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One, two, three, four |
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Hi everybody, I'm from the sixties |
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The time of Louie Louie and little Latin Lupe Lou |
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And I know we can't have those times back again |
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But we can have parties like they were then |
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We need more parties in the USA |
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We need more parties in the USA |
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Could there be block parties of which I don't know? |
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Maybe they're in neighborhoods where I don't go |
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Could there be all these parties down some little lane? |
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With potato chips sitting there and guitar playing |
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We need more parties in the USA |
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Well my friends were having a party 'round about nine |
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Down in Huntington Beach when the police knocked |
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Well, my friends were just quiet now |
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They were just drinking coffee and talking |
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When the officer said someone called up complaining |
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Everybody kept walking, he said |
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"Go home, go home, go home, go home" |
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He said, "Go home, go home, go home" |
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And that's no good for |
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Parties in the USA |
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That's no good for papa, papa Lupe Lou |
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No, no good for hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on |
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So people are staying home more, not having fun |
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A cold cold era has begun, has begun |
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Now things were bad before, there was lots of loneliness |
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But in 1965 things were not like this |
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When we had hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on |
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Oh, oh, yeah and papa, papa Lupe Lou |
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Shake it, shake it, shake it Lupe, alright |
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Well could there be block parties of which I know not? |
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Wild beach parties around some open flame |
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I know there's got to be parties, I bet there's a lot |
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But the USA has changed somehow that I can't name |
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He said |
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"Go home, go home, go home, go home" |
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He said, "Go home, go home, go home" |
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And that's no good for parties in the USA |
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No, papa, papa Lupe Lou |
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Oh yeah |
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People are moving to California, who hate the beach and things |
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I think they'd rather watch TV than hear a real person sing |
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Of course nowadays at parties you got louder stereo equipment |
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So now if the parties too loud, it's like a radioactive shipment |
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I say nowadays at parties, for example, you got louder stereo bass |
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So now if the things too loud, it's like a toxic clean up case |
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Well nowadays at parties well, they've got louder stereos, right? |
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So now if it's too loud, it's like a noxious chemical sight |
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Well, parties in the USA |
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He said, "Go home, ho home, go home, oh, oh" |
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Parties in the USA |
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But these friends of mine in Huntington Beach |
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They weren't loud when the officers entered |
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Like and these officers, man, they weren't mellow |
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I mean they were so uncentered, they said |
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"Go home, go home, go home" |
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That's no good for parties in the USA |
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We need more papa, papa Lupe Lou |
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We need more shake it, shake it, shake it, Lupe |
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We need more parties yeah, in the USA |
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Alright, yeah, shake it up, shake it up, oh |
