Shinin' On

Album: Shinin' On (1974)
Charted: 11
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  • We are winners and losers, bed fellow choosers,
    Put here to pass by the times
    We are space-age sailors, all had our failures,
    Now everybody gonna shine

    Keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin' on

    See the fire within them burnin',
    Touch the fire make me feel so fine
    Keep the fire within you livin'
    Everybody gonna' shine, shine, shine

    Keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', shinin' on
    Keep it shinin' on

    Shinin' on
    Shinin' on

    What?
    Well, alright

    Keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', shinin' on
    Keep it shinin' on

    Keep it shinin' on, shinin' on, shinin' on

    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on
    Keep it shinin', keep it shinin', keep it shinin' on Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 7th 1974, "Shinin' On" by Grand Funk entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #63; and on August 18th, 1974 it peaked at #11 (for 1 week) and also spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #13 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart...
    The week that "Shinin' On" entered the Top 100 their preceding charted record, "The Loco-Motion", was at #60 (ten weeks earlier on April 28th, 1974, "The Loco-Motion" had peaked at #1 for two weeks).
  • Tosh from New Alex, PaFWIW;
    Back in the 70's saw a piggyback rail car goin' down the highway.
    On the side was the name "Grand Trunk Western".
    Duh, I thought, that must be what inspired the name for the band.
  • Jim from Somewhere, PaThe band (from what I heard back in the 70's), Took they'er name from the MI's, "Grand Trunk Railroad"
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