James Brown

Album: I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss (2014)
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  • I want you to take me out
    I want you to bring me downtown
    I want you to, oh show me around
    I want you to take me out
    I want you to bring me downtown
    I want you to, oh yeah
    Oh yeah

    I'm only gonna wear my long jacket
    Sit in the corner with a cigarette
    Make you see if I'm, oh yeah
    And if your friends wanna look
    Well that's OK in my book
    It really, oh gets me off my hook

    I want you to take me out
    I want you to bring me downtown
    I want you to, oh show me around
    I want you to take me out
    I want you to bring me downtown
    I want you to, oh yeah

    I know I may look a little square
    I know I look like a wooden chair
    But I got, oh yeah
    And in the words of James Brown
    I'm sorry but I came to get down
    I'm sorry but I, oh yeah

    I told you to take me out
    I told you to bring me downtown
    I told you to, oh show me around
    I want you to take me out
    I want you to bring me downtown
    I want you to, oh yeah

    I know I may look a little square
    I know I look like a wooden chair
    But I got, oh yeah
    And in the words of James Brown
    I'm sorry but I came to get down
    I'm sorry but I, oh yeah Writer/s: JOHN CHARLES REYNOLDS, JUSTIN ALEXANDER ADAMS, SINEAD MARIE BERNARDE O'CONNOR
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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