Dance the Mess Around:Chubby Checker.
#24 in 1961.

INTRO:  
F5                          D5 
Bout this dance called the Mess Around..
Bb5                 C5 
Baby, dig what I'm puttin' down.
  
#1.  
        F5                                  F5 
You can Pony with Tony, Twist with Mr. Lee, 
    Bb5                           C5                                                   
but if you're gonna Mess Around, Mess Around with me.
  
#2.   
       F5                                      F5 
Do the Shimmy with Jimmy, Hucklebuck with Dee, 
    Bb5                                     C5                F5 
but if you're gonna Mess Around, oh, baby, Mess Around with me.
  
CHORUS: 
        Bb5                    
All the other dances you are free, 
        G5                               C5   
but you better save, the last dance for me.
  
#3. 
        F5                                             F5 
You can Cha Cha with Charlie, Stroll with Stagger Lee, 
    Bb5                           C5                F5 
but if you're gonna Mess Around, Mess Around with me.
  
#4. 
F5 
You can Pony with Tony..boogety, boogety, boogety shoot.

(INTERLUDE:SAX:)

#5.
C5           F5                                         F5
Hey, do the Twist with Mr. Lee..round and around and around.
Bb5                     
Round and around and around and around..
F5 
Round and around and around and around..hey!
    Bb5                 
but if you're gonna Mess Around, you better,    
C5                F5
Mess Around with me.

CHORUS: 
        Bb5                    
All the other dances you are free, 
        G5                               C5   
but you better save, the last dance for me.
  
#6.  
F5                                             F5
Hully Gully with Harry, Slop for Pop, or flee..
    Bb5                                    C5                F5 
but if you're gonna Mess Around, hear me? Mess Around with me.

OUTRO:
F5 
Do the Birdland with Birdie, do the Birdy with Ernie.. 
  Bb5               F5        
Watusi with Susie, Twist with my little Sis..(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.