Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the "Twist and Shout"
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun1 beat
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more
Wanna dance to a band from a Luzianne2 tonight
Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
But I heard that music on the radio
And I swore some day I was gonna go
Down to Highway 10 past Lafayette
There's Baton Rouge and I won't forget
To send you a card with my regrets
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home
Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the "Twist and Shout"
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more
Wanna dance to a band from a Luzianne tonight
They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie
A Gulf storm blowin' into town tonight
Livin' on the delta's quite a show
They got hurricane parties every time it blows
But here up north it's a cold, cold rain
And there ain't no cure for my blues today
Except when the paper says BeauSoleil3
is a comin' into town
Baby, let's go down
It's Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the "Twist and Shout"
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more
Wanna dance to a band from a Luzianne tonight
Bring your mama, bring your papa,
bring your sister too
They got lots of music and lots of room
When they play you a waltz from the 1910's
You gonna feel a little bit young again
Well, you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll
You learned to swing with a do-si-do4
But you learn to love at the fais-do-do5
When you hear a little Jolie Blon6
Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the "Twist and Shout"
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more
Wanna dance to a band from a Luzianne tonight
1. "Cajun" is an adaptation of "Acadians". They are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speakers from Acadia in what are now The Maritimes of Eastern Canada). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun 2. Luzianne is an adaptation of Luzianna, a regional pronunciation for Louisiana3. BeauSoleil(Beautiful Sun) is a US musical group specializing in Creole music, based in Lafayette, Louisiana.4. A do-si-do is a basic dance step in square dancing5. 'Fais do do' is an old French lullaby, a song sung to children when putting them down for the night. Its existence in Cajun culture as a source for dances, or bands, comes from an affection for the term itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fais_do-do 6. Jolie Blon (also known as Jole Blon, Jolie Blonde or Joli Blon) is the traditional Cajun waltz, often referred to as
the Cajun National Anthem.