Smack Dab in the Middle - Ry Cooder

Well, pick me a town in any clime

People like a rockin' time

Stay awake both day and night

And everybody’s feeling good and right

Then throw me

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul

I want ten Cadillacs and a diamond mill

Ten suits of clothes, I’m dressed to kill

Ten room house and-a some barbecue

And-a fifty chicks not over twenty-two

And they’ll all be

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul

Well, I want a lotta bread and-a gangs of meat

Oodles of butter and something sweet

Gallons of coffee to wash it down

And buy carbonated soda by the pound

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul

I want a big jazz band, a lot of dancing girls

Streets that’s paved with natural pearl

Bring me a wagon load of bonds and stocks

And then open up the door to Fort Knox

Then throw me

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Smack dab in the middle

Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul

Soul, (smack) soul, (dab) soul

(Smack dab) soul

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Thanks you folks.

I’m gonna introduce everybody for you

On alto sax, Frank Villarreal

On drums, Isaac Garcia

Bass, Big Red in your town tonight, Big Red

Bajo sexto, Jesse Ponce

Accordion, Flaco Jimenez

And helping me out on vocal, Eldridge King, Terry Evans, and Bobby King

Thank you again, and good night