Chords for KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo

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_ 1977.
_ _ _ Hey!
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ Hold on.
[F] Hold on.
Hold [C] on.
What's that chord right there?
_ _ [D] _ _ Try [G] that.
Try that.
Try that.
Yeah.
I'm going to stay where I am.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ Yes.
Yeah.
[Gb] Much better.
Beautiful.
OK, let's take it from there.
OK, top, [Eb] please.
Da da da da da da da da da, ba [C] ba.
[Eb] Oh yeah.
Mm. _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] I'm a boogie man.
I'm a boogie man.
[C] Let me on.
[Gm] I'm a boogie man.
I'm a boogie man.
Do [C] what you want.
[Gm] I'm a boogie man.
I'm a boogie man.
[C] Let me [Gm] on.
I'm a boogie man.
I'm a boogie man.
Do what [C] you want.
[Gm] My [C] ideas of when I [Gm] first started to thinking about my music
and what it was going to be like, you know,
it was in the _ 1973 or whatever.
We were going through our first oil crisis.
We had just come out of, you know,
out of a war in Vietnam or whatever.
And I felt, and a lot of music on me on the radio
seemed to be very depressed and very dark.
And so I set out to make music with more energy,
where every cut was high energy, or, you know,
to [Gm] get away from this darkness [Eb] that I was hearing on the radio and stuff.
_ [F] And so that became the beginning of it all.
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You [C] know, when I first heard Get Down Tonight, I knew.
I knew it was a hit.
When I heard that song, I knew it was a hit.
The whole thing just had this vibe.
And I remember I must have had [F] them play it a hundred times
over and over and over and over again.
It was just, it came into me and just took over my [Cm] body
and it just, it just had that kind of [Bb] feeling.
It just wouldn't let you go.
So to now [Em] have a number one [Fm] record in the United [Cm] States and world,
you know, it was like, [Bb] holy shit, you know what I [C] mean?
Dude, you did it, you know?
What we gonna do now?
[Cm] _
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_ [G] Get down tonight, _ _ [Cm] _
get _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
down tonight
I _ came from a company that had mostly one hit wonders.
So when I had my first hit and then second hit and then third hit,
it was like, wow, this is crazy, you know?
And it was almost like nothing could stop us.
You know, nothing could stop it.
I mean, it was just, I didn't have control over it, you know?
And it just, it came out and it just kept happening.
It just kept happening.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ Give [Eb] it up, give it [Ab] up, baby, give it up
Shake, shake, shake, [Bb] shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake [Cm] your booty, _ shake your booty
_ Oh, that's the way I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
like it, uh-huh, that's the way I like it, uh-huh, that's the way I like it, uh-huh
_ [Ab] _ Some writers, like Bob Dylan or some of the Motown songs, had a story.
And I just chose to be more commercial, and I chose that because when I worked in the record store,
people would come in and they wouldn't know the name of a song.
They [Gm] wouldn't know, you know, I heard this song on the radio, but I don't know the name of it, you know what I mean?
So, you know, that somehow was in the back of my head in my writing,
that I wanted to make sure people at least knew exactly what the name of the song was going to be,
and it wasn't going to be too much of a question.
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KC, good to see everybody, have a good night.
KC's [Ab] back.
Ladies and gentlemen, _ KC and our sunshine [G] man.
That's the way I _ like it, uh-huh, _ [Gm] that's the way _ I like it, uh-huh, that's the way _ I like it, uh-huh, _ that's the way [Cm] I like it, uh-huh, that's the way I like it, uh-huh
This is 2012 right now, and you turn on the radio, and whether it's Flo Rida or [Fm]
Pitbull or [Cm] Beyonce,
I mean, or just if you go on and on, they're all disco records, they're all [Fm] this sound that we started 40 years [Cm] ago. _ _
Every [G] major artist in the [Cm] world was influenced by this sound [G] that we started. _ _ _
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