PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
039 - Rhythm Of Life
Verse 1
Dad-dy start-ed out in San-Fran-cis-co,
toot-in’ on his trum-pet loud and mean,
sud-den-ly a voice said, ‘Go forth Dad-dy
spread the pic-ture on a wid-er screen!’
And the voice said, ‘Broth-er, there’s a mil-lion rea-sons
why you should be glad in all four sea-sons!
Hit the road, Dad-dy, leave your trouble and strife,
spread the re-li-gion of the rhythm of life!’
Chorus
And the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat,
puts a tin-gle in your fin-gers, and a tin-gle in your feet!
rhy-thm in the house is rhy-thm in the street, and
the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat!
Chorus (with Alternate Chorus)
[Soprano/Alto] And the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat,
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the rhythm of life.
[Soprano/Alto] puts a tin-gle in your fin-gers and a tin-gle in your feet!
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the pow - er - ful beat.
[Soprano/Alto] Rhy-thm in the house is rhy-thm in the street, and
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the tin - gle in your fin – gers
[Soprano/Alto] the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat!
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the tin-gle in your feet!
Verse 2
[Bass/Tenor] Dad-dy spread the gos-pel in Mil-wau-kee;
Took his walk-ie talk-ie to Rock-y Ridge!
[Soprano/Alto] Blew him-self to Can-ton, then to Scran-ton,
‘till he lan-ded un-der Man-hat-tan bridge.
[All] Dad-dy was the new sen-sa-tion,
Got him-self a con-gre-ga-tion,
Built a qui-et op-er-a-tion
Down here be-low!
Bridge
Flip your wings and fly to Dad-dy,
Flip your wings and fly to Dad-dy,
Flip your wings and fly to Dad-dy,
Fly, fly, fly to Dad-dy.
Take a dive and swim to Dad-dy,
Take a dive and swim to Dad-dy,
Take a dive and swim to Dad-dy,
Swi-m, swi-m, swim to Dad-dy.
Alternate Chorus
To feel the rhy-thm of life.
To feel the pow-er-ful beat.
To feel the tin-gle in your fin-gers.
To feel the tin-gle in your feet!
Chorus (with vocal layering)
[Soprano/Alto] And the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat,
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the rhythm of life.
[Soprano/Alto] puts a tin-gle in your fin-gers and a tin-gle in your feet!
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the pow - er - ful beat.
[Soprano/Alto] Rhy-thm in the house is rhy-thm in the street, and
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the tin - gle in your fin – gers
[Soprano/Alto] the rhy-thm of life is a pow-er-ful beat!
[Bass/Tenor] To feel the tin-gle in your feet!
Outtro
[All] DAD-DY WE’VE GOT THE [RHYTHM OF LIFE] -
[OF LIFE] - [OF LIFE] - [OF LIFE]
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! Y-E-A-H!!
From the 1966 musical "Sweet Charity".