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WELL HE COME DRIVIN UP IN A CADILLAC CAR
A BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN WITH A GUITAR
HE COUNTED OUT TO 4
THE CROWD BEGAN TO ROAR
WITH 1500 WAITING OUTSIDE THE DOOR
WELL HERE HE COMES ALL DRESSED IN BLACK
WALKING TO A BEAT WAY IN THE BACK
AND WHEN HE STOPS YOU TIP YOUR HAT JACK
TO THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK N ROLL
HE LEFT LIPSTICK ON THE MICROPHONE MAN
A WOP BE BOP A LULA BOP AND BOOM BAM
WHEN THAT GEORGIA PEACH
LETS OUT A DEEP SOUTH SCREECH
WELL BABY DON’T IT REACH DOWN TO YOUR SOUL
LISTEN FOR THAT SCREAM YOU KNOW IS BLACK
AND WHO IS DANCIN’ WITH THE CHICK IN SLACKS
WHEN HE TAKES A BOW MAN YOU BEST CLAP
FOR THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK N ROLL
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Underground
03:05
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Shake it Shake it
Shake It Shake It Down
Shake it Shake it
Shake it Shake it Down
shake it down and out
everybody scream and shout
Shake it Shake it
Shake it Shake it down
Shake it Shake it
Shake it Shake it down
put your hands in the air
now everybody say yeah
I know a place where the music is loud and groovy
I know a place where the kids are alright now yeah
Shake It Shake It
Shake It Shake It Down
Shake it Shake it
Shake It Shake It Down
Shake It Shake It
Shake It Shake It Down at The Underground
shake it down and loud
get out in the crowd
I know a place where the music is loud and groovy
I know a place where the kids are alright now yeah
Shake It Shake It
Shake it Shake it Down in The Underground
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Tape Deck
01:38
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tape deck tape deck
round and round
spinnin’ reels yeah
what’s that sound
go down moses
follow the tracks
way over yonder
and there’s no comin’ back
tape deck tape deck
play back that song
put that riff right
where it belongs
that charlie watts thing
is the swing I need
don’t stitch her up man
let it bleed
8 track blastin’ Highway Star
why don’t we start a band and
this thing chewed up Trick’s cassette
I’m going for a walk, man
Radio Shack ain’t coming’ back
and neither are the good ol’ days
so let the drummer count it off
roll the tape and play
tape deck tape deck
round and round
spinnin’ reels yeah
what’s that sound
go down moses
follow the tracks
way over yonder
and there’s no comin’ back
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Maniaxe
02:35
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little boy
threw away his dump truck and he got a brand new toy
down at roy’s
we were listening to records and cookin’ up our own batch of noise
drinking coca cola mama mia rock n rolla
pressure cooker summer call a plumber get a drummer
and you know it’s a fact we were born at the right time
rock n roll maniaxe
girls girls girls
well they’re the whole thing in a nutshell
dancin’ to the tv show
after school
smokin’ cigarettes
and don’t forget to genuflect when you go
sheila stole her daddy’s car he took the keys away
and honey is a star and yeah she likes it that way
well you know it’s a fact
they was born at the right time
rock n roll maniaxe
oh we heard the beat
the melody was jangly
oh yeah shangalang we sang
our gang victory song
oh we felt the heat
summer in the city streets
oh yeah shangalang we sang
all that summer long
candy apple red
just got a new guitar and a brand new pair of cuban heels
amplifier head
just blew up in the cellar
while we were sniffin’ glue and coppin’ feels
no matter what the weather yeah you always wear your leather
and like byrds of a feather we always rock together
and you know it’s a fact
we was born at the right time
we’re ROCK N ROLL MANIAXE!
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Monsters
03:17
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monsters come out of your nightmares
monsters hide inside your head
monsters come out when they all know you’re scared and
monsters don’t sleep when they’re dead
there are monsters who live in the city
and monsters that live by the shore
some monsters are proud and they dress up nice and pretty
and some of them live right next door
monsters come in thru your eyeballs
monsters crawl up from underneath
monsters are loud
and some don’t make a sound
monsters are stuck between your teeth
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Headhunter
03:03
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well i don’t want to talk about it
all you do is talk Headhunter
you want to get inside of me
that’s not place you want to be
Headhunter
you could never take back what you found
and you could never turn away
from all the things you’d hear me say
why don’t you just stay away or drown
Headhunter
well there’s a ticking clock that speaks in tongues
but does not speak to everyone
Headhunter
and it seems to me to be unkind
to the naked and the blind
Headhunter
be wary of the streets on which you roam
where voices only whisper tones
and sad guitars they rattle bones
of all the souls that wander on their own
Headhunter
so i don’t want to talk about it
all you do is talk
Headhunter
you want to get inside of me
that’s not place you ought to be
Headhunter
round n round n round n round it goes
where this stops nobody knows
I guess I know I suppose
but I would never tell another soul
Headhunter
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from the early early morning
to the middle of the night
she prances round like jagger back in ’65
all empty seats in the dome
the lights are on but ain’t nobody home
that girl is a space cadette
her brain is wet
from wearing to much aqua net
a satellite dish
no tv set
that girl is a space cadette
she’s a walking tape loop of drama and despair
won’t stop talking or come up for air
but hey back in the day
you should have seen her milky way
that girl is a space cadette
her brain is wet
from wearing to much aqua net
a satellite dish
no tv set
that girl is a space cadette
louie louie said she stole all of his dope
took off in his saucer and left a note
it read:
klaatu barada nikto man
a wop be bop a lu bop a wop bam
that girl is a space cadette
her brain is wet
from wearing to much aqua net
a satellite dish
no tv set
that girl is a space cadette
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Zombie Moon
03:38
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we fell in love beneath the zombie moon
you were falling apart and i was too
draggin' behind a little piece of me and you
you took my heart and ate my brain
so that I should never know any pain
then I went and did the same for you
if a bus should run over us
i suppose it wouldn't hurt as much
as if i had to walk this world without you
all alone beneath the zombie moon
when we held hands
at the half dead dance
i never felt more alive
when you said give me your head
together forever beneath the zombie sky
we fell in love beneath the zombie moon
you were falling apart and I was too
draggin' behind a little piece of me and you
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Rock Rules
02:24
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well little richard put some lipstick on a microphone
and a new york station brought it in on home
lou said it, muddy said it
chuck berry too
shake your hips play a riff
get that record with the zipper
ROCK RULES!
I was hanging out with my friend DK
He was spinnin’ records like the last DJ
I said now isn’t it a pity rock n roll is dead
He kicked me in the teeth then he punched me in head
ROCK RULES!
One, well keep your dirty hair long
Two, and write a one chord song
Three, yeah perfect your cool
Four, then break all the rules
I was walkin’ up the street with a broken guitar
when I got pulled over by a cadillac car
“hey white boy why’d you steal all my licks?”
cuz you’re the greatest coolerator
and thank you for the lift
ROCK RULES!
One, learn how to hold a guitar
Two, find a girl with a car
Three, forget that record deal
Four, buy a reel to reel
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