Lyrics:

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