Lyrics to
Footstompin’ Music

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Come on everybody
We’re gonna have a good time
Gimme all the love that’s in ya
I’m gonna give ya mine

I wanna hear some hand clappin
I want you to get in the groove
We’re gonna play this footstompin’ music
Everybody get up and groove

Does everybody want to?
Does everybody want to?
Does everybody want to?

Everybody want to
Everybody want to
Everybody want to

Come on, right now
Everybody

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Grand Funk Railroad has released many songs over the years besides Footstompin’ Music. 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.

About Lyrics and Footstompin’ Music by Grand Funk Railroad

The lyrics for Footstompin’ Music are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Footstompin’ Music have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Footstompin’ Music - Grand Funk Railroad and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Footstompin’ Music by Grand Funk Railroad in multiple ways. 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 Footstompin’ Music" means the words set to the music of Footstompin’ Music, 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 Footstompin’ Music and the lyrics to Footstompin’ Music 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 Footstompin’ Music, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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