Dear Lady Twist:Gary (US) Bonds.
#9 on LEGRANDE Records in 1962.
INTRO:
D G
Get up a-from your chair..(x4)
(SPOKEN AD LIB:) (By Bonds with INTRO in background.)
Darling, may I have the pleasure of having this next
Twist with you?
(FEMALE REPLY:) But I don't know how to Twist.
(BONDS:)You don't know how to Twist? Well, let me tell you!
#1.
D G
Well, now, there's a new dance that's known as the Twist..
A D
it's really not new, it's somethin' you`ve missed.
D G
But there's a new dance, that's known as the Twist.
A D
It's really not new, it's somethin' you've missed.
Dear lady!!..
CHORUS:
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.) Dear, dear lady..
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
G A
Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
A D
do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.
#2.
D G A
Well, one night I happened to go to a dance..believin'
D
I'd find me some romance.
D G A
And this old lady I happened to see..I said, come on, baby,
D
do the Twist with me.
Dear lady!!..
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CHORUS:
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.) Awww, dear lady..
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
G A
Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
A D
do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.
(INTERLUDE:SAX:) D G A D (x2)
(BACKGROUND:) (Get up from your chair.)
(BONDS: (Baby, yeah..C'mon, pretty baby..Get up an' do
the Twist now..yes, oh, yes!)
#3.
D G
Well, I said, I'd love to dance from now until dawn.
A D
She said, crazy, baby, but I'm almost gone.
D G
I said, now the rhythm is getting real sweet..
A D
but this is no time to slow up your feet.
Dear lady!!..
CHORUS:
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.) dear, dear lady..
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
G A
Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
A D
do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.
OUTRO:
D
You gotta do the Twist!..yeah, petty baby!
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
D
You gotta do the Twist!..Get up, c'mon, an' get up!
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
D
Get up, pretty baby!..Come on! Come on!
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
D
Get up an' do the Twist!..Do the Twist now, baby!
D G
(Get up a-from your chair.)
D
Get up, dear lady, yeah!..Come, come on!..Dear lady!(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
