Music and French lyrics by
Paul de Maison Neuve
English version by Pamela Lintingre
Original title : Rock avec moi
LET’S ROCK TONIGHT
1 Ev’rything was alright / So she’d dance a rock with me tonight.
I’d learned each of the steps / So that I would be the very best.
I’d dressed up to the nines, / Looking awf’lly chic,
With a pretty shirt / Nicked from a friend of mine
And the smart trousers my very dear old mother had just pressed.
2 When I got to the ballroom I saw she was already there
With a few birds and surrounded by many an admirer.
Up to her I went looking quite nonchalant,
Ignoring the fellows who seemed insolent,
And like a really cool guy I asked her : « Let’s rock tonight ? »
Chorus Let’s rock tonight.
Let’s rock tonight.
Let’s rock tonight.
Let’s rock tonight.
Let’s rock tonight.
Baby, let’s rock tonight.
3 She didn’t answer me / And it’s then I felt their eyes on me.
’Cos there were quite a few / Who came up and stood around me too.
Firing questions at me / As if I was a creep,
Asking what I wanted, / What I really wanted.
I said please I only wanted to ask her : « Let’s rock tonight ? »
To the chorus.
Bridge You know I am only really a sort of quiet kind of guy,
But going too far they can make me really mad if they try.
Just couldn’t control myself, / Just let my fist shoot out,
Caught him right on his snout / The cheeky sneering lout.
Pity there were ten of them to start and knock me about.
Instrumental on bars of the verse.
4 One night I’ll come again, oh yes, with my pals from way down town.
My old friends will help me one by one to fight and knock them down.
While they’re chatting about this and that together,
I’ll meet the girl who sets my heart all a-quiver,
Smiling at her, I’ll take her hand saying « Baby, let’s rock tonight ».
To the chorus + instrumental on bars of the chorus and end.
Bars
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Tempo : |
4/4, 174 bpm, traditionnal rock. |