Function At The Junction

(Fredrick Long/Edward Holland, Jr. )



I'm getting ready for the function at the junction

And baby, you'd better come on right now

Because everybody's gonna be there

We got people comin' from everywhere

We got Ling Ting Tong from China

Long Tall Sally from Carolina

We got 007, the private eye

And he's bringin' all the guys from "I Spy"

Come one, come all, we gonna have a ball

Down at the function at the junction

And baby you'd better come on right now

We serving egg foo yung and barbecue

Chicken & dumplings, hey, we got some kidney stew

We gonna make big fun till the break of dawn

Gonna shake a tailfeather shoot, it's gonna be a run

Hold a shotgun on a rooster, and dare him to crow

Tell anybody sleepin' say get out on the floor

Tell him, tell them, tell one and tell 'em all

Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction

Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now

Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction

Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now

Oh, the soul brothers, Jitterbugs

Hip cats and fancy hats

And pretty girls with pretty smiles

All decked out in the latest styles

Farmer Jim and Guitar Slim

Betty Boop and ooo-boop-de-doop

Mohair Sam from Alabam

Minnesota Fats from Hobo Flats

Gravitatin', hip-shakin' cuties now

Talkin' 'bout fascinatin', demostratin' beauties now

They all gathering here, from far and near

For the function at the junction

Brother, you'd better come on right now

Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction

Sister, you'd better come on right now

Talkin' 'bout the function at the junction

Everybody, you'd better come on right now