Written by: Ted Koehler
Written by: Rube Bloom
Arranged By: Neal Hefti
From the Album: Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: February 27, 1962
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Weeell,. they have to have
something new,
A dance to do for recreation so
someone started twistin',
A cat who was really hep, puts
down a step
To new gyration soon, all the
kids were twistin',
It didn't take long before the
grown-ups were trying it,
Who's who was buying it all over
town,
You see them, a-squirming and
a-worming and a-twistin' around,
It spread like a fire, its place
became a craze
That rocks the nation now,
everybody's twistin'.
(musical interlude)
Well oh well oh well oh well,
they had to have something new,
A dance to do for recreation so
someone started twistin',
And a cat who was really hep, he
puts down a step
To new gyration soon, all the
kids were twistin',
No, it didn't take long before
the grown-ups were trying it,
Who's who was buying it all over
town,
You see them, a-squirming and
a-worming and a-twisting around
It spread like a fire, its place
became a craze
That rocks the nation now,
everybody's twistin'.
Here's a-hopping, and a
stopping, and a poppin',
Sacro really, ax a bopping,
everybody's twistin'. Bop!