Watch Rep. John Lewis Dance To ‘Happy’ By Pharrell (VIDEO)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., arrives to speak at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Tens of thousand... Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., arrives to speak at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, to commemorate King's famous ""I Have a Dream" speech, made Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS

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March 20, 2014 1:47 p.m.

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Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) took it upon himself to make your day by dancing to Pharrell’s popular song “Happy.”

“Be happy everybody,” he says in a video of him dancing uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. “That’s what the government is supposed to do, bring happiness to everybody.”

A spokesman for Lewis did not respond to Buzzfeed’s request for comment on the circumstances of the congressman’s dance.

Pharrell partneered with the United Nations Foundation on Thursday for its International Day of Happiness, according to Buzzfeed.

Watch Lewis dance via YouTube user Rachelle O’Neil:

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