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Van Morrison song lyrics:
The Bang Contractuals from
The Lost Tapes
(see Discography entry)
- Twist And Shake
- Shake And Roll
- Stomp and Scream
- Scream and Holler
- Jump and Thump
- Drivin' Wheel
- Just Ball
- Shake It Mable
- Hold On George
- The Big Royalty Check
- Ring Worm
- Savoy Hollywood
- Freaky If You Got This Far
- Up Your Mind
- Thirty Two
- All The Bits
- You Say France And I Whistle
- Blow In Your Nose
- Nose In Your Blow
- La Mambo
- Go For Yourself
- Want A Danish
- Here Comes Dumb George
- Chickee Coo
- Do It
- Hang On Groovy
- Goodbye George
- Dum Dum George
- Walk and Talk
- The Wobble
- Wobble and Ball
Twist and shake baby.
Twist and shake baby.
Do the Twist.
Do the Shake.
Baby, hey, hey, hey.Twist and shout baby.
Do the Twist baby.
Twist and shake baby.Do the Shake baby.
Shake it up baby.
Twist and shake baby.
Do the Twist.
How long baby,
can ya' do the Twist?
How long
can ya' do the Shake?
Twist and shake.
Twist and shake.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Shake and roll.
Shake and roll baby.
All night long.
All night long.
You can shake.
You can roll.
All night long.You can shake and roll baby.
Just like that.
Mmmmm, yes, yes, yes.
Shake and roll baby.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Stomp and scream baby.
Oh baby.
Stomp and scream baby.
Wail baby.
Do the thing.
Move it 'round.
Just a little bit.
Come on baby.
Ya' got a good thing goin'.
Yes, yes.
Baby.
Stomp and scream baby.
Don't mean maybe.
You're my baby.
You're my baby.
I don't mean maybe.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Scream and holler baby.
Scream and holler baby.
Scream and holler baby.
Oooh-oooh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah baby.
Scream and holler baby.
All night long baby.
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Jump and thump.
When you're drunk,
jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump,
when you're drunk.
Jump and thump.
Jump and thump.
When you're drunk.
Jump and thump.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Drive and wail.
Go to jail.
You look so pale when ya' do the Drive and Wail.
Sock it to me baby.
One more time.
Just-a one more time.
Sock it to me baby.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Sock it to me baby.
Oh yeah.
Sock it to me.
Drive and wail baby.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Just ball.
Just ball.
Just ball.
Just ball.
Just ball.
Just ball.
That's all.
That's all.
Just ball.
That's all.
Just ball.
Sock it to me.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Shake it Mable.
You look so good.
Everytime you shake it, Mable.
Hey Mable,
a-where ya' gonna shake it, Mable?
"I'm goin' down to shake it down funky Broadway, baby."
Can I come along with you?
"No you can't.
I'm gonna shake it all over funky Broadway, baby."
Hey Mable, can I come down to funky Broadway, baby?
I wanna come along with you.
I wanna come down to funky Broadway, Mable.
Maybe you and me get together and get screwed, baby.
Funky Broadway, yeah.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Hold on George,
George hold on.
Hold on George,
George hold on.
Hold on George,
George hold on, yeah.
Sock it to me.
Hold on.
Hold on George.
Sock it to me.
Do the Boogaloo.
Anything you wanna do.
Hold on.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
I'm waiting
for my royalty check to come,
and it still hasn't come yet.
It's about a year
over due.
I guess it's coming
from the Big Royalty Check in the sky.
I waited and the mailman
never dropped it in my letterbox.
Oh, oh-oh, oh...
I guess it's a Big Royalty Check in the sky.
Oooh baby.
But you can't
beat the tax man
and me
all at once.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
I can see
by the look on your face
that you've got ringworm.
I'm very sorry but,
I have to tell you that
you've got ringworm.
It's a very common disease.
Actually, you're very luck to have
ringworm
'cause you may have
had somethin' else.
Oooh, aaahhh...
Uuunnnhhhaaahhnnn...
You've got ringworm.
Oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh....(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
runnin' 'round the gravel green.
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
runnin' 'round the gravel green.
Mmmmm...
Yes, now get it, now get it together, go.
Bumm-bumm.
Now bumm-bumm-bumm-bumm-bumm,
bumm-bumm-bumm...
And then we'll get, we'll get six gui-,
six guitars,
and then we'll get six guitars and we'll,
we'll get fourt-, get, and we'll get,
we get Herbie Lovelle to play drums,
and we'll have a good session,
and we...(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Freaky, freaky,
if you got this far.
You came a long way,
but you're freaky
and we can do something with you.
If you got this far
you should be freaky,
you should be freaky.
If you got this far
we'll put you in a jar
and sell you
as a freak.
We think you're freaky,
two, two, three.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Up your mind,
if you've got a mind.
Up your mind,
if you've got a...
I think you've got
about one living cell in your brain.
But that's alright, that's cool.
Up your mind.
Wooo-oooh-oooh-oooh-ooh.
Baby, baby, baby.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
I see, you see, we'll get a guitar,
yeah, we'll get a guitar
and, oh, we'll get, we'll get three guitars,
No!, No!!, we'll get four guitars
and we'll get Herbie Lovelle to play drums,
and we'll do, the
"Sha-la", sha...
We'll do the sha-, sha-la bit.
