The Lyrics (all copyright The Jalapenos)
Jump Start
If things are in a mess
And your bendin' under stress
You've forgotten how to live it up
Then I can only guess
You need a jump start, jump start,
Jump start, jump start,
A twenty thousand volt live wire
Connected straight into your heart.
You're workin' round the clock
When you really wanna rock
The only plan of action
Will come as quite a shock
You need a jump start, jump start
Jump start, jump start
A twenty thousand volt live wire
Connected straight into your heart.
Into your heart!
You're drownin' in the blues
Tryin' to kill yourself with booze
Well electrifyin' therapy
Is somethin' you can use
You need a jump start, jump start
Jump start, jump start
A twenty thousand volt live wire
Connected straight into your heart.
Wanna find a kinder scene
If you know the kind I mean
Where you shout an' holler - cause a riot
Dance and laugh and scream
You need a jump start, jump start
Jump start, jump start
A twenty thousand volt live wire
Connected straight into your heart.
Good Lookin' Trouble
The sunshine in her smile well that was just the start
With a lick and a promise she tore me apart
Talkin' so sweetly, but she treats me unkind
That little she-devil was playin' with my mind.
My friends all warned me saying you keep away
Get out while you can, better call it a day
She's a no-good momma, don't be fooled by her face
If she's got a heart then it's in the wrong place.
Good lookin' trouble you might see her around
In the streets and the bars - all across town
Good lookin' trouble drive a man to the ground
Nothin' but trouble - that's all I found.
It's honey to your face but she thinks you're a creep
I tell you all her good points only go skin deep
It's like you're asleep while she's wide awake
Sly as a fox and as mean as a snake.
Had me tricked so I didn't know where I was at
She should win an Oscar for an act like that
With my brain in chains and shackles on my soul
She took me to hell - and she charged me a toll.
Good lookin' trouble you might see her around
In the streets and the bars - all across town
Good lookin' trouble drive a man to the ground
Nothin' but trouble - that's all I found.
Three Days On The Beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
I'm gonna make it clear
There is no beer I fear.
Gonna party hearty and take no rest
Coz that twenty four hour drinkin' I like best
Gonna have fun whatever it takes
Ain't gonna stop till I get the shakes
When I'm in my sin I'll have a grin from ear to ear.
There's one dozen places that I could be
Those twelve bars always do it for me
Guys like me we don't get the blues
I can't lose with the booze I choose
When I'm in my sin
I'll have a grin from ear to ear - come on...
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
I'm gonna make it clear
There is no beer I fear.
I don't know where the money's gone to
I ought to stop - but I just dont
one, two
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
I'm gonna make it clear
There is no beer I fear.
Hey bartender, don't you call time
I'm only just gettin' started on your whiskey and wine
And after three days if I survive
I'll do it all again and make it five
When I'm in my sin
I'll have a grin from ear to ear.
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
Three days on the beer
I'll make it clear my dear
There is no beer I fear - last call!
Three days on the beer - three days!
Three days on the beer - who pays?
Three days on the beer - I said...
Three days on the beer
I'm gonna fill myself right up to here.
He stays three days on the beer!
Movin' and Shakin'
I'm moving and I'm shaking
And I'm taking my baby to town
We'll be jumping in the motor
And driving around and around
Until we're moving so fast
The wheels are lifting off the ground.
I'm moving and I'm shaking
Gonna paint this town a vivid red
I got the rock'n'roll a loud enough
To wake the loving living dead
And when they shout to turn it down
I'm gonna turn it up instead.
Can you see the way I'm moving?
Yes we can!
Can you see the way I'm grooving?
Yes we can!
Can you see the way I'm shaking?
Yes we can!
Oh - can you feel this room a quaking?
Yeah!
I'm moving and I'm shaking
And I'm jumping like a burning flea
I'm gonna move across the dance floor
Like a syncopated missionary
Because there's no-one in the ballroom
Can boogie-woogie quite like me.
And can you see the way I'm moving?
Yes we can!
Can you see the way I'm grooving?
Yes we can!
Can you see the way I'm shaking?
Yes we can!
Can you feel this room a quaking?
Yeah!
Bad Tattoo
I think my woman's a vampire
At least she's a pain in the neck
She's a bundle of nervous energy
When I'm just a nervous wreck
She doesn't like my family
You know she doesn't like my friends
She wants me on the straight and narrow
And it's driving me round the bend.
She said I know I could do better
Than the things you put me through
But I guess I'm stuck with you
Like a bad tattoo
I guess I'm stuck with you
Like a bad tattoo.
I thought she liked the way I dressed
You know I thought I looked real cool
But when I wear Hawaiian shirts
She says I look a fool
She likes to see me in the clothes
Like the guys wear on tv
But I don't think I could pull it off
You know it isn't really me.
