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Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker Lyrics by Boney M.

1989

[Intro]
Josephine, you're the queen, ah-ah
Josephine Baker, ah-ah-ah
What a scene, Josephine, on the stage, let it go
Josephine, you're the queen
Josephine, you're the queen, ah-ah (Josephine Baker)
Josephine Baker, ah-ah-ah (born in St. Louis 1906)
What a scene, Josephine on the stage, let it go (died in Paris 1974)
Josephine, you're the queen (ambition: the world)
[Verse 1]
Way back in the thirties
Long before you were born
There was a girl called Josephine
(Josephine, Josephine, Josephine)
Just a skinny little black girl
'cause when she danced, she shook the world
Never heard of self-control, but to the floor in bed just slow
(Everybody stopped and stared but Josephine, she didn't care)
[Chorus]
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(lose your self-control, feel it in your soul)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(s'il vous plaît ma sœur, vous êtes très très belle)
[Verse 2]
Josephine arrived in Paris
She took to the stage
Mouths fell open, and hearts were broken
And many a word were spoken in rage
Who is that skinny little black girl?
Does anybody know her name?
She dances like she doesn't have a care in the world
She dances like she has no shame
[Chorus]
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(lose your self-control, feel it in your soul)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(s'il vous plaît ma sœur, vous êtes très très belle)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(lose your self-control, feel it in your soul)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine
(oh la la ç'est bon, tant fort tant et tant)
[Bridge]
Josephine, you're the queen, ah-ah (just after war broke out in Europe, Josephine disappeared)
Josephine Baker, ah-ah-ah (for two years, no-one knew her whereabouts)
What a scene, Josephine, on the stage, let it go (when she returned, she was awarded the Purple Heart)
Josephine, you're the queen (for service to her country)
[Chorus]
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(lose your self-control, feel it in your soul)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(s'il vous plaît ma sœur, vous êtes très très belle)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine Baker
(lose your self-control, feel it in your soul)
Everybody wants to dance like Josephine
(oh la la ç'est bon, tant fort tant et tant)
Credits
Boney M.

Boney M.

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