now if you ve ever been down to new orleans then you can understand just what i mean now all through the week it s quiet as a mouse but on saturday night they go from house to house you don t have to pay the usual admission if you re a cook or a waiter or a good musician so if you happen to be just passin by stop in at the saturday night fish fry it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn now my buddy and me was on the main stem foolin around just me and him we decided we could use a little something to eat so we went to a house on rampart street we knocked on the door and it opened with ease and a lush little miss said come in please and before we could even bat an eye we were right in the middle of a big fish fry it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn  now the folks was havin the time of their life and sam was jivin jimmy s wife and over in the corner was a beat up grand being played by a big fat piano man now some of the chicks wore expensive frocks some of them had on bobbie socks but everybody was nice and high at this particular saturday night fish fry it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn now my buddy and me we fell right in and we hollered let the joy begin now we figured this was a good place to play cause the party was already underway but all of the sudden the lights went low and everybody made straight for the front door man i was so scared i didn t know where to go i stood right there then i fell on the floor it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn now the women was screamin and jumpin and yellin the bottles was flyin and the fish was smellin and way above all the noise we made somebody hollered better get outta here this is a raid i didn t know we were breaking the law but somebody reached over and hit me on the jaw now they had us blocked off from front to back and they were puttin em in the wagon like potato sacks it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn i knew i could get away if i had a chance but i was shakin like i had the st vitus dance now i tried to crawl in under a bath tab when a policeman said where are you goin there bub now they got us out of there like a house on fire and put us all in the black mariah now they might have missed a pitiful few but they got both me and my buddy too it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn we headed for jail in a dazed condition they booked each one of us on suspicion now my chick came down and with my bail and finally got me outta that rotten jail now if you ever want to get a fist in your eye just mention a saturday night fish fry i don t care how many fish in the sea but don t ever mention a fish to me it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn it was rockin it was rockin you never seen such scufflin and shufflin til the break of dawn give me one of them there fish sandwiches get away from there boy yowza 
['big band', 'jazz blues', 'rhythm and blues', 'swing']