Key: Db major•
Verse 1
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Now
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if you've ever been down to New Orleans
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just what I mean
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All through the week
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it's quiet as a mouse
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But on Saturday night they
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go from house to house
Verse 2
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You don't have to pay
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If you're a cook,
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waiter or a good musician
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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
Verse 3
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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'
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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 4
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Now my buddy and me was
on the main stem
Foolin' around just me and him
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we could use a little something to eat
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So we went to a house
Verse 5
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We knocked on the door and
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it opened up with ease
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And a lush little Miss said,
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'Fore we could even bat an eye
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We were right in the middle of a big fish fry
Verse 6
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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
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of dawn
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It was rockin',
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it was rockin'
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You never seen such scufflin'
And shufflin' 'til the break
of dawn
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E#dim
Verse 7
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Now the folks was havin'
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And Sam was jivin'
Jimmie's wife
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Over in the corner was a beat up grand
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Being played by a big fat piano man
Verse 8
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Some of the chicks wore
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expensive frocks
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Some of them had on bobbie sock s
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But every body was nice and high
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At this par ticular Saturday night fish fry
Verse 9
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rockin',
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it was rock in'
You never seen such scufflin'
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And shufflin' 'til the break
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of dawn
It was rockin',
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it was rockin'
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You never
seen such scufflin'
And shufflin' 'til the break of
dawn
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Verse 10
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The bottles was flyin' and
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And way above all the
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"You better get outta here, this is a raid"
Verse 11
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I didn't know we was breakin' the law
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Till somebody reached over
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They had us blocked off
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from front to back
like potatoes in a sack
Verse 12
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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 13
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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
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had the St. Vitus dance
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under a bath tab
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"Where are you goin' there, bub?"
Verse 14
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there like a house on fire
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Put us all in the black maria
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Now they might have
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missed a pitiful few
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But they got both me and my buddy too
Verse 15
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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
It was rockin',
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G#m
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it was rockin'
And shufflin' 'til the
break of dawn
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Verse 16
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Well, we headed for jail in a dazed condition
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They booked each one
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Now my chick came down
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and paid my bail
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And finally got me outta that rotten jail
Verse 17
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get a fist in your eye
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Just mention a Saturday
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Don't care how many fish in the sea
Verse 18
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rockin', it was rockin'
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it was rockin'
Outro 1
And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn
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G#m
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E#dim
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C#
Cbdim
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Gb
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E#m
A
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