You’ve got a cute way of talking
You got the better of me
Just snap your fingers and I’m walking
Like a dog hanging on your lead
I’m in a spin you know
Shaking on string you know
You make me feel like dancing
I’m gonna dance the night away
Crazy people walking round with blood in their eyes
And all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance
Wild-eyed pistols wavers who ain’t afraid to die
And all she wants to do is
And all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
Don Henley
I ask about your turtle
And you ask about the weather
I can’t jump a hurdle and
We can’t get together
We could be relaxin’
In my sleepin’ bag
But all you want to do for me, Mama, is rag Mama rag
All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It’s apropos
Of nothing
He says his name’s William but I’m sure,
He’s Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he’s plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
Sheryl Crow
Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain’t gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin’ off of the people’s taxes
Bobbie Sue, whoa, whoa, she slipped away
Billy Joe caught up to her the very next day
They got the money, hey
You know they got away
They headed down south and they’re still running today
Singin’ go on take the money and run
Steve Miller Band
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin’ ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister’s jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billy Joe
Might as well jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump
Get it in, jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump
Van Halen
Oooh, you gotta jump, jive then ya wail
You gotta jump jive, jive, then ya wail
Louis Prima
I know a cat named Way-Out Willie
He got a cool little chick named Rockin’ Billie
Do you walk and stroll with Susie Q
And do that crazy hand jive too?
Papa told Willie “you’ll ruin my home
You and that hand jive has got to go”
Willie said “papa, don’t put me down
Been doin’ that hand jive all over town”
Hand jive, hand jive
Hand jive, doin’ that crazy hand jive
Willie and the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis
Hey down, stay down, stay down, down
'Cause little Willy, Willy won’t go home
But you can’t push Willy ‘round
Willy won’t go, try tellin’ everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won’t go home
Sweet Little Willie
Willy is my child, he is my father
I would be his lady all my life
He says he’d love to live with me
But for an ancient injury that has not healed
He said, “I feel once again like I gave my heart too soon”
Joni Mitchell
Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile
Blinky thumps the gut bass and solos for a while
Poor Boy twangs the rhythm out on his Kalamazoo
And Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo
Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival
-“BB”-
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
I got a gal in Kalamazoo
Dont want to boast but I know she’s the toast of Kalamazoo
(Zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo)
Glenn Miller
Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo
I do believe it
I do believe it’s true
It’s a light and tumble journey
From the East Side to the park
Just a fine and fancy ramble
To the zoo
Simon and Garfunkel
Oh no something went wrong
Well you’re much too fat and a little too long
Hey hey you got too much to lose
Gotta get on back to the animal zoo
Spirit
Daddy’s takin’ us to the zoo tomorrow,
Zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow
Daddy’s takin’ us to the zoo tomorrow
And we can stay all day
We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too
We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo
See the elephant with the long trunk swingin’
Great big ears and a long trunk swingin’
Snuffin’ up peanuts with a long trunk swingin’
And we can stay all day
Peter, Paul and Mary
I absolutely adored this song when I was a kid. We had it on 8-track in the car. We probably drove our parents crazy listening to it constantly. That song and “How Much is That Doggy in the Window” - arf arf!
The animals, the animals,
Let’s talk dirty to the animals
Fuck you, Mister Bunny
Eat Shit, Mister Bear.
If they don’t love it, they can shove it
Frankly, I don’t care
Gilda Radner
I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there;
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair.
The monkey he got drunk
And sat on the elephant’s trunk,
The elephant sneezed and went down on his knees
And what become of the monk?
– Traditional
Monkey doodle-do, monkey doodle-do.
If you try to make a monkey out of me, I’ll make a baboon out of you.
Lonnie Johnson
We’re off to see the Wild West Show,
The elephant and the kangaroo-oo,
So never mind the weather
As long as we’re together,
We’re off to see the Wild West Show.
Traditional