The Peppermint Twist:Chubby Checker.
Joey Dee & the Starlighters
#8 in 1962.

INTRO: Ab F# C#

#1.
C#
Well, they've got a new dance and it goes like this..

(Bop shoo..bop, a bop..mm bop..mm shoo..bop)
          F#          
yeah, the name of the dance is the Peppermint Twist,
 C#
(Bop, bop shoo..bop, a bop..mm bop..mm shoo..bop)
          Ab                                C#   
well, you like it like this, the Peppermint Twist.

(Bop bop shoo..bop, a boppa boppa shoo..bop)

CHORUS: 
C#
You go round and round, up and down,
F#               C#
round and round, up and down,
Ab                     F#
round and around and...up and down,
    C#
and one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, jump.

(INTERLUDE:(ORGAN/GUITAR:) C# F# Ab

#2.
      C#
Well, meet me, baby, down on 45th Street,

(Bop bop shoo..bop, a boppa boppa shoo..bop)
F#
where the Peppermint Twisters meet,
 C#
(Bop bop shoo..bop, a boppa boppa shoo..bop)
           Ab                               C#        
and you'll learn to do this, the Peppermint Twist.

(Bop shoo..bop, boppa boppa shoo..bop)

#3. 
C#
It's alright, all night, it's alright,

(it's alright, it's alright, it's alright),
     F#                  C#
it's okay, all day, it's okay

(it's okay, it's okay, it's okay)
       Ab                               C#
you'll learn to do this, the Peppermint Twist.

OUTRO:
C#
Hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..
                                   F#                  C#
hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..
               Ab                  C#
Hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..
C#
Hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..hey, yay, yay, yay..

hey, yay, yay, yay..
               F#                   C#
Yay, yay, yay, yeah..yay, yay, yay, yeah..
C#            Ab    C#
yay, yay, ya, yeah..(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.