Rhythm is Gonna Get You Lyrics

O eh, o eh
O eh, oo, aah
O eh, o, eh
O eh, oo, aah
Yah, yeah, goh

[Verse 1]
At night
When you turn off all the lights
There's no place that you can hide
Oh no
The rhythm is gonna get'cha

In bed
Throw the covers on your head
You pretend like you are dead
But I know it
The rhythm is gonna get'cha

[Chorus]
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get you
The rhythm is gonna get you tonight

[Verse 2]
No way
You can fight it every day
But no matter what you say
You know it
The rhythm is gonna get'cha
No clue
Of what's happening to you
And before this night is through
Ooh, baby
The rhythm is gonna get'cha

O eh, o eh
O eh, oo aah
O eh, o eh
O eh, oo aah
Yah, yeah, goh

[Chorus]
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get you
The rhythm is gonna get you tonight

Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get you
The rhythm is gonna get you
Rhythm is gonna get'cha
Rhythm is gonna get'cha

(Na na na na na na na na)
The rhythm is gonna get you
(Na na na na na na na na)
Rhythm is gonna get'cha (na na na na na na na na)
Rhythm is gonna get'cha (na na na na na na na na)
(Na na na na na na na na)
The rhythm is gonna get you tonight!

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Genius Annotation

Rhythm is Gonna Get You peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #27 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music\Club Play chart in 1987.

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Were any other song titles considered instead of “Rhythm is Gonna Get You”?
Genius Answer

Yes! According to Patch, the original song title was called “The Bogeyman’s Gonna Get You”. Estefan had this to say about that song title:

My drummer, who co-wrote it, came to us with those lyrics and I said, ‘Nuh-uh. I am not singing the Boogeyman’s gonna get you!"

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