Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweetIt 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 songbirdAnd 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
CHORUSShe'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
Come on I'll show you how to sing the bluesNow baby, come on over you got nothin' to lose,
Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you readyOoh, ooh, ooh, are you ready
I wanna show you how to rock and roll
Now listen here baby she, said to meJust, 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
CHORUS -- repeat
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 tunesAnd 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 all right