the warden threw a party in the county jail the prison band was there they began to wail judge started jumping the band began to sway you shoulda heard those knocked out jailbirds sing let s rock everybody let s rock everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock shifty henry said to bugs for heaven s sakes no one s looking now s our chance to make a break bugsy looked at henry and he said nix nix i wanna stick around a while gonna get my kicks let s rock everybody let s rock everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock now was sack sitting on top of a load sitting in the corner on a block of stone the warden said hey buddy don t you be no square you can t find a partner use a wooden chair let s rock everybody let s rock everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock spider murphy played his tenor saxophone little joe was blowing on his slide trombone the drummer rode the rhythm went crash boom bang the whole rhythm section was the purple gang  let s rock everybody let s rock everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock baby help me out going to break out 