Just let me hear some of that rock & roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Gotta be rock & roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me

I've got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
And change the beauty of the melody
Until they sound just like a symphony

That's why I go for that rock & roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Gotta be rock & roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me

I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks
So she could hear my man a-wailin' sax
I must admit they have a rockin' band
Man, they were blowing like a hurricane
That's why I go for that rock & roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Gotta be rock & roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me

Way down south they give a jubilee
The jokey folks they had a jamboree
They're drinkin' homebrew from a wooden cup
The folks dancin' got all shook up

And started playing that rock & roll music
Any old time you use it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Gotta be rock & roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me

Don't care to hear them play a tango
I'm in the mood to hear a mambo
It's way too early for the congo
So keep a-rockin' that piano
That's why I go for that rock & roll music
Any old time you use it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Gotta be rock & roll music
If you wanna dance with me
If you wanna dance with me