Street Parade Lyrics - Singles - Earl King

Street Parade 3:12 Trk 5 

(Earl King Johnson) 

Earl King 

Arr. horns - Allen Toussaint (& tambourine) 

Engnr- Cosimo Matassa, Jazz City Studio, New Orleans 

Remix by M. Sehorn. April 1970 

(original rel) Kansu Records #101 

Musicians: J. Modeliste - drums, G. Porter - bass 

L. Nocentelli - gtr, A. Neville - keyboards 

w/various musicians from Loyola University. 

Transcriber: [email protected] 

I can hear music in the air 

Somewhere, out there 

An I can hear happy voices 

Out-a in the air 

It makes me want to celebrate 

Hm, I feel good inside 

And I wanna get outdo's 

Yes I do, in the open wide 

A big time serenade 

It must be a Street Parade 

And I wanna Second line 

Gonna have a good time, yeah-yea! 

I get excited 

With every beat of the drum 

And make ya wanna get down with it 

Have a whole lotta fun 

We gonna go dance, dancing 

Out in the street 

A-come on baby, oh Lord! 

Girl, just you and me 

A big time serenade 

We're going to a Street Parade 

And we gonna Second line 

We gonna have a good time, time, time 

Hit me! 

Hit me! 

Hit me! 

Yeah! 

Ooo-wee! 

Hit me, Frank! 

Ooo! Yeah, you're right! 

Clap your hands, people 

Let me hear them clap, hm! 

And keep on clappin', now 

Let me hear them rap, yeah 

Ev'rybody, do yo' thing 

No promise what tomorrow brings 

So shake your tambourines 

Like they do down in New Orleans 

A big time serenade 

We goin' to a Street Parade 

And we gonna Second line 

We gonna have a good time, time, time 

Pick 'em up and put 'em down 

Your feets don't stay on the ground 

Shake it and a-don't let go 

Shake it 'til ya can't no mo' 

Ev'rybody move ya hips 

Go on a-let ya backbone slip 

Give it ev'rything you've got 

You've got to move it 

While the groove is hot 

Everybody's got to live it up! 

FADES- 

Nobody wanna get angry 

Guys, shake it up, now! 

Play it now, for me 

Play now, right now, right now. 

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