Allons en Louisiane (Down at the Twist and Shout)

                                  Saturday night and the moon is out. 

I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout,

find a two-step partner and a cajun beat, 

when it lifts me up, I'm gonna find my feet

out in the middle of a big dance floor.

When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more.

Wanna dance to a band from a Lousian' tonight.

 

And I never have wandered down to New Orleans,

never have drifted down a bayou stream.

But I heard that music on the radio,

and I swore someday I was gonna go:

down a highway 10 past Lafayett;

there's a Baton Rouge.

and I won't forget to send you a card with my regrets

'cause I'm never gonna come back home.

 

Saturday night and the moon is out. 

I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout,

find a two-step partner and a cajun beat, 

when it lifts me up, I'm gonna find my feet

out in the middle of a big dance floor.

When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more.

Wanna dance to a band from a Lousian' tonight.

Hey!

 

They gotta alligator stew and a crawfish pie,

a gulf storm blowin' into town tonight.

Livin' on the delta it's quite a show.

They got hurricane parties ev'ry time it blows.

But here up north it's a cold, cold rain,

and there ain't no cure for my blues today; 

except when the paper says

Beousoleil is a comin' into town.

baby let's go down. 

 

It's Saturday night and the moon is out. 

I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout,

find a two-step partner and a cajun beat, 

when it lifts me up, I'm gonna find my feet

out in the middle of a big dance floor.

When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more.

Wanna dance to a band from a Lousian' tonight.

 

Bring your mama, bring your papa, bring you sister too.

They got lots of music and lots of room.

When they play you a waltz form a nineteen ten, 

you're gonna fell a little bit young again.

Well you learn to dance with you rockin' roll,

you learn to swing with do-si-do.

But you learn to love at the fais do 

do when you hear a little Jolie Blon.

 

Saturday night and the moon is out. 

I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout,

find a two-step partner and a cajun beat, 

when it lifts me up, I'm gonna find my feet

out in the middle of a big dance floor.

When I hear that fiddle, wanna beg for more.

Wanna dance to a band from a Lousian' tonight. 

Whoo!