Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Now if
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you've ever been down to New Orleans
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Then you can understand
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just what I mean
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But on Saturday night,
they go from house to house
Verse 2
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You don't have to pay the usual admission
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If you're a cook or a waiter
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So if you happen to be
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just passin' by
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Stop in at the Saturday Night Fish Fry
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It was rockin',
Verse 3
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it was rockin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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Verse 4
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on the main stem
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Foolin' around just me and him
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We decided we could use
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So we went to a house on
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Rampart Street
Verse 5
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And a little large miss said,
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"Come in here, please"
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Before we could even bat an eye
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We was right in the middle of a big fish fry
Verse 6
rockin',
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it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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Verse 7
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the time of their life
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And Sam was jiv in' Jimmie's wife
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Being played by a big fat piano man
Verse 8
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Now some of the chicks wore
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expensive frocks
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And some of them had on bobbie socks
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But everybody was nice and high
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At this particular Saturday Night Fish Fry
Verse 9
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it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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Verse 10
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we fell right in
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Then we hollered, "Let the jar begin!"
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Now we figured this was
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a good place to play
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Goes the party,
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it was already under way
Verse 11
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But all of a sudden the lights,
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they just went real low
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And everybody head straight
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for the front door
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know where to go
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I stood right there and
then I fell on the floor
Verse 12
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it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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it was rockin'
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Verse 13
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in' and jumpin' and yellin'
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The bottles was fly in' and
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the fish was smellin'
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noise they made
Verse 14
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I didn't know we were
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breakin' the law
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But somebody reached up and
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hit me right on the jaw
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front to the back
Verse 15
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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Verse 16
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I knew I could get away if I had a chance
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But I was shakin' like I had
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the St. Vitus dance
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Now I tried to crawl under a bathtub
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When the policeman hollered,
Verse 17
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Now they got us out of there
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like a house on fire
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Put us all in that Black Maria
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Now, they might have missed a pitiful few
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But they got poor me and my buddy too
Verse 18
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rockin', we was rockin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
Verse 19
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in a dazed condition
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They booked each one of us on suspicion
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Now my chick came down
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and finally went my bail
Verse 20
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Now if you ever wanna get
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a fist in the eye
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urday Night Fish Fry
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I don't care how many
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fish in the sea
Verse 21
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break of
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dawn
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