| Go tell your mother, you’re stepping out with me, Say that we’ll be dancing and
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| you won’t be home 'til three.
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| Go tell your father he needn’t pace the floor, Promise at the stroke of three
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| you’ll tip toe through the door. |
| I told my mother and, I told my father and
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| They (Yes?), say… (What did they say?)Ma says, Pa says, we must keep on
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| dancing, Ma says, Pa says, we must keep on dancing, For if we keep on dancing,
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| we won’t start romancing, But if we start romancing, we won’t keep on dancing.
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| Go tell your mother, I’m taking you out to dine
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| Tell her this here restaurant the cooking is divine
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| Go tell your father, You’ve got an appetite
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| Say that you’re so hungry you could eat all through the night.
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| I told my mother and, I told my father and
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| They (Yes?), say… (What did they say?)Ma says, Pa says, we must keep on eating
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| Ma says, Pa says, we must keep on eating
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| For if we keep on eating, our lips can’t be meeting, But if our lips are
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| meeting, we won’t keep on eating. |
| Go tell your mother, tonight you’ve got a
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| date; |
| Say that you and I will be attending a little debate.
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| Go tell your father, I’m gonna make a speech
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| Say the lecture will be held upon a sandy beach.
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| I told my mother and, I told my father and
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| They (Yes?), say… (What did they say?)Ma says, Pa says, we must keep on
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| talking
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| Ma says, Pa says we must keep on talking
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| For if we keep on talking, we won’t go out walking
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| But if we go out walking, we won’t keep on talking.
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| We’ll date and debate
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| We’ll meet and eat
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| We’ll walk and talk beneath the moon’Cos Ma says, Pa says,… We can marry soon |