The Beat Goes On

My daughter's with me tonight

She's going to get up and sing "The Beat Goes On"

Now this is her first time in front of an audience

Number one, she's twelve-and-a-half years old

And she's drunk

Now, immediately that makes it kind of tough

This is our daughter Cathy, ladies and gentlemen

Come on, come on, come on for her

Yay

Now

You all right? (Yeah)

You're gonna do it? (Yeah)

Beauty

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain

La dee da dee dee, la dee da dee da

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh

History has banned that stage, uh huh

The miniskirt's the current thing, uh huh

Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

And the beat goes on

The beat goes on

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain

La dee da dee dee, la de da dee da

The grocery store's a supermart, uh huh

Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh

Men still keep on marching off to war

Electrically they keep their baseball score

And the beat goes on

The beat goes on

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain

La dee da dee dee, la dee da dee da