Archie Bell & The Drells — Tighten Up

Hi everybody I'm Archie Bell of the Drells Of Houston, Texas We don't only sing but we dance Just as good as we walk In Houston we just started a new dance Called the Tighten Up This is the music We tighten up with First tighten up on the drums Come on now, drummer I want you to tighten it up for me now Oh, yeah Tighten up on that bass now Tighten it up Ha, ha, yeah Now let that guitar fall in Oh, yeah Tighten up on that organ now Yeah, you do the tighten up Yeah, now I said, if you can do it now It sure would be tough Now look here, come on now Now make it mellow Let's tighten it up now Do the tighten up Everybody can do it now So get to it We're gonna tighten up Let's do the tighten up You can do it now So baby, get to it Look to your left now Look to your right Everybody can do it But don't you get too tight Come on and tighten up Let's tighten it up now Let's tighten it up now Tighten it up Do the tighten up Come and tighten it up Tighten it up now Come on now, Billy Tighten it up Oh, yeah (Sock it to 'em) Sock it to me now Tighten it up Come on and tighten up that bass Oh, yeah Now look here I want that guitar to fall in on there Tighten it up now Oh, yeah Now tighten it up, organ Yeah, now everybody tighten it up now Now look here We gonna make it mellow for you now We gonna make it mellow now Tighten it up You can get it Move to your left Move to your right Tighten it up now Everything will be outta sight Come on and tighten it up Tighten it up now You can do it