"Sha-la, sha-, sha-la, sha-la", we'll do it,
we'll get together, uunghh, we'll get
uunghh, ttcchh, uugnhh-uunghh-uunghh, like that,
and we'll do the sha-la bit and then,
then, then, and we'll get, we'll get sixteen guitars,
and then, then we'll play it,
and then we'll do that one, yeah.
Let me hear ya' do that again.
Over and over, Bert Berns song, over...[clack, clack-clack, clack]
(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
All the bits.
No, ya' see, ya' get, ya' get a thing goin' like that,
it's uh, uhh...
and then, you put it on the end, ya' go
"Dahnt-dahn," you know, like that,
at the end of the lyrics,
"Dahnt-dahn"...
"Dahnt-dahn"...
"Dahnt-dahn", that's nice,
"Dahnt-dahn"
"Dahnt-dahn", that kinda riff, ya' see, get it...
"Dahnt-dahn"...
"Dahnt-dahn"...
"Dahnt-dahn", choke up on it,
"Dahnt-dahn"
"Dahnt-dahn", and we'll put all the bits in.
"Dahnt-dahn"
"Dahnt-dahn"
"A-Dahnt-dahn"
"A-Dahnt-dahn"
"A-Dahnt-dahn"...(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
You Say France And I'll Whistle
You say "France"
and I'll whistle.
You say "France"
and I'll whistle.
I'll whistle,
you say "France".
No, you say "France" and I'll whistle.
No, no, you whistle and I'll say "France".
No, no, you say "France" and I'll whistle.
Yeah, you whistle, I'll say "France", yeah.
No, no,
you say "France" and I'll whistle.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Oh operator, give me long distance.
It's a person-to-, yeah, yeah, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, go, alright, alright, just...
"Um,
Hello?
Hello,
um...
we got a, we, we put an album together and we're releasing it next week.
It's called Blowin' Your Nose.
It's got a psychedelic jacket,
and it's called Blowin' Your Nose.
It's a gorgeous album cover; you should see it.
It's groovy."
"You mean you called me up to tell me that...that, yeah...
Groovy."...(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Nosin' your blow
in the wintertime baby,
nosin' your blow.
Nosin' your blow baby.
And, you're crazy.
You go crazy.
You're going in-sane!!!
Baby,
don't worry about it.
Have another sandwich.
Nosin' your blow.
Got nowhere to go
in the snow.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
La-la-la-la mambo.
La-la-la mambo, mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo, mambo.
Chicka, yeah.
Mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo, mambo.
Mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo.
La mambo.
La-la, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Hey, where you gonna go for yourself?
I think you should go for yourself.
I think you should go for yourself this time.
I think this time you should go for yourself.
I think you should go for yourself this time.
This time I think you should go down funky Broadway.
Oh, baby, baby.
Baby, I wanna get a job down funky Broadway.
Go for yourself.
Go for yourself.
Go for yourself.
Go for yourself baby.
Go for yourself.
I think you should go for yourself.
Go for yourself.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
"You want a danish?"
"No, I just ate,
I've just aten."
"D'ya' want..."
"Like, I want some bread up front."
"Oh, bread up front. You want a sandwich?
Have a danish.
Want a sandwich?
Have a sandwich.
Have a seat.
Have a seat,
have a sandwich,
have a danish."(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Everybody together on the chorus.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George, Boogaloo!
Boogaloo baby.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.
Here come dumb George.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chick-oooh, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chucka-chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka, uungh-ahh-chicka...
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it, do it.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Ssshhgguuuhh, do your thing.
Do it.
Aaannwww.
Ooohhh.
Put voices in the background,
and, uhh, uhh,
we'll get,
and we'll get Herbie Lovelle to play drums.
Do it.
Do it, do it.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Hang on Groovy, Groovy hang on.
Hang on Groovy, Groovy hang on.
Hang on Groovy, Groovy hang on.
Hang on Groovy, Groovy hang on.
Let your hair hang down Groovy.
Groovy, groovy, groovy, groovy.
Hang on Groovy.
You're in the groove.
Groovy, groovy, groovy.
Groovy, hang on.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Goodbye George,
George, goodbye, goodbye.
You gotta go.
Too bad.
Goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Here come
a-number forty-five
in Argentina baby.
Goodbye.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
This here's the story about
dumb, dumb George,
who came up to Boston
one sunny afternoon.He drove up from New York City,
and he was freaky,
and he wanted to record me,
and I said,
"George,
you're dumb."
And he said, "I know.
Why do you think I make so much money.
I wanna do
a record
that'll make number one."
Dumb, dumb.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Oh, talk that talk and walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Walk that walk.
Talk that talk.
Baby, you look so good.
Come on baby,
walk and talk.
Come on baby,
walk and talk.
A-when ya' talk to me,
you know you look so good.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Do the Wobble baby.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble baby.
Do the Wobble baby.
Do the Wobble baby.
Come on baby,
do the Wobble.
Come on baby,
do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble baby.
Wobble baby.
Come on baby.
Come on baby.
Do the Wobble baby, baby, baby.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble baby.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Wobble baby.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
Wobble and ball.
Wobble and ball baby.
Do the Wobble.
Do the Ball.
Do the Ball.
Do the Wobble.
Boogaloo,
down Broadway baby.
Do the Boogaloo
all 'round Broadway baby.
Do the Ball.
Baby.
All 'round Broadway baby.
Do the Ball.
Do the Ball baby.
All over Broadway baby.(Transcribed by ear; corrections requested and welcomed!)
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