LP DISCOGRAPHY - COVERS & LYRICS

Log in

News

Updates daily...

Bill Haley

Rockin' The Joint

Decca DL-8755
Aug / 1958

Produced by Milt Gabler

Cover image of Rockin' The Joint

Bill Haley - vocal/guitar
Franny Beecher - guitar
Billy Williamson - steel
Al Rex - bass
Cliff Leeman, Ralph Jones - drums
Johnny Grande - piano/accordion
Rudy Pompilly - sax
Recorded:
1957, Decca Studio, New York City

1.

New Rock The Joint

Harry Crafton - Don Keene - Doc Bagby

© Peer Int, BMI

We're gonna rock rock this joint
We're gonna rock rock this joint
We're gonna rock rock this joint
We're gonna rock this joint tonight

Well six times six is thirty-six
I ain't gonna hit for six more licks

We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock this joint tonight

Do the beetle-bop right side by side
Flying low and flying wide

We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock this joint tonight

Well seven times five is thirty-five
Man-oh-man-oh-man alive

We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock this joint tonight

Go-go-go go-go-go go-go-go go-go-go

Well little boy blue come blow your horn
The cats in the meadow gonna rock till morn'

We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock (hey rock) rock this joint
We're gonna rock this joint tonight

**********

2.

Move It On Over

Hank Williams

© Fred Rose Music, BMI


*****

3.

How Many

Hal Blair - Howard Barnes

© Jamie Music, BMI

If all the guys you ever knew
Were lined in columns two by two
Then I wonder (wonder) just how many there would be

And if all the guys you ever kissed
Were marked on paper on a list
Then I wonder (wonder) just how many there would be

Well there must have been a million
For everywhere you go
You seem so well acquainted everybody says "hello"

And if I could count all the broken hearts
Like mine would be if we should part
Then I wonder (wonder) just how many there would be

Well there must have been a million
For everywhere you go
You seem so well acquainted everybody says "hello"

And if I could count all the broken hearts
Like mine would be if we should part
Then I wonder (wonder) just how many there would be

**********

4.

See You Later Alligator

Robert Guirdy

© Box And Cox Music, BMI

Well I saw my baby walkin'
With another man today
Well I saw my baby walkin'
With another man today
When I asked her what's the matter
This is what I heard her say

See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

When I thought of what she told me
Nearly made me lose my head
When I thought of what she told me
Nearly made me lose my head
But the next time that I saw her
Reminded her of what she said

See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

She said I'm sorry pretty daddy
You know my love is just for you
She said I'm sorry pretty daddy
You know my love is just for you
Won't you say that you'll forgive me
And say your love for me is true

I said wait a minute 'gator
I know you mean it just for play
I said wait a minute 'gator
I know you mean it just for play
Don't you know you really hurt me
And this is what I have to say

See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

See you later Alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later Alligator
So long
That's all
Goodbye

**********

5.

Beak Speaks

Franny Beecher - Billy Williamson

© Keefer-Kinder Music, BMI


*****

6.

Forty Cups Of Coffee

Danny Overby

© Peer Int, BMI

Pace the floor stop and stare
I drink a cup of coffee
Start to pulling out my hair

I drink forty cups of coffee
Forty cups of coffee
Forty cups of coffee
Waiting for you to come home

A quarter to twelve
And you're still not in
The way you run around
Is a doggone sin

Forty cups of coffee
Forty cups of coffee
Forty cups of coffee

A quarter to three
I start watching the clock
The phone won't ring
So I'm waiting for your knock

A quarter to four
You ain't got home yet
I try to be cool
And smoke a cigarette

You knock on the door
About a quarter to five
I wanna hug you and kiss you
And say thank God that you're alive

I drank forty cups of coffee
(Forty cups of coffee)
Forty cups of coffee
(Forty cups of coffee)
Forty cups of coffee
But I'm glad you finally came home

**********

7.

The Saints Rock'n Roll

Bill Haley - Milt Gabler

© USI A Music, ASCAP

Rock and rolling all the day
Rock and rolling all the way
Rock and rolling to the end
Til' the saints go marching in

Oh when the saints go marching in
Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in

Now when old Frank comes swinging in
When old Franny swinging in
Well I want to be in that number
When old Franny swinging in

Now when the sax begins to wail
When old Rudy starts to wail
Well I want to be in that number
When old Rudy starts to wail

Oh when the rhythm starts to go
When that rhythm starts to go
Well I want to be in that number
When that rhythm starts to go

Oh when the band play rock 'n' roll
When the Comets rock and roll
Well I want to be in that number
When the Comets rock and roll

**********

8.

Sway With Me

Bill Haley - Milt Gabler - Rusty Keefer

© USI A Music, ASCAP

Sway with me
Sway with me
It will be heavenly
Heavenly sway with me

Hold me tight
Hold me tight
Make tonight
Sweet delight
Say you'll stay
Sway with me

Sway
Sway
Sway
Stay
Heavenly
Sway with me

Sway with me
Sway with me
It will be heavenly
Heavenly sway with me

Hold me tight
Hold me tight
Make tonight
Sweet delight
Say you'll stay
Sway with me

**********

9.

It's A Sin

Fred Rose - Zeb Turner

© Milene Music, ASCAP

It's a sin my darlin' how I love you
Because I know our love can never be
It's a sin to keep this memory of you
When silence proves that you've forgotten me

The dream I built for us has tumbled
Each promise has been broken like my heart
It's a sin my darlin' how I love you
So much in love and yet so far apart

The dream I built for us has tumbled
Each promise has been broken like my heart
It's a sin my darlin' how I love you
So much in love and yet so far apart

**********

10.

Burn That Candle

Winfield Scott

© Roosevelt Music, BMI

Keep that candle burnin' bright mother
I'll be kinda late tonight mother
There's a yellow moon above mother
Shinin' on the one I love mother

Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle light my way
Keep that doorway open wide
Till I'm strollin' thru that doorway with my bride

While that candle's burnin' high mother
I'll be with my sugar pie mother
We'll be comin' home you know mother
Lookin' for that candle glow mother

Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle light my way
Keep that doorway open wide
Till I'm strollin' thru that doorway with my bride

After we have had the wedding mother
To the candle we'll be headin mother
So before we're winin' dinin' mother
Start that candle light a shinin' mother

Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle light my way
Keep that doorway open wide
Till I'm strollin' thru that doorway with my bride

**********

11.

Rock Lomond

Susan Heather

© Ludlow Music, BMI


*****

12.

Rip It Up

Otis Blackwell - John Marascalco

© Venice Music, BMI

Let's rip it up

Well Saturday night
And I just got paid
Fool about my money
Don't try to save

My heart says
Go go have a time
'Cause it's Saturday night
And baby I feel fine

I'm gonna rock it up
I'm gonna rip it up
I'm gonna shake it up
I'm gonna break it up
I'm gonna lock it up
At the ball tonight

Well I got me a baby
And I won't be late
Pick her up in my 88

A shag going down
By the social hall
When the joint starts jumping
Gonna have me a ball

Well along about ten
I'm breezing high
I walk on out to
That groovy sky

But I don't care
If I spend my dough
'Cause tonight I'm gonna be
One happy soul

Well Saturday night
And I just got paid
Fool about my money
Don't try to save

My heart says
Go go have a time
'Cause it's Saturday night
And baby I feel fine

Well along about ten
I'm breezing high
I walk on out to
That groovy sky

But I don't care
If I spend my dough
'Cause tonight I'm gonna be
One happy soul

**********



© 1999-2026, LPD, Prague, Czech Republic, EU, petrv@yahoo.com
Developed by JVG