Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweet
It knocked me right back in the alley
I'm ready, yea, yea, yea, I'm ready,
Wo, wo, wo, I'm ready
And I'm really gonna rock tonight.
Sweet little lady sings like a songbird
And she sings the opera
like you ain't never heard,
But she ain't ready,
No, no, no, she ain't ready
No, no, no, she ain't ready,
And she ain't gonna rock & roll
She's sweet on Wagner,
I think she'd die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini
lays down a tune,
And Verdi's always
creeping from her room
Musical Interlude
Come on I'll show you
how to sing the blues Now baby,
Come on over you got nothin' to lose,
Are you ready,
hey, hey, hey are you ready
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready
I wanna show you how to rock and roll.
Now listen here baby she, said to me
Just meet me at the opera house
at a quarter to three,
'Cos I'm ready,
yea, yea, yea, I'm ready,
Woo, hoo, hoo, I'm ready,
I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues
She's sweet on Wagner,
I think she'd die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini
lays down a tune,
And Verdi's always
creeping from her room
Musical Interlude
(Far, far away
the music is playing)
Well we were reelin' and a rockin' all
through the night,
Yea we were rockin' at the opera house
until the break of light,
And the orchestra were playin'
all Chuck Berry's greatest tunes.
And the singers in the chorus
all got off on singing blues,
And as the night grew older
everybody was as one,
The people on the streets came
runnin' in to join in song
Just to hear the opera singer
singin' rock & roll so pure,
I thought I saw the mayor there
but I wasn't really sure,
But it's alright...
