IT COMES FROM MISSISSIPPI AN' DOWN IN ALABAM CREEPING LIKE FEVER ALL ACROSS THE LAND FROM DEEP IN THE DELTA ON THE LOUISIANA SHORE THE PEOPLE GOT TO HAVE IT THEY WANNA HEAR SOME MORE
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IT'S THE HILLBILLY ROCK BEAT IT WITH A DRUM PLAYIN' THEIR GUITARS JUST LIKE SHOOTIN' FROM A GUN KEEPIN' UP THE RHYTHM STEADY AS A CLOCK DOIN' A LITTLE THING CALLED THE HILLBILLY ROCK
SOME SAY IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS DOWN IN TENNESSEE OR IT DRIFTED IN FROM GEORGIA 'BOUT NINETEEN FIFTY THREE JUST AS LONG AS IT'S BREEZY AS LONG AS IT'S FAST AS LONG AS IT'S PUMPIN' HONEY IT'S GONNA LAST
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WAY BACK IN OLD KENTUCKY WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS THROUGH THE CAROLINAS ON THE DIRT RED ROADS BURNING LIKE A FIRE RUNNING WILD IN THE WOODS FROM ARKANSAS TO TEXAS IT SOUNDS SO GOOD
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SO WHEN THE HEAT STARTS TO RISE AND YOU'VE GOTTA BLOW SOME STEAM TAKE A RIDE DOWN THE RIVER YOU'LL SEE JUST WHAT I MEAN THE JUKE JOINT'S JUMPIN' WHEN THAT CAT GOES ON THE WHOLE PLACE IS SHAKIN' THERE'S A SOMETHIN' GOIN' ON