Sweet, Peppermint Twist (1974)
Key: :[F] (w: Joey Dee, Henry Glover) (Joey Dee & the Starlighters, 1961)
INTRO:
[F] [F] [C open] [A# open]
[F] [F] [C open] [A# open] //
[F] [F]
VERSE 1:
Well, we're
[F] gonna do a dance and it goes like this
[F] (Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
Yeah, the
[A#] name of the dance is Peppermint Twist
[F] (Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
PRE-CHORUS 1:
Well, you
[C] like it like
[A#] this
The Peppermint
[F] Twist
CHORUS 1:
[F] Round and round,
[F] up and down
[A#] Round and round,
[F] up and down
[C] Round and round and,
[A#] up and down
And a
[F open] one two three kick, one two three jump
BREAK: [/F] [/A] [/C] [/F]
INSTRUMENTAL: [A#] [F] ^
[C]^
[A#] [F]
VERSE 2:
Well,
[F] meet me baby on the 45th street
[F] (Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
[A#] That's where the Peppermint Twisters meet
[F] (Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
PRE-CHORUS 2:
And you'll
[C] learn to do
[A#] this
The Peppermint
[F] Twist
(Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
CHORUS 2:
It's al-
[F]-right, all night, it's al-
[A#]-right
It's o-
[A#]-kay, all day, it's o-
[F]-kay
And you'll
[C] learn to do
[A#] this
The Peppermint
[F] Twist
(Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
BRIDGE 1:
Yeah-yeah-yeah-
[F]-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-
[F]-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-
[A#]-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-
[F]-yeah
You wanna
[C] learn to do
[A#] this
The Peppermint
[F] Twist
(Bop bop shoo-bop, a boppa boppa shoo-bop)
BRIDGE 2: [D#RUMS, N.C.]
Come on everybody, clap your hands
Aaahh your looking good
I'm gonna sing my song and it won't take long
We're gonna do the twist and it looks like this
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
BREAK: [/F] [/A] [/C] [/F]
INSTRUMENTAL:
[A#] Whooo bop bop;
[F] Whooo bop bop
^
[C] Oooh ^
[A#] oooh
[F] oooh
REPEAT BRIDGE: [x3]