Mess Around

(album: Ray Charles - 1957)

Ah, you can talk about the pit, barbecue
The band was jumping, the people too
Ah, mess around
They doing the mess around
They doing the mess around,
Everybody doing the mess around
Ah, everybody was juiced, you can, bet your soul
They did the boogie-woogie, with a sturdy roll (?)
They mess around
They doing the mess around
They doing the mess around,
Everybody doing the mess around
Now, ah, when I say stop don't you move a peg
When I say go, just ah, shake your leg
And do the mess around
I declare, do the mess around
Yeah do the mess around,
Everybody's doing the mess around
Now let me have it there boy

[Piano Solo]

Now you got it boy

[Sax Solo]

(Yeah, ah, mess around, go on mess around)
(Mess around, boy)
Now this band's going to play from, 9 to 1
Everybody here's gonna have some fun
Doing the mess around
Ah, doing the mess around
They doing the mess around,
Everybody doing the mess around
Now you see that girl, with that, diamond ring
She knows how to, shake that thing
Mess around
I declare, she can mess around
Ah, mess around,
Everybody do the mess around