The Lonely Island é um grupo de cineastas e comediantes fundado em 2001 por Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone e Andy Samberg (também conhecido como Dudes). O grupo era originalmente de Berkeley, na Califórnia (Bay Area), e agora reside em New York. O nome da banda deriva de um pequeno quarto onde se alojaram durante meses, o hotel Lonely Island. O grupo já criou vários filmes de comédia, shorts, canções paródias, música e vídeos. Tem escrito shorts para o popular programa de televisão Saturday Night Live
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Intro Am Aww get your towels ready it's about to go down shorty yeah C Everybody in the place hit the deck shorty yeah F But stay on your toes G We running this let's go
Chorus Am I'm on a boat I'm on a boat I'm on a boat I'm on a boat C Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat sailing on a boat F I'm on a boat I'm on a boat I'm on a boat G Take a good hard look at the boat boat yeah
Verse 1 (Akiva) Am I'm on a boat take a look at me C Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea F Busting five knots wind whipping out my coat G You can't stop me cause I'm on a boat
Verse 2 (Andy) Am Take a picture trick trick I'm on a boat C We drinking Santana champ cause it's so crisp crisp F I got my swim trunks and my flippie-floppies G I'm flipping burgers you at Kinko's straight flipping copies
Verse 3 (Akiva) Am I'm riding on a dolphin doing flips and C The dolphin's splashing getting everybody all wet F But this ain't Seaworld this is real as it gets G I'm on a boat don't you ever forget
Verse 4 (Andy) Am I'm on a boat and it's going fast and C I got a nautical themed pashmina afghan F I'm the king of the world on a boat like Leo G If you're on the shore then you're sure not me-oh
Spoken Andy Get the up this boat is REAL
Verse 5 (Akiva) Am land I'm on a boat C trees I climb buoys F I'm on the deck with my boys yeah G This boat engine make noise
Verse 6 (Andy) Am Hey ma if you could see me now see me now C Arms spread wide on the starboard bow starboard bow F Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow moon somehow G Like Kevin Garnett anything is possible
Verse 7/Bridge (T-Pain) Am Yeah never thought I'd be on a boat C It's a big blue watery road yeah F Poseidon G Look at me oh all hands on deck Am Never thought I'd see the day C When a big boat coming my way F Believe me when I say G I a mermaid
Chorus/Ending Am I'm on a boat I'm on a boat C Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat woaah F I'm on a boat I'm on a boat G Take a good hard look at the ' boat sha-sha-shorty shorty yeah