Transcribed from vocals by Dave Wilborn with McKinney's
Cotton Pickers, recorded Feb. 3, 1930;
From McKinney's
Cotton Pickers, 1929-1930, The Chronological Classics, 625.
[Scats]
Time to start dancing zonky,
Start cutting loose, get honky-tonky,
It's a good excuse, let your feelings
run wild!
Shake your feet a-plenty, don't
be haughty,
Work a double twenty, that means
forty,
Make a noisy entry, act just like
a big child!
I got such, well, you know,
What I want to say,
Hot much, that tempo
Sure is hot that way!
I'd bet a dime, guess a donut,
Other dances they may come and
go, but,
When you learn the zonky,
You will want it to stay!
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