[Intro: James Brown]
Hit it

How you feeling, brother
(Feeling good)
You feel good?
Play so much 'bone, brother!
How you feel, man?
(I feel all right)
I won't call your name
I don't want no people to know you're in here
How you feeling, brother?
Hey, Jab! Sure getting down
Looka here, ha!

[Chorus: James Brown & The J.B.'s]
We're gonna have a funky good time
We're gonna have a funky good time
We're gonna have a funky good time
We're gonna have a funky good time

[Bridge: James Brown, Fred Wesley, The J.B.'s]
Let's take 'em up, Fred
We gotta take you higher
Uh, ho, alright, gonna do it again
You wanna do it again
We gotta take you higher
Ha, uh
Brother?
(Yeah?)
Now I want everybody
To let Fred blow about two choruses
Then I'm gonna wave you in
And let's go into what we did just now
Alright?
(Alright! Alright!)
I wanna get that fella with the little horn over there...
Fred, can you take us higher?
(Yeah)
Take us higher
(Alright)
Fred, Fred, Fred
[Fred Wesley trombone solo]

[Bridge: James Brown]
Fred!
Give a big round of applause for Fred, yeah Lord
You know what?
When I hear a groove like this groove
Oh, it say I got to take you higher
Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah
Like way up yonder, man
And things
Looka here
Someone got a groove like this
You know, you know, know
I need the grit, got the grit
Gonna eat, got the grit
Get the job, got the job
Need the grit, got the grit
Now, Fred, you know
I believe, hey, Fred Thomas, brother
I'm getting ready to wave y'all in
Y'know what?
I feel so down, I need to get down
In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D
(Go and get down, yeah)
In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D
Need to get in D
Dog the D, down D
Funky D, stankin' D
Down D!
[Band changes key from F to D]

Get on down
Morgan Lamp, you like D!
That make him think about Macon, The Big M

Look here, look at that
This you over there?
(Who is that cat?)
You better sing one verse for us
What we gotta do

[Chorus: James Brown & The J.B.'s]
We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah
We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah
We gotta have a funky good time

[Outro: James Brown, Fred Wesley]
I didn't know you were singing, Fred
(I'm moanin')
Don't moan so much, brother
Don't moan so much!
We gotta have a funky good time
Take 'em up then
We gotta take you higher
Wait a minute
Now who you say that was over there?
(I dunno, mangy looking cat
I know that I seen him somewhere
Is that Maceo?)
He's doing everything over there
(Maceo?)
Is it who
(Maceo, you know, like Maceo, won't you blow?)
Oh, yeah, Maceo...