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Artist: Sam Cooke
Canonical path: /sam-cooke/camptown-twist
Related lyric paths: 6
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Camptown Twist
Read Camptown Twist lyrics by Sam Cooke on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Camptown Twist
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now the camptown ladies they sing this song (doo dah)
they say the camptown racetrack five miles long
I've come down here to see the horses run
and if I don't make money I'll have some fun
because we're gonna twist all night
we're gonna twist all day
if I don't make some money I'll have some fun
twistin' the night away
now the longtailed filly and the big black horse
they tried too take a shortcut and couldn't get across
the black horse stick in a big muddy hole
and the filly wound up around a ten foot pole
I don't care
we're gonna twist all night
we're gonna twist all day
if I don't make some money I'll have some fun
twistin' the night away
you oughtta seem them fly on the ten mile heat
they go round the racetrack and then repeat
now I win my money and the bobtailed neck
I'm gonna keep my money in an old shoebag
we're gonna twist all night
we're gonna twist all day
since I done won this money I'm gonna have some fun
twistin' the night away
we're gonna twist all night
we're gonna twist all day
since I done won this money I'm gonna have some fun
twistin' the night away
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