INTRO:
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Get up a-from your chair..(x4)

(SPOKEN AD LIB:) (By Bonds with INTRO in background.)
Darling, may I have the pleasure of having this next 
Twist with you?
(FEMALE D PLY:) But I don't know how to Twist.
(BONDS:)You don't know how to Twist? Well, let me tell you!

#1.
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Well, now, there's a new dance that's known as the Twist..
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it's really not new, it's somethin' you`ve missed.
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But there's a new dance, that's known as the Twist.
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It's really not new, it's somethin' you've missed.

Dear lady!!..

CHORUS:
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(Get up a-from your chair.) Dear, dear lady..
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
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do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.

#2.
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Well, one night I happened to go to a dance..believin' 
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I'd find me some romance.
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And this old lady I happened to see..I said, come on, baby, 
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do the Twist with me.

Dear lady!!..

CHORUS:
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(Get up a-from your chair.) Awww, dear lady..
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
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do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.


(INTERLUDE:SAX:) D G A D (x2)

(BACKGROUND:) (Get up from your chair.)

(BONDS: (Baby, yeah..C'mon, pretty baby..Get up an' do 
 the Twist now..yes, oh, yes!)

#3.
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Well, I said, I'd love to dance from now until dawn.
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She said, crazy, baby, but I'm almost gone.
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I said, now the rhythm is getting real sweet..
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but this is no time to slow up your feet.

Dear lady!!..

CHORUS:
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(Get up a-from your chair.) dear, dear lady..
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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Well, now, 'cause doctors agree, so I've been told..
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do the Twist an' you'll never grow old.

OUTRO:           
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You gotta do the Twist!..yeah, petty baby!
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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You gotta do the Twist!..Get up, c'mon, an' get up!
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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Get up an' do the Twist!..Do the Twist now, baby!
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(Get up a-from your chair.)
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