Lyrics to
Can You Do It

This version of Can You Do It was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1976.

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(Open mike in the studio …)
LSD Duckblind.
Alright. Wait a minute …
(False start …)
I …
(Starting over …)
One, … … Two, … …
One, … Two, …
One, Two, Three, Four.

I … went to a dance, ah, just the other night.
Other night, other night, other night.
The dance they was doin’ there, it was out of sight.
Out-a-sight, out-a-sight, out-a-sight.
I knew right away, yeah, that there was nothing to it.
Nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it.
I could tell right away, oh boy, even I could do it.
Even I could do it, I could do it, I could do it.

Well, first step: you got to move to the left.
Second step: you got to go for yourself.
Third step: well, you’re doin’ alright.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

Grab yourself a partner, then you start it movin’ too.
To and fro, to and fro, to and fro.
The next thing you know, hey, you want to do it some more.
Do it some more, do it some more, do it some more.
I knew right away, yeah, that there was nothing to it.
Nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it.
I could tell right away, oh boy, even I could do it.
Even I could do it, I could do it, I could do it.

Yeah, first step: you got to move to the left.
Second step: you got to go for yourself.
Third step: well, you’re doin’ alright.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

You grab yourself a partner, then you start it movin’ too.
To and fro, to and fro, to and fro.
You get out on the floor and start doin’ it some more.
Do it some more, do it some more, do it some more.
I knew right away, yeah, that there was nothing to it.
Nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it.
I could tell right away, oh boy, even I could do it.
Even I could do it, I could do it, I could do it.

I went to a dance just the other night.
Other night, other night, other night.
The dance they was doin’, yeah, it was out of sight.
Out-a-sight, out-a-sight, out-a-sight.
I knew right away, yeah, there was nothing to it.
Nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it, nothin’ to it.
I could tell right away, oh boy, even I could do it.
Even I could do it, I could do it, I could do it.

I went to the dance.
I went to the dance.

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Grand Funk Railroad has released many songs over the years besides Can You Do It. Grand Funk Railroad released songs from 1969 to 1983 spanning across albums like On Time, Grand Funk, Closer To Home, Survival, E Pluribus Funk, Phoenix, We're An American Band, All The Girls In The World Beware!!, Shinin' On, Good Singin', Good Playin', Born To Die, Grand Funk Lives, and What's Funk?. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Grand Funk Railroad.

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About Lyrics and Can You Do It by Grand Funk Railroad

When you decide to study the lyrics to Can You Do It, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Some of the lyrics to Can You Do It have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Grand Funk Railroad and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Can You Do It if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Can You Do It" means the words set to the music of Can You Do It, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Can You Do It and the lyrics to Can You Do It are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to Can You Do It, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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