today's menu is... some BSO lyrics!

Hello again folks!
I'm posting a few songs by the BSO from the Japanese releases (from 1st BSO album, until Jumpin' East of Java)

The only song I'm not going to type is "Stray Cat Strut" (included as Japanese bonus on the first BSO album) as you can find it on this website.

As for the rest... set your voice to work and sing along!!

* from Guitar Slinger...
"GUITAR SLINGER" (bonus track for Japan)
They kicked out for playing too loud
I carried my amp out through the crowd
Some chick took a beer and threw it in my face
But I kep right on walking
Outside it was warm
There was a good crowd on the strip
We set our stuff down and had a smoke
Like we was waiting for a ride

And all the while I was thinking
You gotta keep moving in a mean mean town
It's better going nowhere than just standing around
By tomorrow morning I'll be leaving town
I'll go anyplace but ain't going down

Now I called Shorty and Lefty
There was a bassman called Beans
So we split to hail a rumour
About some work in New Orleans
A twenty fed the tank
Two bucks fed the band
Maybe we could make it
Down in a Jambalaya band

In a Meade Lux Lewis bar
That's where we found the job
Knocking timpan our for tips
Mostly from the mob
Said okay we'll take it
When they're drunk
We'll play the blues
We'll get some shirts from the islands
And some Cuban rock 'n' roll shoes

And all the while I was thinking
You gott keep moving in a mean mean town
It's better going nowhere than just standing around
By tomorrow morning I'll be leaving town
I'll go anyplace but ain't going down

But when we played the lost highway
A juicehead said we was hicks
And the whole bar began to beat us
With pool half sticks
They got the radio out of the car
They must have used a bomb
But when we piled in gunned her
She still sang then sweetest sung

Lefty woke among the bottles
Said North he could no come
We left him on canl street
Trading in his drums
I saw Elvis hitchhiking
Out on thr interstate
And Beans was getting paarnoid
About our California plates

And all the while I was thinking
You gotta keep moving in a mean mean town
It's better going nowhere thst just standing around
By tomorrow morning I'll be leaving town
I'll go anyplace but ain't going down

A cruiser pulled us over
Right across the line
Boocked us in a vagrants
In holding tank number nine
You learn how to flat pick
When you're loocking at a fourty-four
You do the orange blossom special
Till the peel falls on the floor

The bassman had a bust
From back home in a raid
So it was just me and shorty
Standing on a main parade
We liquidized our assets
In a bar did no talk
Then we hopped a non-stop greyhound
To the big bad beaty of New York
I woke up on twenty third street
As he backed into the slot
I saw that me and Shorty
Had been robbed of what we got
Then a guy said through the window
This is the end of the line
I said brother Im a guitar slinger and this is doing just fine


"ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHAKEDOWN" (bonus track for Japan)
I pulled it all together for one final day
I drove down to Nevada in a night and two days
Till my car caught fire and burned nose to tail
And the horn echoed out down the glamber's trail
For warmth I had my winnings ticked up in my shirt
And I pondered the ornens as I walked in the dirt
At night in the desert the wind brings the sound
Of a wild dog dying and asnake going to the ground

Rocky mountain shkedown
My vocation is to gamble
Rocky mountain shakedown
I deal in cards and dice
Rocky mountain shkedown
My boot heels know al the roulette wheels
This side of pardise

Up the grade and an old feller had suffered a flat
His family were sleeping as he fumbled the jack
Don't wanna wake 'em, he said their momma passed away
We been coming from the service down west Texas way
He fell but I held him and he let me fix the tire
Then he drove off and let me to follow the wire
Just when I was gripped by a strange emptiness
The old man has stolen that roll from my vest

Rocky mountain shakedown
I win I lose I ramble
Rocky mountain shakedown
Rolling rye with ice
Rocky monutain shakedown
I belive in all superstitons
This side of pardise

I hitched to the strip I could spin for a couple of beers
But I was slumped at the bar the girl burst into tears
And slowly explained how her mother was drunk
And my how the family savings had shrunk
We talked all the all the hours I said give me a chance
Go fetch your bankroll and I'll lead you a dance
She passed it on over and they took my arm
Lead me to the casino and I'll be your lucky charm

Rocky mountain shakedown
My vocation is to gamble
Rocky mountain shakedown
I deal in cards and dice
Rocky mountain shakedown
My boot heels know al the roulette wheels
This side of paradise

