Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Now if you
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haven't been down to New Orleans
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You can understand 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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they go from house to house
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If you're a cook or a waiter
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If you had to pass by
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Stop ping at the Saturday night fish fry
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scuffin'
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
and shovin' till the break
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of dawn
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Now my brothers and me was
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Messin' around, just me and them
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We decided we could use
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So we went to the tie, naturally
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We knocked on the door
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and opened with ease
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A lurchin' little miss said, come in please
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Before we could bat an eye
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We were right in the middle of a big fish fry
It was rockin'
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It was rockin'
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You never seen such confidence
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You never seen such confidence
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And shoved him the brink of death
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folks was havin'
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Sam was tryin'
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to pull Jimmy's wife
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And over in the corner was
a beat -up gram
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by a big, fat piano man
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of them chicks wore
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expensive frocks
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But some of them had on Barbie socks
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But everybody was nice and high
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ticular Saturday night, fish fry
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It was rockin'
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and shovin' to the break of dawn
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So me and the band,
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we fell right in,
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we hollered, let the joy begin
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We figured this was a
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cause the party was already un derway
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But all of a sudden, the lights went low,
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and everybody made straight
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I stood right there and I fell on the floor
I was rockin'
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I was rockin'
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You never seen such scuffin'
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and shufflin' to break a down
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The joint was rockin' Reel
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in' and rockin'
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and shufflin' to break a down
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Now the women were screamin'
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The bottles were flyin'
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Way up above all the noise they made
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So they hollered,
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get out of here, this is a raid
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I was breaking the law
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But somebody reached out
like potato sacks
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They were rockin' Captain rockin'
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You never seen such confidential
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They was rockin'
and shuffin'
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to break them down
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Now I knew I could get away
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But I was shakin' like I had
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where you goin' there, bub?
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like a house on fire
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They put us all in the black Mirai
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They might have missed a pitiful few
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But they got both me and the band too
It was rockin'
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You never seen such scuffin'
and suvin'
till the break of dawn
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen such scuffin'
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We all headed for jail in
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a day's condition
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They booked each one of us on suspicion
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My wife came down and went my bail
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And got me out of that rotten jail
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fish in your eye
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Mention a Saturday night fish fry
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I don't care how
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many fish in the sea
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But don't ever mention fish to me
It was rockin'
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You never seen such governance
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It was rockin'
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until the break of dawn
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it was rock in'
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Well, kep t on rockin'
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It was rockin',
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reamin' and rockin'
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You never seen such stuffin'
and a -shufflin'
Let's get out of here,
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fellas, we might get a
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Yow!
Outro 1
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