| Just got back from the downtown palais | 
| Where the music was so sweet | 
| It knocked me right back in the alley | 
| I’m ready, yea, yea, yea, I’m ready | 
| Wo, wo, wo, I’m ready | 
| And I’m really gonna rock tonight | 
| Sweet little lady sings like a songbird | 
| And she sings the opera like you ain’t never heard | 
| But she ain’t ready | 
| No, no, no, she ain’t ready | 
| No, no, no, she ain’t ready | 
| And she ain’t gonna rock & roll | 
| She’s sweet on Wagner | 
| I think she’d die for Beethoven | 
| She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune | 
| And Verdi’s always creeping from her room | 
| Come on I’ll show you how to sing the blues | 
| Now baby, come on over you got nothin' to lose | 
| Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you ready | 
| Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready | 
| I wanna show you how to rock and roll | 
| Now listen here baby she, said to me | 
| Just, meet me at the opera house at a quarter to three | 
| 'Cause I’m ready, yea, yea, yea, I’m ready | 
| Woo, hoo, hoo, I’m ready | 
| I’m gonna show you how to sing the blues | 
| She’s sweet on Wagner | 
| I think she’d die for Beethoven | 
| She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune | 
| And Verdi’s always creeping from her room | 
| Far, far away the music is playing | 
| Well we were reelin' and a rockin' all through the night | 
| Yea we were rockin' at the opera house until the break of light | 
| And the orchestra were playin' all Chuck Berry’s greatest tunes | 
| And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues | 
| And as the night grew older everybody was as one | 
| The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song | 
| Just to hear the opera singer singin' rock & roll so pure | 
| I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn’t really sure | 
| But it’s alright |