(Mary Chapin Carpenter)
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Saturday night and the moon is out
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I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
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Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
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When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
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Out in the middle of a big dance floor
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When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
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Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight
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Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
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Never have drifted down a bayou stream
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But I heard that music on the radio
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And I swore some day I was gonna go
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Down Highway 10 past Lafayette
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To Baton Rouge and I won't forget
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To send you a card with my regrets
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'Cause I'm never gonna come back home
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Saturday night and the moon is out
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I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
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Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
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When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
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Out in the middle of a big dance floor
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When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
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Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight
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They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pie
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A golf storm blowin' into town tonight
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Livin on the delta's quite a show
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They got hurricane parties every time it blows
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And here up north it's a cold cold rain
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And there ain't no cure for my blues today
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Except when the paper says: Beausoleil is coming into town
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Baby let's go down
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Saturday night and the moon is out
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I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
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Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
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When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
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Out in the middle of a big dance floor
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When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
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Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight
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Bring your mama, bring your papa, bring your sister too
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They got lots of music and lots of room
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When they play you a waltz from 1910
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You gonna feel a little bit young again
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Well you learned to dance with your rock'n'roll
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You learned to swing with a do-si-do
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But you learn to love at the fais-so-do
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When you hear a little Jolie Blon
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Saturday night and the moon is out
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I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
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Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
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When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
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Out in the middle of a big dance floor
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When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
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Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight
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Down At The Twist And Shout
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| Mary Chapin Carpenter |
