Just got back from the downtown palais

Where the music was so sweet

It knocked me right back in the alley

I'm ready, yea, yea, yea, I'm ready,

Wo, wo, wo, I'm ready

And I'm really gonna rock tonight.



Sweet little lady sings like a songbird

And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard,

But she ain't ready,

No, no, no, she ain't ready

No, no, no, she ain't ready,

And she ain't gonna rock & roll



CHORUS

She's sweet on Wagner,

I think she'd die for Beethoven,

She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,

And Verdi's always creeping from her room



Come on I'll show you how to sing the blues

Now baby, come on over you got nothin' to lose,

Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you ready

Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready

I wanna show you how to rock and roll.



Now listen here baby she, said to me

Just, meet me at the opera house at a quarter to three,

'Cos I'm ready, yea, yea, yea, I'm ready,

Woo, hoo, hoo, I'm ready,

I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues.



CHORUS -- repeat



Far, far away the music is playing.



Well we were reelin' and a rockin' all through the night,

Yea we were rockin' at the opera house until the break of light,

And the orchestra were playin' all Chuck Berry's greatest tunes.

And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues,

And as the night grew older everybody was

As one,

The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song

Just to hear the opera singer singin' rock & roll so pure,

I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn't really sure,

But it's alright.