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Tighten Up Lyrics By Archie Bell The Drells

    hi everybody
    i’m archie bell of the drells
    from 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 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 me now
    tighten it up
    come on and tighten up that bass
    oh yeah
    now look here
    i want that
    to fall in on there
    tighten it up now
    oh yeah
    now tighten it up organ

    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

    Artist: Archie Bell The Drells

    Year: 1968

    Decade: 60s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 124