|
Just got back from the downtown palais |
|
Where the music was so sweet |
|
It knocked me right back in the alley |
|
I'm ready, yea, yea, yea, i'm ready, |
|
Wo, wo, wo, i'm ready |
|
And i'm really gonna rock tonight. |
|
Sweet little lady sings like a songbird |
|
And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard, |
|
But she ain't ready, |
|
No, no, no, she ain't ready |
|
No, no, no, she ain't ready, |
|
And she ain't gonna rock & roll |
|
Chorus |
|
She's sweet on wagner, |
|
I think she'd die for beethoven, |
|
She loves the way puccini lays down a tune, |
|
And verdi's always creeping from her room |
|
Come on i'll show you how to sing the blues |
|
Now baby, come on over you got nothin' to lose, |
|
Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you ready |
|
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready |
|
I wanna show you how to rock and roll. |
|
Now listen here baby she, said to me |
|
Just, meet me at the opera house at a quarter to three, |
|
'cos i'm ready, yea, yea, yea, i'm ready, |
|
Woo, hoo, hoo, i'm ready, |
|
I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues. |
|
Chorus -- repeat |
|
Far, far away the music is playing. |
|
Well we were reelin' and a rockin' all through the night, |
|
Yea we were rockin' at the opera house until the break of light, |
|
And the orchestra were playin' all chuck berry's greatest tunes. |
|
And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues, |
|
And as the night grew older everybody was as one, |
|
The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song |
|
Just to hear the opera singer singin' rock & roll so pure, |
|
I thought i saw the mayor there but i wasn't really sure, |
|
But it's alright. |
