Kokomo Arnold The Twelves
Says I want everybody : fall in line
Shake your shimmy : like I'm shaking mine
You shake your shimmy : shake it fast
If you can't shake your shimmy : shake your yas yas yas
Says *I am* with your mama : out across the field
Slipping and a‑sliding : just like an automobile
I hollered at your mama : I told her to wait
She slipped away from me : just like a Cadillac Eight
Say I like your mama : sister too
I did like your papa : but your papa wouldn't do
I met your papa : around the corner the other day
I soon found out : that he was funny that a‑way
Says I went out yonder : New Orleans
The wildcat jumped : on the sewing machine
The sewing machine : sewed so fast
Sewed ninety‑nine stitches : up his yas yas yas
Says God made Adam : made him stout
He wasn't satisfied : until he made him a snout
He made him a snout : just as long as a rail
He wasn't satisfied : until he made him a tail
He made him a tail : just to fan the flies
He wasn't satisfied : until he made him some eyes
He made him some eyes : just to look on the grass
He wasn't satisfied : then he made his yas yas yas
He made his yas yas yas : so he couldn't get a trick
He wasn't satisfied : until he made him sick
He made him sick : and then made him well
You know by that : the big boy's coughing in hell
