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Down At "The Twist And Shout" lyrics
Down At "The Twist And Shout" lyrics
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Down At "The Twist And Shout" lyrics

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.

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