Lyrics
What's Shakin' Tonight
Expressing curiosity about current events or situations.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Repetition for emphasis, maintaining interest in the subject.
Hey pretty baby What's Shakin' Tonight?
Greeting and asking what is happening or exciting tonight.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Reiteration of the question about current events or excitement.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Emphasizing the ongoing curiosity about the night's happenings.
Hey pretty baby What's Shakin' Tonight?
Repeating the greeting and inquiry, maintaining a lively tone.
Slap on some rouge, show your tatoos,
Suggesting preparation for a night out, involving makeup and display of tattoos.
Put on your patent leather highheel shoes.
Encouraging the wearing of stylish high-heeled shoes, possibly for a night of entertainment.
Moon out tonight, you're lookin' just right,
Noticing the favorable appearance under the moonlight and expressing a desire for excitement.
I feel like messin' with dynamite!
Conveying a willingness to engage in risky or daring activities, comparing it to messing with dynamite.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Repeating the inquiry about the night's happenings, maintaining the lively and curious tone.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Reiteration for emphasis, emphasizing the ongoing curiosity.
Hey pretty baby What's Shakin' Tonight?
Restating the greeting and inquiry with enthusiasm.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Repetition for emphasis, maintaining the lively and curious tone.
What's Shakin' Tonight
Emphasizing the persistent curiosity about the night's events.
Hey pretty baby What's Shakin' Tonight?
Repeating the greeting and inquiry, sustaining the enthusiastic tone.
Come on pretty babe let's put some wind in our ears.
Encouraging a companion to join in and enjoy the night, using the metaphor of putting wind in one's ears.
We got the thing movin' now we just gotta steer.
Expressing momentum and a sense of control in the current situation, suggesting steering the course.
Tell the folks back at work that we just gone beserk
Suggesting a departure from conventional behavior and jokingly advising the boss to find a new perspective.
Bossman, find yourself a new kind of jerk.
Encouraging boldness and pushing limits, possibly in a rebellious or adventurous context.
Rip out reverse, strain every nerve
Using automotive imagery to convey pushing limits and straining every effort.
Ram it to the red line don't let it swerve.
Continuing the automotive theme, urging to push to the maximum without deviating.
Spin it around, swim it or drown.
Suggesting a choice between success and failure, using the metaphor of swimming or drowning.
I smell the deisel in the Border Town.
Ending with a reference to a distinctive smell, possibly indicating a location near the Border Town.
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