Up For The Down Stroke (1974)

{Special editing props to Mike Theiss}

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Track List (links jump to lyrics for that song):

Up For The Down Stroke
Testify
The Goose
I Can Move You (If You Let Me)
I Just Got Back
All Your Goodies Are Gone
Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good
Presence Of A Brain



 "Up For The Down Stroke"
Talking 'bout he's mad
Let's take it to the stage, jack, come on!
And get up for the down stroke

Get up for the down stroke 
Everybody get up
 (x4)

Everybody get up

Get up for the down stroke 
Everybody get up
 (x2)

Party!
It's all about party, yeah!
Having a party, y'all
(get up for the down stroke?) (get down!)
(?.........a joke)
Get down on the real side

Get up for the down stroke 
Everybody get up
 (x6)

Woo, hoo hoo!

I don't care about the cold, baby
Cause when you're hot, you're too much
Cause when you're hot, you're hot
Look at what you've got
 (x7)
(give me the claps)
(let's take it to the bridge)
(What?)
(He talkin' bout he mad!)
(Make it funky now)

Get up for the down stroke 
Everybody get up
 (x8)

Party!

I don't care about the cold, baby
Cause when you're hot, you're too much
Cause when you're hot, you're hot
Look at what you've got
 (x3)

Party, baby party!
You're hot
Let's take it to the stage!

I don't care about the cold, baby
Cause when you're hot, you're too much
Cause when you're hot, you're hot
Look at what you've got (oh, my godfather!)

I don't care about the cold, baby (get up for the down stroke)
Cause when you're hot, you're too much
Cause when you're hot, you're hot
Look at what you've got

I don't care about the cold, baby (get up for the down stroke)
Cause when you're hot, you're too much
Cause when you're hot, you're hot
Look at what you've got



 "Testify"
Friends, inquisitive friends
Are asking me what's come over me
There's been a change (there's been a change)
And it's oh so plain to see

Love just walked in on me
And it's taken me by surprise
Happiness surrounds me
You can see it in my eyes

Now it was just a little while ago
My life was life was incomplete
I was down so doggone low
Had to look up at my feet

Don't you know that 
I just wanna testify
What your love has done for me
I just wanna testify
What your love has done for me

Once I was a hollow man
In which a lonely heart did dwell
You know love came creeping upon me
Bringing life to an empty shell

Now I heard so many times before
That your love could be so bad
I just want to tell you people
It's the best love I ever had

Don't you know that 
I just wanna testify
What your love has done for me
I just wanna testify
What your love has done for me

Ooh, ooh luscious
Sure been delicious to me
 (x2)

I just wanna testify
What your love has done for me
 (x2)



 "The Goose"
Ooh ahh yeah, you're so sweet (x2)
The goose that laid the golden egg
Was an extraordinary goose (real, real goose)
Now just imagine a goose laying a golden egg
Why it's a dream come true (real, real goose)
Oh, you don't lay no golden egg
But you're a golden goose to me
Ooh ahh yeah, you're so sweet

Now I'm as happy as a monkey with a peanut machine
Since I found you (I found you)
Just imagine a monkey with a peanut machine
It's a dream come true (dream come true)
Oh but I don't need no nut machine
Because I'm nuts all over you
Ooh ahh yeah, you're so sweet

Hey babe
Yeah-heah, babe
You're my goose that laid the golden eggs, babe
You're my peanut machine
Hey babe!

Happy as a mole with eagle eyes
Yeah, since I found you (I found you)
Can you imagine a mole with eagle eyes
It's a dream come true, babe (dream come true)
I'm feelin' all right
And I'm feelin' all right babe

Hey hey, I want to talk about it
Wanna step right here in the pocket, babe
Lord, make me want to sing about it
Hey, babe!
Whoo, babe!
You're my monkey peanut machine, babe
Eagle eye
Goose that laid the golden eggs, babe
Ooh ahh yeah, you're so sweet (x17)
Hey, hey
Babe!
Whoo!

You're my goose, baby
What's good for the goose is good to the gander, baby
Funky, love machine, baby
Eagle eyes
Lay the golden eggs, babe (x2)
Feeling so proud, so proud, so proud
Hey, can't you tell by the way I walk
Tell by the way I talk, baby, OW!
Come on baby
Make me feel so good
Oh baby!
Yeah
Oooh, ahhh, yeah you're so sweet
Oh babe
I'm proud as a mole with eagle eyes
And that's feeling some kind of proud, baby
See where I'm coming from?
I'm as happy as a monkey with a peanut machine
Cause you're my goose that laid the golden egg
Come on, goose
Feelin' allright baby (x2)
Hey baby
Crazy bout you babe
Oh, you feel some kind of good
Stick my chest out babe
Ow



 "I Can Move You (If You Let Me)"
Oooh
I can move you if you let me
Ahh, gettin' in touch with you
I can move you if you let me
Ahh, takin' a position
I can move you if you let me
Ahh, trying communication
I can move you if you let me
I'm checking out your signals

Lots of verbal foreplay
Lady, I've got to dig my tone and timing
Two were somewhere, sharing fantasies,
Normal and otherwise

