Lyrics : Mud Rock

Released September 1974 | RAK Records SRAK 508

Produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn for Chinnichap Ltd

Album details

Rocket

(spoken) Now this here’s the story of Abigail Rocket-Blast.

Just wanna tell you

Well, well you changed your name to Abigail Rocket-Blast

And then they wound you up for the Hollywood movie test

With all them big cigars and motor cars

She thought she was a movie star

But Abigail Blast you sure are changing fast

You, you, you were just sixteen you were knocking on the agent’s door

Because, because, because the silver screen is what a movie queen lives for

They gave you minks and dreams, and pinks and greens

You threw away your old blue jeans

But Abigail Blast they’re using you

Come on, come on, come on now

Chorus

Rocket - I’m gonna launch you soon

C’mon now Rocket
You’re gonna reach the moon

You’re gonna take off soon, you’re gonna reach the moon

You know your time’ll come

I’ll give you 3-2-1!

Now Rocket, I’m gonna launch you soon

Second verse

I saw you sitting in a soda store with all the cast-off Stardust falls

Where they write their names on the floor and hang their photographs on the walls.

Oh but to me you’ve still got sweet sixteen

I’m getting rid of Abigail Blast

I’ll call you Rocket, cut the past.

Come on, come on, come on, come on now

Chorus

Break

You’re gonna take off soon, you’re gonna reach the moon

You’ll know when your time has come
I’ll give you 3 - 2 - 1!

Now Rocket, I’m gonna launch you soon

Come on,m come on, now Rocket

I’m gonna launch you soon.

Come on, come on, come on, come on now Rocket

You’re gonna reach the moon

Come on, come on, come on now Rocket

I’m gonna launch you soon

Well, well, well Rocket

I’m gonna launch you soon

Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman (BMG Music publishing Limited)

Do You Love Me / Sha La La La Lee

(spoken)
You broke my heart ’cos I couldn’t dance.

You didn’t even want me around.

But now I’m back (ooh my bloody finger)

To let you know that I can really shake ’em down.

One, two, one, two three

Do you love me? (I can really move)
Do you love me? I'm in the groove

Do you love me? (Do you really love me)

Now that I can dance?

Watch me now (Push, push)

Shake it up, shake it up (Push push)

Shake it shake it down now (push push)

Just a little bit of soul now

Like a mashed potato (mashed potato)

I can do the twist (do the twist)

Will you tell me baby

Do you like it like this?

Oh tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.

Do you love me? (Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya wanna dance?)

Do you love me? (Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya wanna dance?)

Do you love me? (Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya wanna dance?)

Picked her up on a Friday night

Sha le la le la la le.

I knew everything was gonna be all right

Sha lee la lee la la lee.

Sha lee la lee la la lee.

Took her home and I asked her again if she was gonna be my baby

She looked so good when she answered me

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Sha le la le la le la la lee

Do you love me ?

Sha le la le la le la la lee

Do you love me ?

Sha le la le la le la la lee

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Let me see you clap your hands

Do you love me?

Keep in time with the band

Do you love me?

I hope you're feeling fine

Do you love me?

Sing it one more time

Do you love me?

Do you love me now that I can dance?

Written by Gordy - Lynch/Shuman

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Running Bear

On the banks of the river stood Running Bear,

Young Indian brave.

On the other side of the river stood his lovely Indian maid.

Little White Dove was her name.

Such a lovely sight to see.

But their tribes fought with each other

So their love could never be.

Chorus

Running Bear, loved Little White Dove

With a love as big as the sky.

Running Bear, loved Little White Dove

With a love that wouldn't die.

He couldn't swim the ragging river

’Cos the river was too wide.

He couldn't reach his Little White Dove

Waiting on the other side.

In the moonlight he could see her

Blowing kisses across the waves.

Her little heart was beating faster

Waiting there for her brave.

Chorus

Break

Running Bear dove in the water.

Little White Dove did the same.

And they swam out to each other

Through the swirling stream they came.

As their hands touched and their lips met

The ragging river pulled them down.

Now they'll always be together in that happy hunting ground

Chorus

Break

Chorus

Written by Richardson

Hippy Hippy Shake

For goodness sake.

I’ve got the hippy hippy shake.

