| Come on people, just in time.
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| Buy your tickets, an' get in line.
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| This gal ‘s goin' ta move that thing.
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| Oh, man how she can move that thing.
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| She ‘s got me goin' goofy, about to go insane.
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| Police ‘rest a gal for shakin' it at a dancin' hall,
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| She moved that thing for the judge and they had a ball.
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| You know she can move that thing.
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| Ah, man she can move that thing.
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| Even the judges go nuts, she can move that thing.
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| Boys, she can move it easy, she can move it neat.
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| She move it so she give me thrills down in my feet.
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| You know she can move that thing.
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| Ah, she can move that thing.
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| If she ever quits me I’ll make my home back in ol' St. James.
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| Now, I ‘s takin' this gal ta church, ta learn her how ta pray.
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| She starts ta movin' that thing the preacher throwed his bible away.
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| Says, «Gal, move that thing.
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| Yes, come on gal, let’s move that thing.
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| Says, «My back was hurtin', but you done made me lose my pain.»
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| Now, I ‘s takin' this gal, down in Jungleland.
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| She put that thing on that medicine man.
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| You know she can move that thing.
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| Ah, man she can move that thing.
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| Now she’s leading every tribe, down in Zululand.
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| Now she made me pawn the clothes and the shoes off my feet,
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| The hat off my head, an' the bed where I sleep.
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| You know she can move that thing.
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| Ah man, I’m nuts about her movin' that thing.
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| An' if my gal ever quits me I’ll kill her, and make my home in ol' St. James. |