Mess Around - Ray Charles, Mickey Baker, Connie Kay

Ahhh you can talk about the pit

barbeque

the band was jumping

the people too

ahhh mess around

they doin' the mess around

they doin' the mess around

everybody’s doin' the mess around

ahhh everybody was juiced

you can bet your soul

they did the boogie woogie

with a steady roll

they mess around

they doin' the mess around

they doin' the mess around

everybody doin' the mess around

now uh, when i say stop

don’t you move a peg

when i say go

just uh, shake your leg

and do the mess around

I declare do the mess around

yeah do the mess around

everybody’s doin' the mess around

Now let me have it there boy (over piano solo)

Now you got it boy (over saxaphone solo)

Oh mess around (over saxaphone solo)

Mess around boy (over saxaphone solo)

Now this band’s gonna play from

everybody here’s gonna

have some fun

doin' the mess around

ahhh doin' the mess around

they doin' the mess around

everybody’s doin' the mess around

now you see that girl

with that diamond ring

she knows how to

shake that thing

mess around

I declare she can mess around

ahhh mess around

everybody do the mess around