Genius Lyrics
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
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Guyanese-British singer Eddy Grant’s seminal response to the 1981 Brixton riot; riots that were themselves a response to police brutality, racial tension, and the high level of
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue (Ringbang Mix)
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Boy! / Boy! / Now in the street, there is violence / And-and a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And-and I can't blame all on the sun / Oh no, we gonna
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue (Ron Hester remix)
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Boy! / Boy! / Now in the street, there is violence / And-and a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And-and I can't blame all on the sun / Oh no, we gonna
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue Covers
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue Samples
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Skindred – Electric Avenue
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Now in the street there is violence / And a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And I can't blame all on the sun, oh no / We gonna rock down to Electric
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue Samples
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Umphrey's McGee (Ft. Jennifer Hartswick) – Electric Avenue to Hell
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["Highway to Hell" Instrumental Intro] / ["Electric Avenue" Verse 1] / Now in the street there is violence / And a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And
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Powerman 5000 – Electric Avenue
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We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue / And then we'll take it higher / We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue / And then we'll take it higher / Down in the street there is violence
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Raggadeath – Electric Avenue
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Boy! / [Verse 1] / Now in the street, there is violence / And then a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out the washin' / And then I can't blame it all on the sun, oh no
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Tait – Electric Avenue
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Everybody, yeah / Take it to the streets / Give the people hope, yeah / Give them love / Down in the street there is violence / Lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our
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Shaggy – Electric Avenue (Hot Shot 2020) (Dave Audé Remix)*
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[Intro] / Boy! (Boy! Boy! Boy!) / Boy! (Boy! Boy! Boy!) / [Verse 1] / Down in the street, there is violence / And then a lot of work to be done (to be done) / No place to hang out
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Mighty Good Road – Electric Avenue
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Down in the street there is violence / And a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And can't blame all on the sun / No no we're going to rock down to
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AxCx – Eddy Grant
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Eurgh! Agh! / Out in the streets there is violence / And [?] / [?] kickin’ that bitch / [?] / [Outro] / Be right back?
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Velvet (SWE) – Rock Down To (Electric Avenue)
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Word is out, gets around / There’s a rumble from the sky to the ground / You we’re lost, now you’re found / All the voices make a beautiful sound / So come on, everybody / We are
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Umphrey's McGee – Electric Avenue to Hell Samples
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The Shape Shifters (USA) – Circuit City Samples
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The Kingdom of McChicken – Electric Avenue
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[Intro: Jon Park] / Boy / Boy / [Verse 1: Jon Park] / Down in the street there is violence / And a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And I can't blame
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The Kingdom of McChicken – Electric Avenue
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[Intro: Jon Park] / Boy / Boy / [Verse 1: Jon Park] / Down in the street there is violence / And a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And I can't blame
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Velvet (SWE) – Rock Down To (Electric Avenue) (Radio Version) Samples
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Velvet (SWE) – Rock Down To (Electric Avenue) (Radio Version)
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Ohhhh! Ohhhh! Yeah, yeah / Ohhhh! Ohhhh! Yeah, yeah.) / Word is out, gets around / There's a rumble from the sky to the ground! / You were lost, now you're found / All the voices
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Flatbush Avenue
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Oy / Oy / Down on the street they got bagels / And there's a sale on cream cheese and lox / Nosh on some blintzes and bratwurst / Not in the mood for Jack-In-The-Box / Oy vey / We
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JustinRPG (Ft. Eddy Grant) – Zekrom's Place
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I'm at Zekroms place (Zekrom's place) / (come to electric avenue, and then well take it higher) / (come to electric avenue, and then well take it higher) / I'm at electric avenue
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The Shape Shifters (USA) – Circuit City
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“Circuit City” samples Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” to create a non-sensical playing field for the group.
This song is loaded with references to 80’s and 90’s dance hooks and
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Deerhoof – Love-Lore 2
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Ohio Bell / Complete communications / Complete communications for home, business, and community / Force fields / Tractor beams / Teleportation pods / Antigravity sleds / Tricorders
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Shaggy – Electric Avenue (Hot Shot 2020)
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[Intro] / Boy! / Boy! / [Verse 1] / Down in the street, there is violence / And then a lot of work to be done / No place to hang out the washin' / And then I can't blame all on the
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Velvet (SWE) – Rock Down To (Electric Avenue) Samples
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Refugee Camp All-Stars – Avenues Samples
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Insane Clown Posse – West Vernor Ave.
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After the introductory tracks on the Fearless Fred Fury album, ICP delves into different vignettes about being helpless at first, but finding the resolve to step out and “fite back
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Chief Keef (Ft. CeeLo Green & Tone Trump) – Violence (War for Peace)
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[Hook] / Boy, violence / Violence / Boy, violence / Violence / Boy, violence / Violence / [Verse 1: Chief Keef] / Niggas comin' through with that violence / Niggas mix two with
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Eddy Grant – Another Revolutionary
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Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / Do-do-do-do, do-do-do / Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / Do-do-do-do, do-do-do / Another revolutionary / God, they watch him put his ship to sea / But he can't paddle waves with
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Eddy Grant – Funky Rock 'N' Roll
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Ah, funky rock and roll / Well it's funky in the night and day / Hey, funky rock and roll / And it's funky in the most peculiar way / Hey, funky rock and roll / And it's funky in
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