Red Hot Chili Peppers

Songwriter: Jack Irons Hillel Slovak Flea Anthony Kiedis

Producer: Spit Stix

[Intro]
Get up and jump, get up and jump, get up, get up, get up and jump
Jump on up
Jump on down
Just jump a jump a jump a jump a jump around
Jump the day away
Jump all over town
Because jumping is okay in a jumping kinda way, hey hey

[Verse 1]
Jump a boy
Jump a girl
Jump a rope
Jump for joy
Just don't stop jumping
Keep your heart muscle pumping
Hillel be jumping on that little baby Frumpkin
Say what, You got a pumpkin in your pants
When you're just standing or sitting still
Think about the frogs getting a thrill
Take a little lesson from the kangaroos
Don't you know they're jumping foos, jump you
Jump a nun
Jump a Jack
Jump for fun
Jump back
How's about us jumping in the sack?
And now, it's time for a jump attack

[Chorus 1]
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump

[Chorus 2]
Jam Bob, Jim Bob, Slim Bob Boogie
To the tune of slima Billy
Looking like you're mighty silly
Say what, you got a pumpkin in your pants
Jam Bob, Jim Bob, Slim Bob Boogie
To the tune of slima Billy
Looking like you're mighty silly
Say what, you got a pumpkin in your pants

[Verse 2]
Mister Mexican jumping bean knows
His fun is squeaky clean
Christ, how'd you think that he got so clean
Not from sitting on his goddamn spleen. Get up
Oh, I be jumping I be jumping I be jumping alone
I be jumping for the phone
I be jumping Misses Jones
I really want to jump on Kinski's bones

[Chorus 1]
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump
Get up and jump

[Chorus 2]
Jam Bob, Jim Bob, Slim Bob Boogie
To the tune of slima Billy
Looking like you're mighty silly
Say what, you got a pumpkin in your pants
Jam Bob, Jim Bob, Slim Bob Boogie
To the tune of slima Billy
Looking like you're mighty silly
Say what, you got a pumpkin in your pants

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a rock band based in Los Angeles, CA that incorporates elements of rap, funk, punk, and rock into their work, mainly classified as an alternative rock band. They made it mainstream off the success of their 1991’s fifth studio album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, led by singles “Give it Away” and “Under the Bridge.” After losing guitarist John Frusciante and losing popularity following the release of the less successful One Hot Minute, the band reunited for 1999’s Californication. The title track and hit singles “Around the World,” “Scar Tissue” and “Otherside” propelled them back to the fame. After 2002’s solid release By the Way and 2006’s double-disc Stadium Arcadium, Frusciante once again left the band to further pursue his solo career. The band added Josh Klinghoffer to help fill his void, and released I’m With You in 2011.

In December 2019, the band announced via Instagram that Klinghoffer had left after 10 years, and Frusciante would be rejoining.

Their lyrical content was mostly centered around sex, drugs, and the Los Angeles lifestyle, and lead singer Anthony Kiedis mostly rapped them as he wasn’t confident as vocalist. Most members of the band also suffered from drug addiction, as Kiedis and Frusciante had to check themselves into rehab for heroin addiction at various points in their lives. But Californication marked a change in the band’s content matter and lifestyle. The band was sober for the most part, and the lyrics had shifted to songs about love and the pains of addiction, the title even criticized the city they loved so much. In addition, Kiedis had started to sing his lyrics much more often as he finally felt comfortable with his voice. That change has allowed the band to stick around for over 20 years despite multiple changes to their lineup and is part of why they remain relevant.

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From the albums

The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984)
Out in LA (1994)

Red Hot Chili Peppers popular songs

Get Up and Jump (Demo Version)Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Out in LA