I'm getting ready for the function at the junction

And baby you'd better come on right now

Because everybody's gonna be there

We 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" Come one, come all, we gonna have a ball

down at the function at the junction

And baby you'd better come on right now We serving egg foo yung and barbecue

having chicken dumplings and kidney stew

having heap big fun till the break of dawn

gonna shake a tailfeather shoot, it's gonna be a run Hold a shotgun on the rooster, and dare him to crow

how could anybody sleep when they could get out on the floor Tell him, tell them, tell one and tell `em all.

Tell `em `bout the function at the junction

Tell `em that they'd better come on right now

Tell `em `bout the function at the junction

Tell `em that they'd better come on right now Oh the soul brothers, Jitterbugs

Hip cats and fancy hats and

Pretty girls with pretty smiles

All decked out in the latest styles

and Farmer Jim and Guitar Slim and

Betty Boop and ooo-boop-e-doop

and Mohair Sam from Alabam

and Minnesota Fats from Hobo Flats

Breath-takin' Hip-shakin' give it now

Talkin' bout some fascinatin' demonstratin' They all be gathering here, from far and near

for the Function at the Junction

Brother, you'd better come on right now

Tell `em `bout the function at the junction

Sister, you'd better come on right now

Talkin' `bout a function at the junction

Everybody you'd better come on right now