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