Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On

Track 5 on The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology: All Killer No Filler!

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This song was written by Dave “Curlee” Williams and James Faye “Roy” Hall and originally recorded by Big Maybelle, but the cover by Jerry Lee Lewis is the best known. It… Read More

Apr. 15, 19571 viewer38.3K views

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Well, come on over, baby
Whole lot of shakin' goin' on
Yes, I said come on over, baby
Baby, you can't go wrong
We ain't fakin'
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

Well, I said come on over baby
We got chicken in the barn, woo-huh
Come on over, baby
Really got the bull by the horn
We ain't fakin'
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

[Chorus]
Well, I said shake, baby, shake
I said shake, baby, shake
I said shake it, baby, shake it
I said shake, baby, shake
Come on over
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Ah, let's go

[Piano Solo]

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]
Yeah, come on over, baby
We got chicken in the barn
Whose barn? What barn? My barn
Come on over, baby
Really got the bull by the horn
We ain't fakin'
Whole lot of shakin' going on

[Chorus]
Easy now
Shake
Ahh, shake it, baby, yeah
You can shake one time for me
Come over, baby
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

[Spoken]
Now real low, one time, now
Shake, baby, shake
All you gotta do, honey
Is kinda stand in one spot
And wiggle around just a little bit
And that's when you got something, yeah
Well, you got to shake it for me

Now let's go one time

[Chorus]
Shake it, baby, shake it
Shake it, baby, shake, ooh
Come on, baby
Shake, baby, shake it
Come on over
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

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This song was written by Dave “Curlee” Williams and James Faye “Roy” Hall and originally recorded by Big Maybelle, but the cover by Jerry Lee Lewis is the best known. It might be so because Lewis' interpreta-tion is downright lascivious. By the time he get’s to “got the bull by the horn” everyone under-stands he’s not talking about the barnyard here.

The audio file here is from the 1989 movie, and it’s meant to convey the experience of hearing Lewis in a roadhouse performance. For compari-son, here’s a video of the real Jerry Lee per-forming the song on the Steve Allen show in 1957: