san francisco to chicago right through philly new york s doing dix a billy dressed in dirty white bucks and blue jeans new orleans the kids are doing a dance they call a dix a billy they don t need a real dance floor they just scatter some straw and then they get a trombone to wail a dix a billy see them groovin really movin man alive in hands a jivin dix a billy take a honky tonk piano played in a southern manner make it rock with a northern beat a dix a billy watch them struttin and kickin it beats doin the chicken no one leaves til the rooster crows a dix a billy hear that singin feel that rhythm love that music they re all doing dix a billy dix a billy dix a billy oh dix a billy dix a billy