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