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I'm getting ready for the function at the 
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Junction and baby you'd better come on 
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Right now
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Because everybody's gonna be there, we got 
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People comin' from everywhere
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We got Ling Ting Tong from China, Long Tall 
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Sally from Carolina
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We got 007, the private eye, and he's bringin' 
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All the guys from "I Spy."

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Come one, come all, we gonna have a ball down 
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At the function at the junction
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And baby you'd better come on right now

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We serving egg foo yung and barbecue, having 
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Chicken dumplings and kidney stew
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Having heap big fun till the break of dawn
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Gonna shake a tailfeather, 'shoot 'im 'fore he run.'
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Hold a shotgun on the rooster and dare him to crow
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How could anybody sleep when they could get out 
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On the floor?

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Tell him, tell them, tell one and tell 'em all
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Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction
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Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now
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Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction
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Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now

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Oh, the soul brothers, Jitterbugs, hip cats and 
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Fancy hats and pretty girls with pretty smiles
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All decked out in the latest styles

And Farmer Jim and Guitar Slim and Betty Boop and 
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Ooo-boop-e-doop and Mohair Sam from Alabam
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And Minnesota Fats from Hobo Flats
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Breath-takin' Hip-shakin' give it now, talkin' bout 

Some fascinatin' demonstratin here tonight

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They all be gathering here, from far and near for 
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The Function at the Junction
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Brother, you'd better come on right now
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Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction
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Sister, you'd better come on right now
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Talkin' 'bout a function at the junction
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Everybody, you'd better come on right now