Function At The Junction-Shorty Long

[ti:Function At The Junction] [ar:Shorty Long] [al:Tamla Motown: Big Hits & Hard To Find Classics, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.26]Function At The Junction - Shorty Long [00:01.83]Written by：Frederick Long/Eddie Holland [00:02.80] [00:07.68]I'm getting ready for the function at the junction [00:12.65] [00:13.18]Baby you'd better come on right now [00:17.23]Because everybody's gonna be there [00:20.73] [00:21.43]We got people comin' from everywhere [00:24.88] [00:26.08]We got Ling Ting Tong from China [00:29.35] [00:29.93]Long Tall Sally from Carolina [00:33.56] [00:34.40]We got 007 the private eye [00:38.67]He's bringin' all the guys from I Spy [00:43.19]Come one come all [00:44.79] [00:45.43]We gonna have a ball [00:46.97]Down at the function at the junction [00:50.91]And baby you'd better come on right now [00:54.50] [00:55.42]We serving egg foo yung and barbecue [00:59.65]Having chicken dumplings and kidney stew [01:03.80]Having heap big fun till the break of dawn [01:08.00]Gonna shake a tailfeather shoot [01:10.99]It's gonna be a run [01:12.24]Hold a shotgun on the rooster [01:14.59]And dare him to crow [01:16.31]How could anybody sleep when they could get out on the floor [01:20.74]Tell him tell them tell one and tell 'em all [01:24.73]Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction [01:28.59]Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now [01:32.18] [01:32.80]Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction [01:36.23]Baby [01:36.90]Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now [01:40.60] [01:41.66]Oh the soul brothers [01:51.89]Jitterbugs [01:52.86]Hip cats and fancy hats and [01:54.94]Pretty girls with pretty smiles [01:56.87]All decked out in the latest styles [01:59.02]Farmer jim and guitar slim and [02:01.25]Betty boop and ooo boop e doop [02:03.08]Mohair Sam from Alabam [02:05.07]And Minnesota fats from hobo flats [02:07.62]Breath takin' hip shakin' give it now [02:10.58]Talkin' 'bout some fascinatin' demonstratin' [02:13.94]Live now [02:14.96]They all be gathering here [02:17.67]From far and near [02:19.62]For the function at the Junction [02:22.82]And brother you'd better come on right now [02:27.57]Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction [02:31.85]Sister you'd better come on right now [02:35.98]Talkin' 'bout a function at the junction [02:39.77]Everybody you'd better come on right now [02:43.93]We gonna never seen a bird [02:46.01]Say could on all [02:48.15]We gonna never seen a bird [02:50.28]Should trouble on should trouble on