I've got an idea, let's play a game
Okay everybody listen
At a fancy event where they all put on airs
Or they're standing around with their frozen stares
What lightens the night and the burden one bears
Is a game of musical chairs
When the party drags on, no one plays, no one cheers
When the guest start to leave or just sit on the stairs
Before they're asleep like a bunch old bears
Start a game of musical chairs
Line up the chairs and find all your friends
Someone stops the music
And you must be sitting or else you're out
That's what musical chairs is all about
Skip, dance, parade or prance
The chances are you'll win
If an empty chair is right there
Where you could plop right in
Walk sing do anything
Try spinning round like tops
Just be right there by an empty chair
When the music stops
Each time there is one less chair
There's one less playing too
But if you're not late and you concentrate
It won't be you
You mustn't blink 'cause in a wink
You'll see how the whole game can change
If you're still standing when the music's through
You do look strange
Find a chair, the music could stop at any moment
You never know if fast or slow
Will win you the prize
Just listen closely and just hope mostly
There's no surprise
Faster the music plays
The one who stays around
Is the one who hits the chair when he sits
And not the ground
Where did the chairs all go
Almost no place to sit
Wait, there's still one chair
Can you make it there? Better get to it
Oh no, she's got it, whoa, she slipped
He tripped, who's in?
But there's something wrong, they've stopped the song
You're sitting, she's quitting
You're the last one with the chair, you win