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Flip Flop and Fly

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Count Basie Canonical path: /count-basie/flip-flop-and-fly Related lyric paths: 6

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Flip Flop and Fly

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Now when I get the blues, I get me a rockin' chair

When I get the blues, I get me a rockin' chair

Well, if the blues overtake me gonna rock right away from here

Now when I get lonesome, I jump on the telephone

When I get lonesome, I jump on the telephone

I call my baby, tell her I'm on my way back home

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye

Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time

Give me one more kiss, hold it a long long time

Now love me baby, till the feelin' hits my head like wine

Here comes my baby, flashin' her new gold tooth

Here comes my baby, flashin' her new gold tooth

Well she's so small, she can mambo in a pay phone booth

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Ah, don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye

I'm like a mississippi bullfrog, sittin' on a hollow stump

I'm like a mississippi bullfrog, sittin' on a hollow stump

I got so many women, I don't know which way to jump

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now flip, flop and fly

I don't care if I die

Now, don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye

Oh my!

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