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The Hustle Lyrics
Look here's a dance
So old it's new
'Cause trash disco is seventies cool
Like country line dance, to some it's fine
Sadly though, you gotta lose your mind
Get organized, discipline is fun
I want to encourage everyone
To coordinate your steps and clap
Avoid the individuality trap
Take a walk on the wild side
And the African-American women sing
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Express yourself
Is a wonderful thought
But right here, right now, please do not!
Specific moves fit the grooves
You got nothing more to prove
Coordinate your steps and clap
Avoid the individuality trap
Take a walk on the wild side
And the African-American women sing
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Hey!
Do it!
Everybody!
Everybody!
Hey!
Do the Hustle!
All the boys and all the girls
Doin' the Hustle
Do the Hustle
Everybody
Get up!
It's fun!
It's free!
So old it's new
'Cause trash disco is seventies cool
Like country line dance, to some it's fine
Sadly though, you gotta lose your mind
Get organized, discipline is fun
I want to encourage everyone
To coordinate your steps and clap
Avoid the individuality trap
Take a walk on the wild side
And the African-American women sing
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Is a wonderful thought
But right here, right now, please do not!
Specific moves fit the grooves
You got nothing more to prove
Coordinate your steps and clap
Avoid the individuality trap
Take a walk on the wild side
And the African-American women sing
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
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The poem takes the form of a hortatory imperative command.
"Do the Hustle," the poet-speaker commands us. And yet in his tone, and also in the light and playful melody we are led to understand implicitly that rather than being an onerous burden upon us, this very thing we've been commanded to do, this "Hustle" will in fact lighten our hearts and spirits.
The second verse is similar. "Do the Hustle," we are again reminded.
The third follows a familiar track as well, and by the fourth fifth and sixth repetitions, we find ourselves in new territory. The very repetition and our place in the schema has made the listener/reader into now an active participant. We ourselves, in singing along, are commanding OTHERS to participate in this hustleatory effort, thus ensuring the further propagation of the activity.
classic. (:
I was going to say that, but you stole my thunder.