Lyrics to
Do What You Wanna

This version of Do What You Wanna was released by The Jacksons in 1977.

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Do what you wanna
And do it
Whenever I convince you
Stick to it

Keep on striving
Towards your goals
If it’s right
Don’t let it go
Live the life

You wanna live
Don’t be phony
Just be real
People-be yourself
Don’t be nobody -nobody else

Don’t let nobody
Fool you around
Tryin’ to turn your life
Upside down

Just be strong in your field
And when you reach the top
Happily you will live
People-be yourself
Don’t be nobody -nobody else

People-be yourself
Don’t be nobody -nobody else
I’m telling you people-be yourself
Don’t be nobody-nobody else

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The lyrics for Do What You Wanna are defined as the words making up the song released by The Jacksons in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Do What You Wanna have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Jacksons and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Do What You Wanna by The Jacksons if you think through it. 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 Do What You Wanna" means the words set to the music of Do What You Wanna, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jacksons. 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 Do What You Wanna and the lyrics to Do What You Wanna are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jacksons who came here looking just for the lyrics to Do What You Wanna, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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