Album: Exile on Main St. (1972)

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• I want to tell you 'bout a dance
  That's going around
  Everybody's doing it
  From the grownups down
  Don't move your head
  Don't move your hands
  Don't move your lips
  
  Just shake your hips
  Do the hip shake, babe
  Do the hip shake, babe
  Shake your hip, babe
  Shake your hip, babe
  
  What you don't know
  Don't be afraid
  Just listen to me
  And do what I say
  Don't move your head
  Don't move your hands
  Don't move your lips
  
  Just shake your hips
  Do the hip shake, babe
  Do the hip shake, babe
  Shake your hip, babe
  Shake your hip, babe
  
  Well, I met a little girl
  In a country town
  She said, What do you know
  There's Slim Harpo!
  Didn't move her head
  Didn't move her hands
  Didn't move her lips
  
  Just shook her hip
  Did a hip shake, babe
  Do a hip shake, babe
  Shake your hip, babe
  Shake your hip, babe Writer/s: James Moore
  Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Jay Grant from Key WestCheck out Harpos "Tip On In" parts one and the down tempo part two. I believe someone coined the genre Popcorn Music. Whatever. It's sheer genius.
• The Dude from Chi-town, IlHere's how mick described it in 1995:
  
  "Stoned is the word that might describe (the band at the time). (Laughs) It's the first album Mick Taylor's on, really (sic). So it's different than previous albums, which had Brian on them - or Brian not on them, as the case may be. It was a difficult period, because we had all these lawsuits going with Allen Klein. We had to leave England because of tax problems. We had no money and went to live in the South of France - the first album we made where we weren't based in England, thus the title."
• Steve from Ottawa, CanadaWhere "I'm A King Bee" was a fairly true cover of Slim Harpo, "Hip Shake" from "Exile on Main Street" is almost a completely different song - but it rocks nonetheless.
• Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScThat's because LaGrange also barrowed from the original "Shake Your Hips" by Slim Harpo. You can hear it in the intros of both songs.
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaThis sounds like ZZ top's La Grange I believe it's called

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