[ti:Calabama (Vault Raw)] [ar:Prince] [al:Calabama] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Calabama (Vault Raw) - Prince [00:00.69]Lyrics by:Prince [00:01.20]Composed by:Prince [00:01.72]Produced by:Prince [00:02.24]Woo [00:06.26]Uh uh uh [00:07.81]Come on [00:10.18]All the pretty ladies [00:11.09]Just clap your hands [00:12.32]Clap your hands clap your hands [00:14.37]All the pretty ladies [00:15.30]Just clap your hands [00:18.74]I just got some news today [00:20.68]Everything I wished for came my way [00:22.74]Love and peace and big money [00:24.76]More new members in the family [00:26.90]Haters finally dropped their guns [00:28.87]Wasn't loaded anyway scared no one [00:30.98]Went from ten bodyguards to none [00:32.95]If they don't read then posse no fun [00:34.98]But here come Calabama [00:36.19]Talkin' mo' stuff [00:37.14]I guess a hundred million records ain't enough [00:39.24]I started countin' from the first to last [00:41.35]Anybody dope can [00:43.18]Stay quiet while I bring the noise [00:45.37]We just got some brand new toys [00:47.53]If y'all ready to show me love [00:49.62]Watch Calabama get bugged [00:53.01]Uh [00:53.79]All the pretty ladies just clap your hands [00:57.69]All the funky brothers dance to my band [01:01.35]Ha NPG cuttin' up your rug [01:04.83]Uh watch Calabama get bugged [01:08.16]Purple coated flattery [01:10.14]Drum machine electricity [01:12.22]Every time I look I see another facsimile [01:16.37]Pick and drumstick not in hand [01:18.44]See no music on the stand [01:20.45]Grab a partner gather 'round [01:22.48]This is how we all get down [01:26.53]Woo all the pretty ladies just clap your hands [01:30.77]All the funky brothers dance to my band [01:33.92]NPG NPG cuttin' up your rug [01:38.63]Uh lawd watch Calabama get bugged c'mon [01:42.82]Horns [01:45.59]Uh [01:49.00]Horns [01:53.01]Uh uh [01:57.36]Ha like a rip shot on a new roost joint uh [02:00.03]My bands tight yeah anointed all natural [02:03.94]Pass my tape go straight to jail [02:05.68]And another thing when I sing [02:07.17]Black and white hold hands [02:08.21]Stop clappin' when we enter the jam [02:09.72]Black dance if you wanna just clap your hands here we come [02:12.37]Y'all uh Prince and the band good god [02:16.14]All the pretty ladies just clap your hands [02:20.23]All the funky brothers dance to my band [02:23.17]Uh New Power G yeah we got a new drug [02:27.29]Here we come y'all Prince and the band look out [02:30.60]Happy 'cause we just got paid [02:32.61]Free from all contracts chillin' in the shade of the sun's light [02:35.73]Ah we got it right distribute your own [02:37.69]Make a mill overnight before the tax come [02:39.87]Quick buy some land don't build nothin' [02:41.97]Just clap your hands don't build nothin' just clap your hands [02:44.77]Here we come [02:45.31]Y'all uh Prince and the band [02:50.62]Prince and the band [02:54.20]Hit me now [02:55.27]Record labels used to be a friend of mine [02:57.28]Now they're just a monument of wasted time [02:59.15]Sell a million records make a dollar a pop [03:01.24]You're still unrecouped when your band get dropped [03:03.41]Got your own label but you're giving them half [03:05.41]Expenses off the top who's taking a bath? [03:07.45]Seven years of prime life it's only the name [03:09.45]Is what you pay to keep yourself a slave to that game [03:11.59]What you can't do alone is not worth the fame [03:15.63]All of y'all get older but I still look the same [03:19.43]Too funky [03:21.74]Y'all can't understand [03:23.78]Just clap your hands just clap your hands [03:26.61]Uh from Prince and the band