| It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it
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| It’s gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me
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| If you wanna dance with me
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| I’ve got no kick against modern jazz unless they try to play it too darn fast
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| And lose the beauty of the melody until they sound just like a symphony
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| That’s why I got for that rock and roll music, any old way you choose it
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| It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it
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| It’s gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me
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| If you wanna dance with me
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| I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks, so she can hear my man await a sax
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| I must admit they have a rockin' band, man they were goin' like a hurricane
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| That’s why I got for that rock and roll music, any old way you choose it
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| It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it
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| It’s gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me
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| If you wanna dance with me
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| Way down South they have a jubilee, the jockey folks they had a jamboree
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| They’re drinking homebrew from a watercup, the folks are dancin',
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| got all shook up
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| And started playin' that rock and roll music, any old time you use it
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| It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it
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| It’s gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me
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| If you wanna dance with me
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| Don’t care to hear them play a tango, I’m in the mood to take a mambo
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| It’s way too early for the congo, so keep a-rockin' that piano
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| That’s why I got for that rock and roll music, any old way you use it
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| It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it, any old time you use it
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| It’s gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me
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| If you wanna dance with me |