I got to have it
I can move you if you let me
Avoiding sexy doubletalk
I can move you if you let me
Telling me with techniques
I can move you if you let me
Burning like a fever
I can move you if you let me
Whoo! 
Digging on the fire

My imagination is boosting my anticipation
I've got to hold, I've to hold on
Until we're somewhere
Sharing fantasies 
Normal and otherwise

I can move you if you let me
Ahhh, yeah
I can move you if you let me
Ooohh
I can move you if you let me
Ahh, gettin' in touch with you girl
I can move you if you let me
Hey, taking a position
I can move you if you if you let me
Yeah lord, I'm diggin' on the fire
I can move you if you let me
Yeah, yeah, I'm diggin on the fire, diggin on the fire
I can move you if you if you let me
Double talk
I can move you if you let me
technique
I can move you if you if you let me
Diggin on the fire
I can move you if you let me



 "I Just Got Back"
Hey I just got back from another world
It was way, way past another side
It was across the mountain
And through the seas
Past the moon, beyond all the things
That we've dreamed about

You never in your life seen such color
That glows like a twinkle in an eye
Like little things with bells that ring
And budding trees that summer brings back to life again

Whoa, I didn't want to leave
Cause I was having such a good time
But as we go through life
The good times, they seem to end

Wha whoa, wha whoa
Boba dibbidy dib dib dib dib
Bee dee dee da doh

I know I've been gone such such such a long long time
Then I thought about your kids and I changed my mind
I'm glad to come back and help raise your kids
Show you the way, the right way, I feel you gotta live
You'll find all the happiness that mama gave you
That you will have to kill
That's if, if you ever decide you ever want to live



 "All Your Goodies Are Gone"
I am through with you 
Baby, I refuse to be blue
Let hurt put you in the loser's seat (x5)
Let hurt put you behind the wheel (hurt put you in the loser's seat (x3))

Shame, shame on me
For thinking that I could possibly be
The exclusive one of your choice
In this world infested with boys

Well, now I know that I am first on your list
And if I leave, I'm gonna be missed
I cannot take a chance on you
It's so easy to become number two

And I refuse to be blue
Baby, I'm crying you will lose
Let hurt put you in the loser's seat (x5)
Let hurt put you behind the wheel (hurt put you in the loser's seat (x3))

Let you see how does it feel (let you see how it feels)
To be un-for-real (to be un-for-real)
To be without a love of your own (without a love of your own)
And all your goodies are gone (all your goodies are gone)
All your goodies are gone (all your goodies are gone) (x2)

So good 
I had known that your love was good
But it don't rectify how I'll cry
If you ever say goodbye

I refuse to be blue
Meaning, I'm cutting you a-loose
Let hurt put you in the loser's seat (x5)
Let hurt put you behind the wheel (hurt put you in the loser's seat (x3))

Let you see how it feels (let you see how it feels)
To be un-for-real (to be un-for-real)
To be without a love of your own (without a love of your own)
And all your goodies are gone (all your goodies are gone)
All your goodies are gone (all your goodies are gone) (x2)
All your goodies are gone (x10)



 "Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good"
Doo doo doo
Oh, lord
I
I'm gonna be
So good to you
What's good to you is good to me
Yeah

I 
I'm gonna say
All of them things
That just don't say
That make you feel good
Early in the morning

Cause whatever makes my baby feel good
Cause whatever makes my mama feel nice
Y'all sing it for me
Whatever makes my baby feel good
Makes me feel good, too

I
If I were the sun
I'd shine on you
All over you
And I'd make you feel good
Yeah, mm!

I
If I were a songbird
I'd sing for you
Just for you
And I'd make it sound good
Oh, early in the morning

Cause whatever makes my baby feel good
Cause whatever makes my mama feel nice
One more time!
Whatever makes my baby feel good
Makes me feel good, too

Just what I'm talking about, yeah

Doo, doo doo
Oh lord
I
I'm gonna be
So good to you
What's good to you
Is good to me
Early in the morning

Cause whatever makes my baby feel good (I wanna tell you what I'm talking about)
Cause whatever makes my mama feel nice
Whatever makes my baby feel good (Whoo! He's gone home!)
Whatever makes my baby feel good (you can't say too much about her)
Whatever makes my baby feel good (play for my baby, brother)
Whatever makes my baby feel good (x4)



 "Presence Of A Brain"
Mmmm, mmm-hmmm
Have you ever felt the presence of a brain?
We have all seen them standing
Amidst the surprise
Sometimes a man smiles
At what, I often wonder
You can tell he's a thinker 
By the far away look in his eyes
The far away look in his eyes

A penny for his thoughts can make you richer
His eyes can see what other eyes could not
What is the power of Napolean
But not mere power, but magnetism
And magnetism is more intelligent than force
Magnetism is more intelligent than force

A duba diba diba duba duba
Bump bump da day ooh ow

Have you ever felt the presence of a brain?
We have all seen them standing
Amidst the surprise
Sometimes a man smiles
At what, I often wonder
But you can tell he's a thinker 
By the far away look in his eyes
The far away look in his eyes

When god's children start thinking together
Learning to live and love one another, hey, hey, hey
  (x6)