Patti Austin › Lyrics › Ability to Swing

Everybody's thinking, thinking pretty hard
Everybody's thinkin' about singin' from the heart
If you want my opinion, it doesn't mean a thing
If you haven't got that ability to swing, the ability to swing

Everybody workin', workin' pretty hard
Everybody workin' at singin' from the heart
If you want my opinion, it isn't worth a bean
If you haven't got that ability to swing, the ability to swing

Dreams, take them away
Got it alone, honey, Rome wasn't built in a day
But, now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing, oh no

Everybody talkin', talkin' pretty loud
Everybody lookin' to stand out from the crowd
Gonna break it to you bucko, it isn't worth a bean
If you ain't in possession of the ability to swing, the ability to swing

Friends send them away
Got it alone, honey, Rome wasn't built in a day
Now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing, no no

But each beat take me deeper under
Each beat sends me more to sleep
Heart melts, ice and heart spells danger
Don't hold your breath boy 'cause it don't come cheap, no

Everybody lookin', lookin' pretty hard
Everybody lookin' for a meaning in my art
Gonna give it to you straight boy, it isn't worth a bean
If you haven't got that ability to swing

The ability to swing, the ability to swing, the ability to swing
Gonna give it to you straight boy, it isn't worth a bean
If you haven't got that ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
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