THE FUNKY WESTERN CIVILIZATION (Tonio K.)
come on everybody get on your feet get with the beat there's a brand new dance craze sweeping the nation and it's called the funky western civilization
well there's a riot in the courthouse, there's a fire in the street there's a sinner bein' trampled by a thousand pious feet there's a baby every minute bein' born without a chance now don't that make you want to jump right up and start to dance?
let's do the funky the funky western civilization it's really spunky it's just like summertime vacation you just grab your partner by the hair throw her down and leave her there
they put jesus on a cross, they put a hole in j.f.k. they put hitler in the driver's seat and looked the other way now they've got poison in the water and the whole world in a trance but just because we're hypnotized, that don't mean we can't dance
we've got the funky the funky western civilization it's really spunky it's just like summertime vacation you just drag your partner through the dirt leave him in a world of hurt
you get down get funky get western (own up to it boys and girls) and if you try real hard maybe you can even get, you know, kinda civilized…
(mesdames et messieurs, bon soir. this is joan of arc. tonio has asked me to personally deliver a rather special message. he say he just cannot get enough of my 15th-century wisdom. he say he loves it when i talk with him like this. and after many a saturday night of doing ze funky western civilization together, i know for a fact he agrees with me when i say [in french]: you can bullshit the baker and get the buns you can back out of every deal except one)
this is the funky the funky western civilization it's oh, so very spunky it's just like summertime vacation all's you gotta do is find some little kid somewhere and throw him way up in the air (never mind the parents)
yes it's a funky a funky western civilization and it may seem kinda skunky, you know but it's hitting every nation (all across the universe) that's 'cause all's you gotta do you just grab your partner by the hair throw her down and leave her there
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