Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Now you
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ever
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been down to New Orleans
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You can understand just what I mean
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All through the week it's
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But on Saturday night they
go from house to house
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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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Stoppin' at the Saturday night fish fry
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It was rockin', it was rockin'
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You never seen sis jumpin' and shovin'
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till the break of dawn
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Foolin' around, just me and him
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We decided we could use
So we went to a house on Rampart Street
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And a pretty little miss said,
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come in please
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An d before we could even bat an eye,
middle of a big fish fight
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You never seen sis jumpin' and shufflin'
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till the break of dawn
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and Jim was jivin' Sammy's wife
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Over in the corner was a
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beat -up grand,
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bein' played by a big fat piano man
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some of them even had on bobby socks
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But everybody was nice and high
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at this particular Saturday night fish fight
It was rockin'
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till the break of dawn
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Now my buddy and me, we fell right in,
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we hollered, let the joy begin
good place to play
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cause the party was already under way
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But all of a sudden the lights went low
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Man, I was so scared.
I didn't know where to go
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and everybody headed for the front door
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I stood right there and I fell on the floor
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You never see this jump on that shelf
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until the break of dawn
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Now the women was jumping
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the bottles was flying
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and way up above all the noise they made somebody
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hollered you better get out of here boy this is a raid.
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I didn't know we were breaking the law,
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then somebody reached over
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and they putting them in the wagon
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It was rockin'. It was rockin'.
till the break of dawn.
Now I figured we could get
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I tried to crawl underneath the bathtub
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when a policeman hollered,
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This is gonna be my first time in jail,
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and the only thing worries me
is who's gonna go my bail.
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They might have got a pitiful few,
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but they got both me and my buddy too
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till the break of dawn
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they booked each one of us on suspicion
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My gal came down and whipped my bail
and finally got me out of that rotten jail
if you ever want to get a fist in your eye,
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just mention to me a Saturday night fish fry.
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I don't care how many
don't ever mention a fish to me.
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It was rockin'. It was rockin'.
jumpin' and shovelin'
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till the break of dawn.
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Em
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Thank very much.
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ChordsG Bb A C F...
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