Tippu Tip or Tib (1837 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī, (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي), was a Swahili-Zanzibari trader. He was famously known as Tippu Tib after an eye disease which made him blind. A notorious slave trader, plantation owner and governor, who worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar, he led many trading expeditions into east-central Africa, involving the slave trade and ivory trade. He constructed profitable trading posts that reached deep into Central Africa.
He built himself a trading empire that he then translated into clove plantations on Zanzibar. Abdul Sheriff reports that when he left for his twelve years of "empire building" on the mainland, he had no plantations of his own. However, by 1895, he had acquired "seven shambas [plantations] and 10,000 slaves."
His mother, Bint Habib bin Bushir, was a Muscat Arab of the ruling class. His father and paternal grandfather were coastal Swahili who had taken part in the earliest trading expeditions to the interior. His paternal great-grandmother, wife of Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi was the daughter of Juma bin Mohammed el Nebhani, a member of a respected Muscat (Oman) family, and an African woman from the village of Mbwa Maji, a small village south of what would later become the German capital of Dar es Salaam.
Tipu Sultan (November 1750, Devanahalli – 4 May 1799, Seringapatam), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the son of Hyder Ali, at that time an officer in the Mysorean army, and his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-Nissa. He was given a number of honorific titles, and was referred to as Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab, Tipu Saheb, Bahadur Khan Tipu Sultan or Fatih Ali Khan Tipu Sultan Bahadur.
During Tipu's childhood, his father rose to take power in Mysore, and Tipu took over rule of the kingdom upon his father's death. In addition to his role as ruler, he was a scholar, soldier, and poet. He was a devout Muslim but the majority of his subjects were Hindus. At the request of the French, he built a church, the first in Mysore. He was proficient in many languages. In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, rulers of Malabar, Coorg, Bednur, Carnatic, and Travancore. He won important victories against the British in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and negotiated the 1784 Treaty of Mangalore with them after his father died the previous year.
Chorus:
When I hear music, it makes me dance
You got the music, heres my chance
Repeat (1x)
Went to the disco, couldn't belive my eyes
I looked on the dance floor, saw so many guys
I asked myself, could this really be
Whether it is or not, I'm going to see
Chorus
The guys look really fine, they almost blew my mind
They almost blew my mind
The guys looked really good, just like I knew they would
And I'm gonna get a man if I get a chance
Here's my chance
Chorus (2x)
The night is still young and I'm gonna have some fun
And I'm in a trance, all I want to do is dance
Watch me dance
Everybody's having fun, and the musics number one
And the lights shining bright, there's a party here tonight
Chorus
It stated getting late, the night was really great
When I hear music, give me a chance, heres your chance
When I hear music, I wanna dance
You got the music, I'm gonna dance
Jumping music, slick deejays, fog machines and laser rays
Chorus:
Lookout weekend cause, here I come
Because weekends were, made for fun
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I work hard, everyday, it's all work and no play
With the boss on my back, he don't give me any slack
I sit down, I daydream of how my weekends gonna be
Chorus (1x)
By the time wednesday comes, I feel the beat and I wanna have fun
Chorus
All you ladies, clap your hands, stomp your feet and grab your man
Chorus
Okay men, it's your time, show the ladies what's on your minds
Chorus
Jumping music, slick deejays, fog machines and laser rays
Chorus
I work hard everyday, it's all work and no play
With the boss on my back, he don't give me any slack
I sit down I day dream of how my weekends gonna be
Chorus
Jumping music, slick deejays, fog machines and laser rays
Chorus (2x)
Lookout weekend cause...
Because weekends were...
Repeat (3x)
I want to get to know you better
seems like we both belong together
you rock my body like noone else
full force lots of care.
grab to the rhythm
as I stared at the way you move
lots of class as you stompin right
I like that groove
boy you got that groove
rockin in the streets to this funky beat.
funky little beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
rockin in the streets to this funky beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
rockin in the streets
rockin in the streets
that funky beat.
rockin in the streets to this funky beat.
2:00 and the party's still gooing
on all my friends there ready to go ohh
You turn around oh I smile at you
that's when you shy down
forget just what you want to do.
I'm gonna let it go
you know obviously
what I want you to do to me.
why cant you see its so easy
you and me just rockin with that beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
rockin in the streets to this funky beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
rockin in the streets
rockin in the streets
Talking...
It's 2:00
and the party's still going on
all my friends there ready to go
you turn around oh I smile at you
thats when you shy down
I give you all these clues
and you still dont know what to do
dododododo dodododo do do do do do do
rockin in the streets to this funky beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
funky little beat
rockin in the streets to this funky beat
rockin in
rockin in
rockin in the streets
rockin in
rockin in
rockin in the streets
rockin in the streets
rockin in
rockin in
rockin in the streets
rockin in
rockin in
rockin in the streets to this funky beat
rockin in
rockin in