ARETHA FRANKLIN - ROCK STEADY - 1977

Lyrics

Rock steady baby!
That's what I feel now
Let's call this song exactly what it is

Step n' move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride

And while you're movin'
Rock steady
Rock steady baby
Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)

It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left to right
(What it is)
What it is
Is I might be doin'
(What it is)
This funky dance all night
Oh!
(Let me hear ya gotta feelin' in the air)
Oh!
(Gotta a feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oh!
(What fun to take this ride
Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady........ rock steady baby
Rock steady........ rock steady baby

(Instrumental)

Step and move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride
While you're movin' rock steady
Rock steady

Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)
It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left to right
(What it is)
What it is - is I might be doin'
(What it is)
This funky dance all night
Oooooooooooooh
(Wave your hands up in the air
Got the feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oooooooooooooh
(What fun to take this ride)
(Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady baby
Rock steady... woo!
Rock steady

(Instrumental)

(Rock.... steady!... rock... steady!)

(What it is)
It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left and right
(What it is)
What it is
Is I might be doin'
This funky dance all night

Oooooooooooooh
(Wave your hands up in the air)
Oooooooooooooh
(Got a feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oooooooooooooh
(What fun to take this ride)
Oooooooooooooh
(Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady
Steady it baby!
Rock....rock steady baby
FADES-
Baby
(What it is)
Baby baby
(What it is)
Baby
(What it is)
Baby...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ARETHA
• FRANKLIN
• ROCK
• STEADY
• 1977

[thegreatNEb]

this is waaaay too fast. not so rock steady here....more like teetering on the edge

[robertsnowden19]

Aretha rushed on this, but it was still Awesome!

[lovie2000]

@thegreatNEb lol

[totalcontrast]

@thegreatNEb - yeah, but when you actually think about how many times she must have sung this song....then a change is as good as a rest man.

[tomthefunky]

@emsweet11 That's true also.

[emsweet11]

@tomthefunky Yeah, too bad. It might have given them steadier careers once Motown left Detroit. And Aretha would have had a real band to back her up. ;o)

[tomthefunky]

@emsweet11 You're right, but they were essentially a studio band.

[emsweet11]

@tomthefunky The Funk Brothers could do it all.

[tomthefunky]

Her problem was that she sang such a diverse amount of styles of music in her shows, she could never find a band who could play the funky low-down stuff like the Muscle Shoals guys or the New York session aces she recorded her studio albums with. She'd get orchestra musicians who didn't really have a solid grasp of the stuff she was famous for. But those soul musicians she recorded with couldn't play the pop standards as well as the orchestras could. It was a catch-22 she found herself in.

[paulbkiwi]

This is pretty much the tempo it was when it first came out in 1971 - then they 'funked' it up for the mid 70s. She sang it better at that pace six years earlier however.

[vidaa82]

ooh wee re re lookin sex n thick on here. mmmm.

[5699cebolinha]

She can sing at any tempo. Today's rip-synking so called divas should learn from her