Yeah I got the shakes,

I’ve got the hippy, hippy shake.

Oh, I can’t sit still

With the hippy hippy shake.

Yeah I got my fill now

With the hippy hippy shake.

Yeah it’s in the bag.

Oh, the hippy hippy shake

Well now you shake it to the left,

You shake it to the right

You do the hippy shake shake with all your might

All right, come on and shake

Oh it’s in the bag

Oh the hippy hippy shake

Break

Well now you shake it to the left,

You shake it to the right

You do the hippy shake shake with all your might

For goodness sake.

I’ve got the hippy hippy shake

Yeah I got the shakes

I’ve got the hippy, hippy shake.

Oh, I can’t sit still

With the hippy hippy shake

Yeah I got my fill now

With the hippy hippy shake

Yeah it’s in the bag.

Oh, the hippy hippy shake

Oh, the hippy hippy shake

Oh, the hippy hippy shake

Written by Romero

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Shake Rattle And Roll/See You Later Alligator

Get out of that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans.

Get out of that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans.

Roll my bgreakfast ’cos I’m a hungry man.

I said Shake, Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

You never do nothing to save your goddamned soul.

I’m like a one-eyed cat peeping in a seafood store

I’m like a one-eyed cat peeping in a seafood store

I could look at you ’til you don’t love me no more.

I said Shake, Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

I said Shake Rattle And Roll.

You never do nothing to save your goddamned soul.

When I saw my baby walking, well I know I gotta date.

When I saw my baby walking, well I know I gotta date.

When I asked what’s the matter, this is what I heard her say.

See you later alligator.

After a while crocodile.

See you later alligator,

After a while crocodile.

Can’t you see your in my way now.

Don ’t you know you cramp my style.

I said wait a minute ’gator, I know you mean it just for play.

I said wait a minute ’gator, I know you mean it just for play.

Don ’t you know you really hurt me.

This is what I had to stay.

See you later alligator.

After a while crocodile.

See you later alligator,

After a while crocodile.

Can’t you see your in my way now.
Don ’t you know you cramp my style.

Repeat to fade

Written by Calhoun/Guidry (Campbell Connelly & Co Ltd/Box & Co Publ Ltd)

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The End Of The World

Why does the sun go on shining?

Why does the sea rush to shore?

Don't know it's the end of the world

’cos you don't love me anymore?

Why do the birds go on singing?

Why do the stars glow above?

Don't they know it's the end of the world

It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder

Why everything’s the same as it was.

I can’t understand, no I can’t understand how life goes on the way it does.

Why does my heart go on beating?

Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world,

It ended when you said goodbye.

(spoken): Why does my heart go on beating?

Why do these eyes of mine cry?

Don’t they know it’s the end of the world

(sung): It ended when you said goodbye.

I wake up in the morning and I wonder

Why everything’s the same as it was

I can’t understand, no I can’t understand how life goes on the way it does.

Why does my heart go on beating?

Why do these eyes of mine cry?

Don’t they know it’s the end of the world

It ended when you said goodbye

Oh don’t, don't they know it’s the end of the world

It ended when you said goodbye.

Written by Dee and Kent

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Blue Moon

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Some one I really could care for.

And then you suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms could ever hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked the moon had turned to gold.

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own.

Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

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Bye Bye Johnny

She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust

And put her little boy aboard a greyhound bus.

Leavin’ Louisianne for the golden west,

Down came her tears from her happiness.

Her own little some named Johnney B Goode

Was going to make some motion pictures down in Hollywood

Chorus

And sing bye bye, bye bye.

Bye bye, bye bye.

Bye bye Johnney, goodebye Johnny B Goode.

She remembered taking money in from gathering crops

And buying Johnny’s guitar from the brokers shop.

As long as he was playing by the railroad side.

Wouldn ’t get in trouble, she’d be satisfied.

She never thought that there would come a day like this

When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss.

Chorus

She finally got the letter she was dreaming of

Cos Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love.

As soon as he was married he would bring her back

And build a mansion for her by the railroad side.

So everytime she heard the locomotive roar

She be standing,waiting at the kitchen door.

Chorus – repeat and fade.

Written by Chuck Berry (Jewel Music Publishing Co Ltd)

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