The dithyramb (διθύραμβος – dithurambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god:Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions "the birth of Dionysos, called, I think, the dithyramb." Plato also remarks in the Republic (394c) that dithyrambs are the clearest example of poetry in which the poet is the only speaker.
Plutarch contrasted the dithyramb's wild and ecstatic character with the paean. According to Aristotle, the dithyramb was the origin of Athenian tragedy. A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing is still occasionally described as dithyrambic.
Dithyrambs were sung by choruses at Delos, but the literary fragments that have survived are largely Athenian. In Athens dithyrambs were sung by a Greek chorus of up to fifty men or boys dancing in circular formation (there is no certain evidence that they may have originally been dressed as satyrs) and probably accompanied by the aulos. They would normally relate some incident in the life of Dionysus.
Hey now baby - Let's do the rump
Yeah darling - Lets do the rump
Do the rump 'til the broad daylight, broad daylight
Hey now baby - All over again
Yeah darling - All over again
Do the rump - 'til the broad daylight, broad daylight.
Hey now baby - Let's do the rump
Yeah darling - Let's do the rump
Do the rump
Do the rump
Hey now baby - Let's do the rump
Yeah darling - Lets do the rump
Do the rump 'til the broad daylight, broad daylight
Hey now baby - All over again
Yeah darling - All over again
Do the rump - 'til the broad daylight, broad daylight.
Hey now baby - Let's do the rump
Yeah darling - Let's do the rump
Do the rump
Do the rump
'til the broad daylight, broad daylight yeah