The Twist:Chubby Checker.
#1 on BB Hot 100 on PARKWAY Records
in 1960. (Cover of Hank Ballard's hit in 1958.)
INTRO: [B] [A] [E]
#1.
[E]
Come on baby, let's do the twist,
[A] [E]
come on baby, let's do the twist,
[B] [E]
take ya by your little hand and go like this.
CHORUS:
[E] [A] [E]
E-yeah, twist baby, twist. Ooo..yeah...just like this,
[B] [A] [E]
come on, little miss, and do the twist.
#2.
[E] [E]
My daddy is sleepin' and mama ain't around,
[A]
yeah, daddy is just sleepin' and mama ain't around,
[B] [A]
we're gonna twist n' twist n' twist, 'til we tear the house
[E]
down.
CHORUS:
[E] [A]
Come on and twist, yeah, baby, twist, ooo-oooo, yeah just
[E] [B] [A] [E]
like this, come on, little miss, and do the twist.
INTERLUDE: [E] [A] [E] [B] [A] [E]
(Round and around and around...)
#3.
[E]
Yeah, you should see my little Sis,
[A] [E]
you should see my, my little Sis,
[B] [A] [E]
she really knows how to rock, she knows how to twist.
[E] [A] [E]
Come on and twist, yeah baby twist, oooo-yeah just like this,
[B] [A] [E]
come on, little miss, and do the twist.
OUTRO:
[E]
(Round and around and around and around) Yeah.
(Round and around and around and around) that's alright.
[A]
(Round and around and around and around) Yeah.
[E]
(Round and around and around and around) Twist so nice.
[B]
(Round and around and around and around) Twist......
[E]
(Round and around and around and around)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.