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[00:12.03]I just don't care about the evening news
[00:17.85]I never listen to the crackhouse blues
[00:21.25]They say the city is the place to be
[00:24.80]I wanna dance with Emily
[00:28.42]Everybody come around the window shop
[00:31.73]I guess they never seen the moves I got
[00:35.67]I wanna be with what the people see
[00:39.01]I wanna dance with Emily
[00:42.39]Emily, sweet baby, won't you be my wife
[00:45.93]Cutting me wide open with a kitchen knife
[00:49.25]Everybody said that she is underage
[00:52.90]Honky tried to shoot me with a 7 gage
[00:57.02]Now I got the cookies that your momma sent
[00:59.47]I got permission from the government
[01:03.38]Someone should mention to the minister
[01:06.76]Now I gotta dance with Jennifer
[01:10.63]Jenny's got a mousehole full of pigeon scum
[01:14.27]On top a mountain made of bubble gum
[01:17.82]Don't understand what all the grief is for
[01:21.32]Now I gotta dance with Eleanor
[01:24.96]Eleanor, I wonder if we grew too slow
[01:27.91]Straight down the hatch beneath the streetlight's glow
[01:31.87]Baby when I get you on that persian rug
[01:35.02]That's the kind of movie that I'm dreaming of
[01:50.60]I'll tell you something that you'd think I know
[02:10.20]I got two tickets to the sold out show
[02:13.54]Some of the fellas like to think I'm Greek
[02:17.17]I wanna love you maybe three days a week
[02:20.60]I just don't care about the evening news
[02:23.95]I never listen to the crackhouse blues
[02:27.86]I wanna be with what the people see
[02:31.70]I wanna dance with Emily
[02:35.28]I wanna dance with Emily
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