With the convention in town it was all gin and sin
We found the high rolling power and I quickly got in
With her by my side I felt I knew all the hands
When I looked round she's done I was up for hundred grand
At the bar there was a note in lipstick on the door
Thank you for winnin' but it ain't mine it's all yours
See honey truth is I know who you are
You're the man that was robbed by my sweet dear papa

Rocky mountain sahkedown
My vocatiom is to gamble
Rocky mountain shakedown
In deal in cards and dice
Rocky mountain shakedown
My boot heels know al the roulette wheels
This side of paradise

Rocky mountain shakedow
I win I lose I ramble
Rolling rue with ice
Rocky monuntain shakedown
I belive ina all superstitions
This side of parasdise


"HONKY TONK" (bonus track for Japan)
--Instrumental--

* from The Dirty Boogie...
"FLY JUICE" (bonus track for Japan)
--Instrumental--

* from Vavoom....
"CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE" (bonus track for Japan)
This thing (this thing) called love (called love)
Well I just can't handle it
This thing (this thing) called love
I can't get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love

This thing (this thing) called love (called love)
It cries (like a baby)
In a cradle all night
It swings (it swings)
It jives
It shakes all over like a jelly fish
I gotta like it
Crazy little thing called love

There goes my baby
She knows how to Rock'n' Roll
She drives my crazy
She gives me hot and cold fever
Then she leaves me in a cool cool sweat

I gotta be cool (be cool) relax (relax) get hip (get hip)!
Get on my track
Take a back seat
Hitch hike
And take a long ride on my motor bike
Until I'm ready
Crazy little thing called love

I gotta be cool relax get hip (get hip)
Get on my track's
Take a back seat
Hitch hike
And take a long ride on my motor bike
Until I'm ready
Crazy little thing called love

This thing (this thing) called love
Well I just can't handle it
This thing (this thing) called love
I can't get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love (called love)
Crazy little thing called love (called love)
Crazy little thing called love

"ROCK-A-BEATIN' BOOGIE" (bonus track for Japan)
Rock, rock, rock everybody
Roll, roll, roll everybody
Rock, rock, rock everybody
Roll, roll, roll everybody
Rock, rock, rock everybody
Rock-a-beatin boogie beat

You take a rock, you take a beat
You take a boogie, you make it sweet
You take a rock-a-beatin' boogie
Rock-a-beatin' boogie beat
Well, the rock-a-beatin' boogie, B.O.O.G.I.E

Well, rockin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Dancin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Shakin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Jumpin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Rompin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
B.O.O.G.I.E

You gotta jump, you gotta jive
You gotta dance, to be alive
You do the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Rock-a-beatin' boogie beat
Oh, rock-a-beatin' boogie, B.O.O.G.I.E

Well, rockin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Dancin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Shakin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Jumpin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
Rompin' to the rythm of the rock-a-beatin' boogie
B.O.O.G.I.E

Rock, rock, rock everybody
Roll, roll, roll everybody
Rock, rock, rock everybody
Roll, roll, roll everybody
Rock, rock, rock everybody
Rock-a-beatin' boogie beat

"GETTIN' IN THE MOOD"
(* I'm posting here the speech of Big King Fun)
I got on my best threads and my favourite shoes
Now it's m job to click, I've no love for the blues
Understand what I'm saying or you better get back
Got no time to waste cuz I'm one hepcat
And when I started working I crused like dybaflow
And when I'm in the mood I spread it all around
I might be the man who wants his party on the run
And when you see me coming just call me Big King Fun


* from Jumpin' East Of Java...
(this song is the only one you won't find in any other BSO release until 2001)
"GET ME TO THE CHURCH ON TIME"
I'm getting married in the morning
Ding-dong the bells are gonna chime
Girls come and kiss me
Say that you'll miss me
Get me to the church on time

I got to be there in the morning
Spruced up and looking in my prime
We'll have a whopper
Don't have to stop her
Get me to the curch on time

If I am dancing roll out the florr
If I am whistling I'm out of that door

I'm getting married in the morning
Ding-dong the bells are gonna chime

Girls come and kiss me
Say that you'll miss me
Get me to the church
Get me to the church
Get me to the church on time

If I am dancing roll out the florr
If I am whistling I'm out of that door

I'm getting married in the morning
Ding-dong the bells are gonna chime

Girls come and kiss me
Say that you'll miss me
Get me to the church
Get me to the church
Get me to the church on time

JonPascual wrote:

set your voice to work and sing along!!

"HONKY TONK" (bonus track for Japan)
--Instrumental--

* from The Dirty Boogie...
"FLY JUICE" (bonus track for Japan)
--Instrumental-