there s a great big house at the end of a street where everyone dances to a different beat rhythm and harmony mingle and meet and everyone gets along this is the place where the lines are erased between contrasting cultures religion and race everyone s welcome and we all belong and that s why we all come to the house of song we come for blues in the basement reggae on the roof jazz on the jukebox the rhythms of soul and rock and roll and everybody dances all night long everybody dances all night long the music is the magic in the house of song like harmony and rhythm we get along the music is the magic in the house of song wo wo spinning turning living learning keeping the beat keeping the peace twist and twirl one house one world different tunes in different rooms infinite rhythms intimate rhymes a hundred heartbeats keeping time i ll dance to yours you dance to mine let s open all the doors and erase the lines we come for blues in the basement reggae on the roof jazz on the jukebox the rhythms of soul and rock and roll and everybody dances all night long everybody dances all night long the music is the magic in the house of song like harmony and rhythm we get along the music is the magic in the house of song wo wo spinning turning living learning keeping the beat keeping the peace twist and twirl one house one world different tunes in different rooms infinite rhythms intimate rhymes a hundred heartbeats keeping time i ll dance to yours you dance to mine let s open all the doors and erase the lines to the bossa in the bedroom hip hop on the tabletop country in the kitchen rhumba in the restroom classics in the closet polka in the parlor disco in the den calypso on the patio some old chuck berry in the library waltzes in the workshop rap out back in the garden shack big band in the ballroom ragtime in the rec room opera in the outhouse grateful dead on the waterbed and reggae oh we got reggae yes we got reggae in the house of song