Ahh...the Name is Bootsy, Baby

Bootsy Collins

Can y'all hear that?
Huh?
Can y'all hear that?
Well clap your hands then
Come on clap your hands!
Come on clap your hands!
Put your hands together
And clap yeah
Now everybody say "Bootsy!"
Bootsy!
(Everybody come on!)
Bootsy!
Bootsy!
Bootsy!
(Everybody come on!)
Bootsy!
Bootsy!
(Say what?)
Bootsy!
Bootsy!

Wait a minute now
The Mothership Connection
Has landed ladies and gentlemen
And I can see stepping from the space craft birds
Along with P-Funk
A group of young men
Originating out of Cincinnati, Ohio
You see Warner Bros. picked them up
Spreaded them about this
United States country
And right now we gonna
Sock ‘em to ya!

Say "Bootsy" again
Everybody come on!
Bootsy!
Bootsy!
Bootsy!
Bootsy!

Introducing ladies and gentlemen
Bootsy's Rubber Band!

Hey Leroy!
There go Bootsy right there!
Where I don't see him, where?
Right over there, right there
I wonder if we can ask him a question
I guess so
I'm kinda scared
Oh man come on!
Wow man you hear that?
This is live man!

Hey Bootsy man, why your face like a star?
Uh the name is Bootsy baba
And the better to funk you my dear

Casper, why we can't see you?
Well, uh, I'm indiscrete ‘cause I lost my sheep
And I does not know where to find them

Hey Bootsy, Bootsy
The eyes, ooh
They like stars too!

I say Bootsy, you're a superstar, right?
Uh, twinkle twinkle baba
Heh heh, I told you man

Now, can I play?
Can I play with you today?
I'd sure like to play
If you think that it's OK

Take all of me
Why not take all of me?
(Bootsy! We wan't Bootsy!)
(Bootsy! We wan't Bootsy!)
(Bootsy! We wan't Bootsy!)

Uh I'll be a snowball in the summer time
Melt all over you
(I ain't never EVER seen nobody like this before)
All of me
Why not take all of me?
I feel like singing today baba

(Bootsy! Gimme some Bootsy!)
(Bootsy! Gimme some Bootsy!)

Uh I got Casper on echoplex
Introducing my bass-cast
With a friendly boo!