Little Egypt

LITTLE EGYPT
By: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
The Coasters
Key: Eb

Spoken:
Step right up folks and see
Little Egypt do her famous dance
Of the pyramids.  
She walks, she talks!
She crawls on her belly like a reptile!
Just one thin dime one tenth of a dollar.
Step right up folks!

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I went and bought my-self a tic-ket and
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I sat down in the ver-y first row, wo wo.
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They pulled the cur-tain up and when
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they turned the spot-light 
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way down low, wo wo,
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lit-tle E-gypt came out strut-ting,
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wear-ing nutt-in’ but a but-ton 
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and a bow, wo wo,
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sing-ing, "Ying yang!  Ying yang!
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Ying yang!  Ying yang!

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She had a ru-by on her tum-my and
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a dia-mond big as Tex-as 
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on her toe, wo wo.
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She let her hair down and
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she did the hoot-chy koot-chy 
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real slow, wo wo,
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When she did her spec-ial num-ber 
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on a zeb-ra skin,
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I thought they'd stop the show, wo wo,
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sing-ing, "Ying yang!  Ying yang!
  3 3*-3-3*   3 3*-3-3*
Ying yang!  Ying yang!

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She did a tri-ple som-er-sault 
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and when she hit the ground,
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she winked at the au-di-ence 
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and then she turned a-round.
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She had a pic-ture of a cow-boy 
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Tat-tooed on her spine,
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Say-ing Phoe-nix, Ar-i-zo-na, 
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Nine-teen for-ty-nine.

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Yeah, but let me tell you peo-ple,
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Lit-tle E-gypt does-n't dance 
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there an-y-more, wo wo.
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She's too bus-y mop-ping and
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a tak-ing care of shop-ping 
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at the store, wo wo.
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'Cause we got sev-en kids and
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all day long they crawl 
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a-round the floor, wo wo,
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sing-ing, "Ying yang!  Ying yang!
  3 3*-3-3*   3 3*-3-3*
Ying yang!  Ying yang!