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Holly RockSheila E.

Released: October 24, 1985

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock
Say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

Somebody

There's a way to say it
Horns!
Ah

Come on over, baby, and take the puck
A funky little thing called holly rock
It might be a dance, it might be a song
It might have you rockin’, baby, all night long

Anybody want the holly rock
Take a little pick, you just can't stop
It's bad, good god
Care for you to turn me out

And all you little birds, gather ’round
I'm gonna show you what the holly rock's about

(Holly rock)
(Holly rock) Got to get to get up
(Holly rock)
(Holly rock) Aha

Sheila E's my name, holly rock's my game
I'm funky as I wanna be
Lyin' up a hundred, I swear to god
I'm rockin’ ’till you just can't see

Mass appeal, a little girl’s smile
I make you happy, baby, all the while
'Cause I'm bad, good god
And if you got a big enough stick

Come on over, baby, to the holly rock
Don't you wanna learn a new trick?

(Holly rock)
(Holly rock) Got to get to get up
(Holly rock)
(Holly rock) Somebody!

Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock, you say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock, you say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)



Look at here

Sheila E’s my name, holly rock's my game
I'm funky as I want to be
Lyin' up a hundred, I swear to god
I'm rockin' 'till you just can't see

'Cause I'm bad, good god
I'm badder than a wicked witch
I pet to kill, you live a doll too
Don't you wanna be my b****?

(Holly rock) Good god
(Holly rock) Got to get to get up
(Holly rock) Lord
(Holly rock) Somebody say

Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock, what?
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

I can't hear you, say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock) Come on!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

(Holly rock)
(Holly rock)
(Holly rock)
(Holly rock)

Somebody say

Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock, you say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)
Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock, you say it!
(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

Ladies and gentlemen
Mr. Eddie M

Come on, Eddie, play your horn, son

Good god

(Holly rock)
(Holly rock) Got to get to get up
(Holly rock)
(Holly rock)

Eddie, Eddie
What we're gonna do?
We're gonna

(Rock, rock, holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock)

I'm bad, good god
I'm badder than a wicked witch
I pet to kill, you live a doll too
Don't you wanna be my, oooh!

(Holly rock) Kiss my everlovin'
(Holly rock) H.O.R.N., horn!

(Holly rock) Good god
Fellows, give it a bang

Uh

Holly rock, yeah

(Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock
Rock, rock, holly rock
Everybody wanna holly rock)

Holly rock, yeah

Sheila E.

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo on December 12, 1957, is a singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Oakland, California. Her honorific title is “The Queen of Percussion”.

The daughter of a Mexican jazz percussionist and Creole/African-American factory worker, Sheila comes from a family of musical royalty – father Pete Escovedo and uncle Coke were members of the Santana band for a time. Her other uncles are Alejandro, who has had a sustained alt-punk career; Javier, who led the early punk pioneer band The Zeros; and Mario, who fronted the 90s group The Dragons and MEX, aka Mario Escovedo Xperience. Sheila’s brothers Juan and Peter Michael are also percussionists, with Peter working on The Wayne Brady Show. Sheila is the goddaughter of Tito Puente, a Latin Jazz pioneer and Spanish Harlem legend.

“Before I had language, I had rhythm,” she wrote in The Beat Of My Own Drum, a 2014 memoir. “I learned it before I learned my mother tongue.” At the age of 20, Sheila became a member of George Duke’s R&B jazz band, and worked with him from 1976 to 1980, during Duke’s early Epic/CBS years. By the age of 26, she had already worked or toured with Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, Diana Ross, and family friend Lionel Richie.

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