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Artist: Michelle Shocked
Canonical path: /michelle-shocked/the-hep-cat
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The Hep Cat
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The Hep Cat
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He's a bop bop beat
Aw, he's so cool
He's so hep
He ain't nobody's fool
I'm talking about a hep cat
He's so bop bop beat
He's been around, cats
He's wise to the street
He's wise to the street
He's so wise to the street
He's a conga-bonga
He's the King of Tonga
He's a saxaphone-playing fool
That'll rattle your bones
Oh, he's a hep cat
Of the first degree
He's like, wow, man
And it really makes me flip when he
Calls me 'Bay-bee'
Boom-chicka boom-chicka
Don't you just love it, chicka?
Aw, he's so cool
It makes me hot
He's everything that I am not
'Cause he's a hep cat
He's so bop bop beat
He's been around, cats
He's wise to the street
He's wise to the street
He's so wise to the street
Aw, he's so cool
He ain't nobody's fool
He's so hep
It makes me flip
He knows where it's at
'Cause he's a hep cat, a hep cat, a hep cat
Oh yeah
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