She said I pray to heaven every night
But I don't know what to do
But I guess I'm stuck with you
Like a bad tattoo
I guess I'm stuck with you
Like a bad tattoo
I Wear Leather
I took a trip to the arctic circle
Just chillin' out in the ice and snow
Found some shelter in a frosty igloo
Where's your fur enquired an Eskimo
I said whatever the weather
I wear leather.
Plane crash landed in a real hot desert
Early afternoon, about quarter to one
The sun beat down on the slick black jacket
But I stayed cool by keeping it on
I said whatever the weather
I wear leather.
Think you look the dude in denim
Think you look slick in suede
When you wear black leather
That's when you've got it made.
Out in the jungle in the rainy season
The drops coming down like a waterfall
I tell you no lie - but I stayed dry
And I didn't seek any shelter at all
I said whatever the weather
I wear leather.
A gale was blowin' in the windy city
Like walkin' through the eye of a hurricane
People hunched over and hardly movin'
But I walked tall and I felt no shame
I said whatever the weather
I wear leather.
You ain't drastic in plastic
Cool in coduroy
But when you wear black leather
That's when you're the boy.
A Bit of Strange
I was thinking to myself
just the other day
What do people do
to keep the blues away
When the world's insane
and they need a little flame
To light their fuse
and make them burn again.
I was hanging round the town
just checking out the scene
Met a good friend of mine
So I asked him where he'd been
He said I've had a few drinks
And you know what I think?
I'm gonna check into a club
And gonna do my thing.
I'm gonna go looking, looking
Looking for a bit of strange.
I'm gonna go looking, looking
Looking for a bit of strange.
I was passing by the church
Just the other night
Saw the Vicar sneaking back
Through the dawning light
He said pray for me brother
Coz it's surely a sin
I can tell by your face
That you know where I've been.
Don't you think it's strange
No way to explain what people do.
Some people like a change
They like to see what's strange
In me and you.
They like to go looking, looking
Looking for a bit of strange
Looking, looking
Looking for a bit of strange.
I was sitting in the library
Hiding from the rain
Saw this cute little lady
Who was doing just the same.
She looked me up and down
Both one way than the other
As Bo says - you should never judge a book
By looking at the cover
When you're looking for a bit of strange
Looking for a bit of strange
Looking for a bit of strange
Looking for a bit of strange.
Oh - that's strange.
Wanderin' Eye
My girl's always checkin' out
Some other guy
Her head will turn whenever
She sees one pass by
And I can't stop it
No matter how I try
She's got a wanderin' eye.
I sometimes wonder
What she sees in me
Is she just looking for a way
To cut me free
I think she's fixin'
To leave me high and dry
She's got a wanderin' eye.
I feel that dread
When I see her head
Turn through ninety degrees
Her pretty face
Scannin' the place
She likes every man that she sees.
Every man she sees...
How, how, how, how
Can she do this to me?
I always catch her
Sizing up my friends
Like Martyn and Charlie
And Kelvin and Darren and Ben
When I first met her
She always seemed so shy - come on...
She's got a wanderin' eye.
My heart is pounding
And my head's in a whirl
Coz I just saw her
Staring at another girl
And I think she's hungry
For a slice of the pie
My oh my!
She's got a wandering eye.
Accused
You're the judge and you're the jury
So I guess I must be the accused
You say you've got all the facts you need
But me - I'm just confused
I can't see how I've done you wrong
Can't see how you've been used
You're the judge and the jury
I must be the accused.
You've got the noose and the guillotine
Guess I must be condemned
I'm just a dead man walking
And the road ain't got no end
But I can't see how I've done you wrong
Can't see how you've been used
You're the judge and the jury
I guess I must be the accused.
You're the judge and you're the jury
And you don't care how I plead
The verdict's never been in doubt
The punishment's what I need
But I can't see how I've done you wrong
Can't see how you've been used
You're the judge and the jury
I must be the accused.
Out To Hunch
Down in west Virginia
Where they hear the call of the wild
There's a man who's been plum crazy
Ever since he was a child
Ain't talkin' 'bout the dancin' outlaw
Or those redneck bluegrass boys
Coz way down in Boone County
Lives the king of the rockin' noise
Commodity meat for breakfast,
Honey's heads for lunch
Please proceed with caution
Coz the Haze is out to Hunch.
You'll know his trailer when you see it
Painted in a polka dot style
Hank Williams on the stereo
So please don't touch that dial
Coz there's chainsaws in the cupboard
Snakes are waiting just outside
So pull that hair down in your eyes
And come and take a ride.
