C'mon!      Turn the beat around   Love to hear the percussion   Turn it upside down   Love to hear the percussion   Love to hear it      Blow horns you sure sound pretty   Your violins keep movin' to the nitty gritty   When you hear the scratch of the guitars scratchin'   Then you'll know that rhythm carries all the action   Woah!      Turn the beat around (turn the beat around)   Love to hear the percussion (mah mah mah...)   Turn it upside down   Love to hear the percussion   Love to hear it      Flute player play your flute 'cause   I know that you want to get your thing off   But you see I've made up my mind about it   It's got to be the rhythm, no doubt about it, woah woah      'Cause when the guitar player start playing   With the syncopated rhythm, with the scratch, scratch, scratch   Makes me wanna move my body yeah, yeah, yeah   And when the drummer starts beating that beat   He nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm   With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey      Turn the beat around(turn the beat around)   Love to hear the percussion   Turn it upside down   Love to hear the percussion   Love to hear it   Ohhhh!!!....!      Turn the beat around   Love to hear the percussion   Turn it upside down   Love to hear the percussion   Love to hear it   Turn the beat around!