Charleston Alley-Lambert/Hendricks & Ross

[ti:Charleston Alley] [ar:Lambert, Hendricks & Ross] [al:Lambert, Hendrick & Ross] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Charleston Alley - Lambert/Hendricks & Ross [00:00.88]On the avenue you may be [00:03.57]Havin' you a solid ball [00:05.57] [00:07.09]But it ain't no ball at all [00:09.06] [00:10.39]Compared to the kicks when [00:12.55]You dally in charleston alley [00:14.55] [00:15.25]Maybe it don't look so hot [00:17.53]But believe me it's the spot [00:19.53]Where you can sure let your hair down [00:22.41]Everything's right [00:23.96]And you can boogy all night [00:25.97]Say man charleston [00:28.61]Alley is the play man [00:30.46] [00:31.08]You can rally every [00:32.83]Cool cat on the avenue [00:35.48] [00:36.44]And they'll say its true if [00:39.55]You're feelin' blue this is the place for you [00:43.91] [00:45.14]No goof and that's the truth [00:47.03]I dig charleston alley and [00:50.03]I'm here t' tell ya pally [00:51.31] [00:52.48]It's a place where life is real [00:54.78] [00:55.43]I'm tellin' you I [00:56.41]Never found a better deal [00:58.54]We know just how you feel [01:01.13] [01:01.75]Ribs and pigs feet the [01:05.38]Tastiest meat that you ever did eat [01:08.73]And a good piano player a [01:10.77]Plinkin' an plunkin an playin' them blues [01:12.91] [01:13.59]I doubt if you'll ever be gayer [01:14.99] [01:15.94]We know tell us [01:17.65]About what you know [01:19.00]Where to play tell [01:21.16]Us about where to go [01:22.70]And we'll show you [01:24.61]Don't know what time it takes [01:26.31]You the way lookin' [01:28.25]For what shakes [01:29.39]Well let me tell you [01:30.88] [01:31.65]That if you've come to dally [01:33.64] [01:34.20]Dig this crazy alley and we [01:38.32] [01:38.84]Know its where you're goin' to move [01:42.69] [01:43.54]And this is not an idle boast [01:45.37] [01:46.08]Many crazy alleys [01:48.40]That we've went hilltop o'mally's [01:53.06] [01:54.12]None a' them could quite [01:55.70]Compare with red hot charleston alley [01:58.81] [01:59.81]When you're rockin' and you're [02:01.49]Rollin' to the rythym of the solid beat [02:03.94] [02:05.36]You're gonna have t' stomp your [02:07.51]Feet and you're sure to hang around [02:10.30] [02:11.46]Wiggin' an' diggin' the sounds [02:12.51]So dig this vocal travelogue that we're singin' everyone [02:17.63]'Bout that circle by the dark sun charleston alley is the place to be [02:26.66] [02:27.19]We get our kicks from hicks who hurry and take in the great white way [02:31.52] [02:32.79]We'll pick the alley any day charleston alley is the place for me [02:42.07] [02:42.85]Better get up if you're takin' a trip take a tip [02:46.36] [02:46.96]On the avenue you may be havin' you a solid ball [02:51.53] [02:53.20]But it ain't no ball [02:54.70]At all [02:55.47] [02:56.44]Compared to the kicks you get from charleston alley [03:00.69] [03:01.37]If you should make the trip I'm pretty sure you'ld really flip [03:07.17] [03:08.02]So let your cares be and baby make it down with me [03:12.10] [03:12.85]To charleston alley