Good Ol' Days

(album: Urban Rapsody - 1997)

Good ol' days
Good ol' days
The good ol' days
Sha-da-da-dwee-dwee-dwee
Ooh wee, ooh wee
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(Pink champagne, in the good ol' days)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(In the good ol' days, in the good ol' days, good ol' days)

Everybody had a good time
Everybody drank the best wine
We played funk and music in the sunshine
And people danced everywhere
Didn't nobody have to be strapped
Never had to worry 'bout a rat-tat-tat
Gunshot going down
'Cause all you ever heard was a funky sound
I was living in the big time
So were good friends of mine
And we never stole a beat to eat
We've been busting out of the ghetto streets (Busting out!)
In the '80s it was all good (All good)
Living high in Hollywood
Me and some very good friends of mine
Charlie and George, Dr. Funkenstein, yeah

It was all good, in the good ol' days
We were

We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(In the good ol' days, in the good ol' days)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(In the good ol' days, in the good ol' days)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(In the good ol' days, in the good ol' days)

Everybody had a sneak peek (Right)
Everybody was a super freak (For real)
Live on stage in '81
Teena Marie and I had just begun
I was starting to get higher (Higher)
We were burning up with Fire & Desire
But I just couldn't hang around
I guess that's why she called me Casanova Brown (Right)
I was throwing down all night (All night)
Funk was alive, and so was I
Even all the Mary Jane Girls and me
Couldn't see the fog that was soon to be
The devil handed me a glass pipe
Soon as I awoke, I was out of sight (I was gone)
Years went by while I was away
But now I'm back and I'm here to stay

We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(In the good ol' days, in the good ol' days)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(It was all good, in the good ol' days)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(Dance in the sunshine)

Parliament, (In my house), Gap Band, (Yearning for your love)
Maze and Frankie, Con Funk Shun, Lakeside
Stone City Band keep funking
Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, in the good ol' days
Bar-Kays, Cameo, yeah, I remember
(We're gonna give it to you, give it to you, give it to you, give it to you)
I remember

We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(Sha-da-da-dwee-dwee-dwee, nananana, ooh)
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne
(Just grooving, and grooving, and groovin')
We were grooving with the Mary Jane
Kicking back drinking pink champagne