"Rock 'N' Roll Music" lyrics

"Rock 'N' Roll Music"
(originally by Chuck Berry)

Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
And old time you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me

I've got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
And change the beauty of the melody
Until they sound just like a symphony

That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me

I took my loved one over cross the tracks
So she can hear my man await a sax
I must admit the have a rocking band
Man they were going like a hurricane

That's why I go for that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me

Way down south they gave a jubilee
the jockey folks they had a jamboree
They're drinking home-brew from a water cup
The folks dancing got all shook up

And started playing that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me

Don't care to hear 'em play a tango
I'm in the mood to hear a mambo
It's way too early for a congo
So keep rocking that piano

So I can get some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me


Thanks to Cheryl L for adding these lyrics.
Thanks to Pamela Roelofse for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Chuck Berry
compilation: "Lipstick Traces (A Secret History Of Manic Street Preachers)" (2003)
Manic Street Preachers - Lipstick Traces (A Secret History Of Manic Street Preachers) compilation cover
Prologue To History
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Sorrow 16
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Socialist Serenade
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Donkeys
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Comfort Comes
(from "Life Becoming A Landslide" single)
Mr Carbohydrate
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Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
(from "A Design for Life" single)
Horses Under Starlight
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Sepia
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Sculpture Of Man
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Democracy Coma
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Strip It Down
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Bored Out Of My Mind
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Just A Kid
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Close My Eyes
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Valley Boy
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We Her Majesty's Prisoners
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