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Fake Your Way to the Top Lyrics by Cleavant Derricks (actor)

Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album

1982

[Verse 1: JIMMY]
Thirteen years of solid gold platters
Rising cost and cocktail chatter
Fat deejays, stereophonic sound
Oh, baby
The game of hits goes around and around
[Chorus: JIMMY, LORRELL, DEENA, EFFIE & (DREAMETTES)]
But you can fake your way to the top
'Round and around
Try that part, baby
'Round and around
Fake your way to the top
'Round and around
You fell right in there, sweetheart
You can fake your way to the top
'Round and around
I knew you'd have it!
And it's always real, so real
(Always so real)
Yeah, when you're comin' down
[Interlude: ANNOUNCER]
Ladies and gentlemen, the wildest man in show business, James "Thunder" Early!
[Refrain: JIMMY & DREAMETTES]
Help me, Jesus!
(Help me, Jesus!)
Help me, help me, Jesus!
(Help me, Jesus!)
Help me, help me, Jesus!
(Help me, Jesus!)
Help me, Jesus!
Up, back up, back up
(All the way up)
Yeah yeah yeah back to number one
Back to number one
[Bridge: JIMMY & DREAMETTES]
I know what's happenin'
(Doo, doot, doo doo)
I've been around
Workin' my way
(Doo, doot, doo doo)
Through every town
I made my livin'
(Doo, doot, doo doo)
Yes, I do
Off of my sound
(Doo, doot, doo doo)
And the game of hits
Here we go
Goes around and around and a—
(Around and around and around and around and around and around)
Oh baby
Oh!
[Chorus: JIMMY, DREAMETTES]
You can fake your way to the top
('Round and around)
Oh!
Blow your horn!
Fake your way to the top
('Round and around)
Yeah!
Don't you know I faked my way to the top
('Round and around)
Yes, I did
And it's always real, so real
(Always so real)
Oh
[Refrain: JIMMY, DREAMETTES]
(Help me, Jesus!)
Help me, help me Jesus!
(Help me, Jesus!)
Help me, help me Jesus!
(Help me, Jesus!)
[Outro: JIMMY, DREAMETTES]
Ow
(Fake my way to the top)
Yeah! Yeah!
Credits
Cleavant Derricks (actor)

Cleavant Derricks (actor)

About “Fake Your Way to the Top” by Cleavant Derricks (actor)

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