Saturday Night Fish Fry-Swing Cats

[ti:Saturday Night Fish Fry] [ar:Bettie Page] [al:Bettie Page Pinups - 12 Essential Rockabilly Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Saturday Night Fish Fry - Bettie Page [00:05.67]Written by：Louis Jordan/Ellis Walsh [00:11.35]Now if you've ever been down to New Orleans [00:14.11]Then you can understand just what I mean [00:16.77]All through the week it's quiet as a mouse [00:19.32]But on Saturday night they go from house to house [00:22.01] [00:22.61]You don't have to pay the usual admission [00:25.09]If you're a cook a waiter or a good musician [00:27.74]So if you happen to be just passin' by [00:30.23]Stop in at the Saturday Night Fish Fry [00:32.86]It was rockin' it was rockin' [00:34.40] [00:38.46]You never seen such scufflin' [00:39.94]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [00:41.68] [00:43.79]It was rockin' it was rockin' [00:45.24] [00:49.19]You never seen such scufflin' [00:50.94]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [00:52.47] [00:54.50]Now my buddy and me was on the main stem [00:57.11] [00:57.87]Foolin' around just me and him [01:00.13]We decided we could use a little something to eat [01:02.74]So we went to a house on Rampart Street [01:05.42]We knocked on the door and it opened up with ease [01:08.38]And a lush little miss said come in please [01:10.46] [01:11.13]And before we could even bat an eye [01:13.42]We were right in the middle of a big fish fry [01:16.07]It was rockin' it was rockin' [01:17.90] [01:21.43]You never seen such scufflin' [01:22.81]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [01:24.59] [01:26.83]It was rockin' it was rockin' [01:28.42] [01:32.13]You never seen such scufflin' [01:33.14] [01:33.65]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [01:35.24] [01:37.47]Now the folks was havin' the time of their life [01:39.80]And we hollered let joy big in [01:42.68] [01:58.90]It was rockin' it was rockin' [02:00.78] [02:04.18]You never seen such scufflin' [02:05.81]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [02:07.30] [02:09.55]It was rockin' it was rockin' [02:11.00] [02:14.70]You never seen such scufflin' [02:16.30]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [02:17.85] [02:20.19]Now the women were screamin' and jumpin' and yellin' [02:23.31]The bottles was flyin' and the fish was smellin' [02:25.79]And way up above all the noise they made [02:28.16]Somebody hollered Better get out of here this is a raid [02:31.02]Now I didn't know we was breakin' the law [02:33.77]But somebody reached up and hit me on the jaw [02:36.47]They had us blocked off from the front to the back [02:38.97]And they was puttin' 'em in the wagon like potato sacks [02:41.57]It was rockin' it was rockin' [02:43.14] [02:46.79]You never seen such scufflin' [02:48.65]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [02:50.01] [02:52.10]It was rockin' it was rockin' [02:53.68] [02:57.41]You never seen such scufflin' [02:58.88]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [03:00.39] [03:02.58]I knew I could get away if I had a chance [03:05.16]But I was shakin' like I had the St. Vitus dance [03:08.03]Now I tried to crawl under a bathtub [03:10.14]When the policeman said where you goin' there bub [03:13.44]Year they got us out of there like a house afire [03:15.83]Put us all in that Black Maria [03:18.61]Now they might have missed a pitiful few [03:20.86]But they got poor me and my buddy too [03:23.86]It was rockin' it was rockin' [03:25.66] [03:29.12]You never seen such scufflin' [03:30.82]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [03:32.27] [03:34.43]It was rockin' it was rockin' [03:37.77] [03:39.63]You never seen such scufflin' [03:41.12]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [03:42.73] [03:44.89]We headed for jail in a dazed condition [03:47.90]They booked each one of us on suspicion [03:50.37]Now my chick came down and went for my bail [03:52.69] [03:53.22]And finally got me out of that rotten jail [03:55.71]Now if you ever want to get a fist in your eye [03:58.47]Just mention a Saturday night fish fry [04:00.96]I don't care how many fish in the sea [04:03.58]But don't ever mention a fish to me [04:06.42]It was rockin' it was rockin' [04:08.56] [04:11.49]You never seen such scufflin' [04:12.76]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn [04:14.51] [04:16.78]It was rockin' it was rockin' [04:18.41] [04:22.11]You never seen such scufflin' [04:23.45]And shufflin' 'til the break of dawn