Word: ya
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...Lewis who embodied - hell, embodies - so much of what was feral and profound about the new music. He knew its varied roots and how to tap them. As he announced at the conclusion of his belated, heroically defiant debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1973: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen. I am a rock-'n'-rollin', country-and-Western, rhythm-'n'-blues-singin' mothafucker...
...spoken verses - one with the ad-lib "You can shake it one time for me" and a brief impression of the Elvis baritone ("Did you hear me, I said come on over, baby" but, in the Presley style, omitting all consonants), the second a little sermon on shakin' ("All ya gotta do, honey, is kinda stand in one spot,/ Wiggle around just a little bit,/ And that's when ya got something, yeah") - and finally, after the caressing, the orgasm, the imperious "Shake it, make it shake!" as the piano pumps like a marathoner's heart, the stool goes rush...
...left hand rumbles menacingly up to the break, when four-note poundings heighten the melodrama of the lyric: "You're fine, so kind/ Got to tell this world that you're mine mine mine mine!" Back to the verse, with more rumblings and eruptions - "C'mon, baby, ya drive me crazy" - and on to the two instrumental sections...
...right hand pounds the same four high keys while the left hand describes a familiarly stealthy boogie-woogie figure, creeping up and down the lower register. We're back into the bridge, Jerry Lee's enunciation more forceful, and rampaging through the final verse. At "C'mon, baby, ya drive me crazy," the chugging bass figure is briefly counterpointed by a cute hearts-and-flowers, silent-movie piano flourish, as if sentiment not sex were the theme of the story - he's lying with his right hand, telling the truth with his left. A last "Goodness gracious! Great balls...
...name is Jerry Lee Lewis from a-Louisiana I'm gonna do ya'a little boogie on this here piana Do it mighty fine, gonna make you shake it I'll make ya do it and make ya do it until till ya break It's called the Lewis boogie in the Lewis way Oh Lord I do my little boogie-woogie every day. -recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, early...