[Repeat: x4]
Tear the roof off, we're gonna tear the roof off the mother, sucker
Tear the roof off the sucker
[Chorus: x2]
You've got a real type of thing going down, gettin' down
There's a whole lot of rhythm going round
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
[Chorus: x2]
[Repeat: x2]
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
We're gonna turn this mother out
We're gonna turn this mother out
[Chorus x4]
[Repeat: x7]
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk (let us in we'll tear this mother out)
We gotta have that funk
[Repeat: x2]
Ow, we want the funk (we're gonna turn this mother out)
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk (we're gonna turn this mother out)
We gotta have that funk
[Repeat: x2]
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk (let us in we'll tear this mother out)
We gotta have that funk
[Repeat: x2]
We want the funk
Give up the funk
We need the funk
We gotta have that funk
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, ow!
[Chorus: x3]
Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk (let us in we'll tear this mother out)