Rock Your Body | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
Chorus 1
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (dance with me).
I wanna rock your body, please stay (dance with me).
You don’t have to admit you, wanna play (dance with me).
Just let me rock you (ah), ’til the break of day (dance with me).
Verse 1
| F N.C | Em |
Guy time, but I don’t mind, just wanna rock you, girl.
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
I’ll have whatever you have, come on just give it a whirl.
See I’ve been watchin’ you, and I like the way you move.
So go ahead, girl just do, that ass-shakin’ thing you do.
Pre-chorus 1
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
So you grab your girls and you grab a couple more, and you all come meet me in the middle of the floor.
Said the air is thick, it’s smellin’ right, so you pass to the left and you sail to the right.
Chorus 2
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (dance with me).
I wanna rock your body, please stay (dance with me).
You don’t have to admit you, wanna play (dance with me).
Just let me rock you, ’til the break of day (dance with me).
Verse 2
| F/G G/A | Em N.C |
I don’t mean no harm, just wanna rock you, girl.
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
You can move, but be calm, let’s go, let’s give it a whirl.
See it appears to me, you like the way I move.
I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do, pull you close, and share my groove.
Pre-chorus 2
So you grab your girls and you grab a couple more, and you all come meet me in the middle of the floor.
Said the air is thick, it’s smellin’ right, so you pass to the left and you sail to the right.
Chorus 3
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (dance with me).
I wanna rock your body, please stay (dance with me).
You don’t have to admit you, wanna play (dance with me).
Just let me rock you, ’til the break of day (dance with me).
Bridge 1
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
(Talk to me, boy) No disrespect, I don’t mean no harm.
(Talk to me, boy) I can’t wait to have you in my arms.
(Talk to me, boy) Hurry up ’cause you’re takin’ too long.
| F/G G/A | Em N.C |
(Talk to me, boy) Bet I’ll have you naked by the end of this song.
Middle 8
| Gmaj9/B Cmaj7 | D Em7 A7sus4 |
So what did you come for? (I came to dance with you).
| Gmaj9/B Cmaj7 | D Em7 Fmaj7 |
And you know that you don’t want to hit the floor (I came to romance with you).
| Gmaj9/B Cmaj7 | D Em7 A7sus4 |
You’re searchin’ for love forever more (It’s time to take a chance)
| C7sus4 | D11 |
If love is here on the floor, girl.
Breakdown 1
||: N.C (bass only) :|| x4
Hey. Dance with me. Yeah. Come on, baby.
Chorus 4
Don’t be so quick to, don’t walk away (come on and dance with me).
I wanna rock your body, please stay (I wanna rock your body, come on and dance with me).
You don’t have to admit you, wanna play (you don’t have to admit to, wanna play just dance with me)
Just let me rock you, ’til the break of day (do, do, do-doh, come on and dance with me)
Bridge 2
(Talk to me, boy). No disrespect, I don’t mean no harm.
(Talk to me, boy). I can’t wait to have you in my arms.
(Talk to me, boy). Hurry up, ’cause you’re takin’ too long.
Oh, baby (talk to me, boy). Bet I’ll have you naked by the end of this song.
Breakdown 2
||: N.C :|| x4
||: Boom boom bomm… :||
||: N.C (bass only) :|| x4
||: Boom boom bomm… :||
Chorus 5
||: N.C (bass only) :||
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (just think of me and you).
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (we could do somethin’).
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (I like the way you look right now).
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (come over here, baby).
Breakdown 3
||: N.C :||
(Boom boom boom…) Are you feelin’ me?
(Boom boom boom…) Let’s do somethin’.
(Boom boom boom…) Let’s make a bet.
(Boom boom boom…) ‘Cause I gotta have you naked by the end of this song.
(Boom boom boom…)
Rock Your Body Chords: Learn the progressions
As a guitarist, you could think of Rock Your Body‘s chords as F – G – Em, since that’s what you’ll play.
However, as the bass plays the F/G and G/A, you should know how that is the full sound of Rock Your Body’s chords.
In order to fully understand the music you’re playing, you should always look into the full scope of the harmony, not just find your part and move on.
To get the sound absolutely bang on, you need TAB, here’s a link: Rock Your Body – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
The chords for that main progression are from the E Dorian (D major). It’s important to know this because of the middle 8 section which looks like this with Roman Numerals:
| Gmaj9/B (I) Cmaj7 (IV) | D (V) Em7 (VI) A7sus4 (II) |
| Gmaj9/B Cmaj7 | D Em7 Fmaj7 |
| Gmaj9/B Cmaj7 | D Em7 A7sus4 |
| C7sus4 (IV) | D11 (V) |
What’s happened here is that we switched the key from D (or E Dorian) to G (or D Mixolydian), you could call this a modal interchange, or a key change.
The second line has a Cmaj7 and Fmaj7 meaning we’re now in the key of C, or G Mixolydian. As these chords happen so fast, you’ll be best off memorizing the TAB.
Coming back from the TAB adventure, this chord chart should be helpful as the structure is a bit nuts.
Rock Your Body Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Rock Your Body Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Rock Your Body iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
Rock With You was from Justin’s debut album Justified!
Justin Timberlake‘s Rock Your Body was the third single from his debut album, Justified (2002).
The album sold 10 million copies worldwide, with three additional singles all being massive hits (Senorita, Cry Me A River, and Like I Love You).
Rock Your Body is possibly the one that has proved to have the greatest legacy, still being played by DJs and bands the world over a couple of decades later.
Rock With You was mixed by Canadian wizard Serban Ghenea, I call him a wizard as I once had a track mixed by him for one of my bands.
I had given up all hope and was claiming the tune had to be re-recorded, then I got Serban’s mix back, and my complaining instantly stopped! Unfortunately, the band broke up before that single was released…
There are some insanely talented people out there, plenty of them seem to have worked on Justin Timberlake’s Justified.
Producers for the album include The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo), Timbaland, Scott Storch, The Underdogs, and Brian McKnight.
Apparently, the main inspirations for the album were Michael Jackson‘s Off The Wall (1979) and Thriller (1982).
Rock Your Body Chords | Related Pages
Rock Your Body | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake using TAB and chord analysis.
||: F/G G/A | Em :||
Don’t be so quick to, walk away (dance with me)…
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Justin Timberlake tunes
Starting out on Disney alongside Britney and Christina, Justin Timberlake moved on to NSYNC before he on the advice of Michael Jackson, launched a solo career.
His best tunes include Rock Your Body, Cry Me A River, Like I Love You, Senorita, Mirrors, and Can’t Stop The Feeling!
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About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Rock Your Body chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
