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Artist: Eddy Grant
Suggested Track: Electric Avenue

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Boy
Boy

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 all on the sun, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Workin' so hard like a soldier
Can't afford a thing on TV
Deep in my heart I'm a warrior
Can't get food for them kid, good God

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Who is to blame in one country
Never can get to the one
Dealin' in multiplication
And they still can't feed everyone, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher, oh no
We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher, oh

Out in the street
Out in the street
Out in the daytime
Out in the night

Oh, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Out in the street
Out in the street
Out in the playground
In the dark side of town

Oh, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher, hey
We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue (oh, yeah)
And then we'll take it higher
Rocking in the daytime (we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue)
Rocking in the nighttime (And then we'll take it higher)
Rocking in Miami, ma-ma-me (Electric Avenue)
(And then we'll take it higher) (Electric Avenue)
(We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue)
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Eddy Grant – Telepathy
Telepathy, telepathy, ah / Na, na, na, oh-oh-oh-oh / Telepathy, telepathy, ah / Whoo! / You wanna know how I know all about you / You wanna know if it's something special / You don
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I'm romancing the stone / Never leaving your poor heart alone / Every night and every day / Gonna love the hurting away / I'm romancing the stone / Never leaving your poor heart
Eddy Grant – Ire Harry
Lives in Brixton / And he's got a degree / Ire Harry, Ire / He just wanna be free / Born a loser / See him walking the streets / Never too sure, too sure / About where he'll sleep
Eddy Grant – I Love to Truck
Yeah! / I truck around / Some people say I can't be good for you / I got myself / Too many love affairs to care for you / Oh-whoa-whoa, I love to truck / But even so, my darling, I
Eddy Grant – Another Revolutionary
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
Eddy Grant – We Got to Work It Out
Been in rage, but feeling better / Something to talk about / I never knew but I discovered / Your love is all around town / Hey, hey, hey / Caught you bang in the middle of your
Eddy Grant – Welcome to La Tigre
Giovanni he got fixed in a minute / Woe he never got smart; Tina started fooling around / Race didn't have nothing to do with it / She loved who he loved; she started fooling
Eddy Grant – Political Bassa-Bassa
Political bassa, yeah / Political bassa / Ain't too convinced / It's political bassa-bassa / Political bassa, yeah / Political bassa / Ain't too convinced / It's political bassa-
Eddy Grant – Kill 'Em with Kindness
Don't give up / It's no use losing out / Don't get uptight in this moral fight / Just one way to go / Before you fall, think / Your back's against the wall / Zero's to lose and if
Eddy Grant – I Don't Wanna Dance
I don't wanna dance / Dance with you baby no more / I'll never do something to hurt you, though / Oh but the feeling is bad / The feeling is bad / I love your personality / But I
Eddy Grant – Walking on Sunshine
Do it, oh, do it / Oh, do it, do it / Oh, do it / Looking through the morning dew / A smoking mountain's nothing new / Lead me to the mountain top / And we'll work until it's time
Eddy Grant – In L.A.
I was the hero at the movies tonight / I watched 1,000 Red Indians fight / I watched them let their arrows go / Into some fresh Red Indian snow / I begged a girl who was-a living
Eddy Grant – It's All in You
Little by little you show to me / One more side of your personality / I always knew that somewhere in your heart / You'd hurt when we were torn apart / But of late I been hearing
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You know, girl, I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna make you feel good tonight / Oh, girl, I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna
Eddy Grant – Till I Can't Take Love No More
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to say / I never had a love to measure up to your love / And all the little ways that you been good to me / I've never been afraid, oh
Eddy Grant – Race Hate
Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Oy, did you hear on the radio today / Man shot
Eddy Grant – Ugly Woman
If you want to be happy and live a king's life / Never make a pretty woman your wife / If you want to be happy and live a king's life / Never make a pretty woman your wife / All
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Oh... / You don't know till you been in my corner / Know till you been in my shoes / Know if your love is for true, yeah / Only them who feel it knows / Only them who feel it knows
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Oh, my turn to love you / And I got to do, got to do / Do, do, do it, baby, do it, child / My turn to love you / And I got to do, got to do / Oh, my turn to love you / And I got to
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Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / I gotta get some village life / When my body need a lover / I gotta get some village life / When my body need a lover / Don't put too
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Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Every time you turn your
Eddy Grant – Blue Wave
When the morning dew says goodbye to you / And the sky's forever blue / Blue wave, what's there to do / Well, what do you think? Oh, my life / You're my love supreme, climax to my
Eddy Grant – Just Imagine I'm Loving You
Oh... / Don't let your mother tell you no / Oh, darling, baby, in your dreams tonight / Tell me what you gonna do / Use me as your pillow and, darling / Just imagine I'm loving you
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Ah-ah-ah-ah, my love, my love / (Yeah, yeah, yeah, darling, yeah) / Feel I'm still, whoo, feel I'm still / In love with you / Ah-ah-ah-ah, my love, my love / (Yeah, darling, yeah
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