Function At The Junction - Taj Mahal

I’m getting ready for the function at the junction

Brother, you’d better come on right now

Because everybody’s gonna be there

Got people comin' from everywhere

We got Ling Ting Tong from China

Long Tall Sally from Carolina

We got 007, the private eye

And he’s bringin' all the guys from 'I Spy'

Tell one, tell all

We gonna have a ball

Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction

Sister, you’d better come on right now

Talkin' 'bout that function at the junction

Brother, you’d better come on right now

We servin' egg foo yung and barbecue

We got chicken dumplings and kidney stew

We gonna make big fun till the break of the dawn

I’ma shake your tail feather, shoot it run

Hold a shotgun on the rooster, dare him to crow

Tell anybody sleepin', say get out on that floor

Tell one, tell all

We gonna have a ball

Tell 'em bout the function at the junction

Sister, you’d better come on right now

Tell 'em 'bout that function at the junction

Brother, you’d better come on right now

We got soul brothers, jitterbugs, hip cats with crazy hats

Pretty girls with pretty smiles, all decked out in the latest styles

Memphis Slim and Guitar Jim, Betty Boop and oo boop e doop

Mohair Sam from Alabama, Minnesota Fats from Hobo Flats

Gravitatin' hip shakin' cuties now

Talkin' 'bout some fascinatin', devastatin' beauties now

They all be gatherin' here from far and near

For the function at the junction

Sister, you’d better come on right now

Tell 'em 'bout that function at the junction

Brother, you’d better come on right now

I’m gettin' ready for the function at the junction

Sister, you’d better come on right now

Tell 'em 'bout that function at the junction

Brother, you’d better come on right now

For the function at the junction