Commodity meat for breakfast
Honey's heads for lunch
Please proceed with caution
Coz the haze is out to hunch.
Louder boy!
He told me about his woman
She had eyes like a dyin' hound
But since their date at half past eight
She ain't been seen around
She wouldn't do no chicken walk
Wouldn't turn his coat tails loose
Ate too many hot dogs
And wound up in a noose.
Commodity meat for breakfast
Honey's head for lunch
Please proceed with caution
Coz the Haze is out to hunch
The Haze is out to hunch
I said the Haze is out to hunch.
Watch it now!
Mean Motorcycle
I got a mean motorcycle
And she just don't treat me kind.
I got a mean motorcycle
And she just don't treat me kind.
I think I'm gonna have to dump her
Coz she lets me down all the time.
I can never get her going
She's always grinding to a halt.
I can never get her going
She's always grinding to a halt.
I'm always late for my appointments
And I swear that it's all her fault.
I got out of bed this morning
I looked outside my door
She was standing by the kerbside
With an oil patch on the floor.
I got a mean motorcycle
And she just don't treat me kind
When I go riding with my buddies
I'm always getting left behind.
She'll only cough and splutter
When she should purr like a pussycat.
She'll only cough and splutter
When she should purr like a pussycat.
She's only craving my attention
With her tyres and her battery flat.
If you ride a Harley Davidson
You're doing things mighty smart
But with a shaft drive S8 Sunbeam
You just can't get the parts.
I got a mean motorcycle
And she just don't treat me kind.
I'm gonna trade her for a scooter
Coz she's driving me out of my mind.
Mean motorcycle!
Keshi Head
Down to the castle where the madness lies
Over the wall you won't believe your eyes
Meet with the General and he'll show you around
Until it's time for the final showdown.
Listen to the General if you know what pays
You could get wiped out or lost in a maze
Take it to the bridge and you could lose your life
When you run the gauntlet you're heading for strife.
Sitting up for hours till my eyes turn red
Don't try to stop me
Cos baby I'm a keshi head.
Watch out for the animal, you know he's a beast
Seven tons of mayhem unleashed in the east
Skip across the stones or your bones will break
When you're diving for the stuff down at the dragon lake.
You might say that I've been easily led
Back off baby
You know that I'm a keshi head
Get tuned in if you know what's hip
You'll be spinning out on a mushroom trip
Out for the count and rolling high
Knock, knock, do the velcro fly.
Don't try to tell me that it's time for bed
Stop your squealing
You're dealing with a keshi head.
Touch that screen and I'll shoot you dead
I ain't fooling
I told you I'm a keshi head.
Guess you didn't listen to a word I said
Sayonara baby
From a keshi head.
Keeping Music Live (is killing me)
Playing rock and roll to this modern nation
It's not just a job, it's a real vocation
But don't be fooled by what you see
Keeping music live is killing me
Killing me.
Driving up the motorway and all I see is cones
They're digging up the road, I wish they'd just leave it alone
Cos how's a man supposed to get to where he's got to be?
Keeping music live is killing me
Killing me.
Death by rock and roll, that's our disease.
But what a way to go
When your temperature's up around a thousand degrees.
Had hardly any sleep and I'm feeling half dead
Trying to keep on rocking with a pounding head
And the amps are feeding back until it makes me want to scream
Keeping music live is killing me
Killing me.
You get your disco and karaoke
Drum machines and backing discs
They're all just trying to choke me
But I've got to hear it real,
Got to hear it with feel,
But goodness, gracious can't you see
The one thing that's keeping me alive is killing me!
My wife don't believe that we had to play late
She thinks I packed up early - took the barmaid on a date
Now I'm crawling up the stairs at a quarter past three
Keeping music live is killing me
Killing me.
Death by rock and roll that's our disease
But what a way to go
When you're temperature's up around a thousand degrees
Temperature's up around a thousand degrees
The one thing that's keeping me alive is killing me!
I Caught You Lookin'
I caught you lookin' now I know you wanna know
I caught you lookin' now I know you wanna know
The time has come to ditch that so-and-so.
If you and him ain't seein' eye to eye
If you and him ain't seein' eye to eye
Then dump that chump and give my love a try.
Cos I caught you lookin'
I caught you lookin'
I caught you lookin'
And I feel lucky
I caught you lookin' now I know you wanna know - alright.
Felt so good when I saw you take a glance
Felt so good when I saw you take a glance
I'm feelin' lucky so I'll take a chance.
I know what I like and I like what I see
I know what I like and I like what I see
An' I got this feelin' that you're likin' me.
Cos I caught you lookin'
I caught you lookin'
I caught you lookin'
And I feel lucky
I caught you lookin' now I know you wanna know.
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