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Ross Wilson: Music

Daddy Cool

(Daddy Cool)
August 5, 2011
Frank Slay/Bob Crewe

DADDY COOL        (Slay / Crewe)

 

Oh well I saw a crazy chick a-walkin’ down the street

I said “A-hey pretty baby why the ready beat?”

She said “Wow, what a square, don’t you dig the scene?

Daddy Cool’s a-playin’ on his music machine!”

 

Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!

Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!

 

A-Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Cool Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Cool Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool Daddy Coo-ool

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Uh-a-huh Uh-a-huh

 

She took me by the hand down to the railroad track

There in a tin-roof honky tonk Cool Daddy shook the shack

The joint was dim & dark except for one spotlight

A-shinin’ on a frantic band they rocked like dynamite

 

A-Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Coo-ool Daddy

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Coo-ool Daddy

Daddy Cool Daddy Coo-ool

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Uh-a-huh Uh-a-huh

 

Rock Cool Daddy honky tonky Daddy  (x 5)

Rock rock rock rock rock!

 

Guitar solo

 

The rhythm was so gone I said “Come on let’s dance”

And as I held her in my arms I knew I’d found romance

But then they closed the club so I took my baby home

And now I see her every night, she says that I’m her own

 

A-Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Coo-ool Daddy

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Coo-ool Daddy

Daddy Cool Daddy Coo-ool

Daddy Cool Daddy Cool

Uh-a-huh Uh-a-huh

Uh-a-huh