| Says I want everybody, fall in line
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| Shake your shimmy, like I’m shaking mine
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| You shake your shimmy, shake it fast
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| If you can’t shake your shimmy, shake your yas yas yas
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| Says *I am* with your mama, out across the field
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| Slipping and a‑sliding, just like an automobile
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| I hollered at your mama, I told her to wait
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| She slipped away from me, just like a Cadillac Eight
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| Say I like your mama, sister too
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| I did like your papa, but your papa wouldn’t do
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| I met your papa, around the corner the other day
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| I soon found out, that he was funny that a‑way
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| Says I went out yonder, New Orleans
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| The wildcat jumped, on the sewing machine
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| The sewing machine, sewed so fast
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| Sewed ninety‑nine stitches, up his yas yas yas
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| Says God made Adam, made him stout
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| He wasn’t satisfied, until he made him a snout
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| He made him a snout, just as long as a rail
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| He wasn’t satisfied, until he made him a tail
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| He made him a tail, just to fan the flies
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| He wasn’t satisfied, until he made him some eyes
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| He made him some eyes, just to look on the grass
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| He wasn’t satisfied, then he made his yas yas yas
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| He made his yas yas yas, so he couldn’t get a trick
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| He wasn’t satisfied, until he made him sick
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| He made him sick, and then made him well
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| You know by that, the big boy’s coughing in hell |