Function At The Junction:Shorty Long.
#42 on R&B Charts on SOUL Records
in 1966.
INTRO: G C G C G C
#1.
G C
I'm getting ready for the function at the
G C G C
junction and baby you'd better come on
G
right now.
C G C
Because everybody's gonna be there, we got
G
people comin' from everywhere.
C G
We got Ling Ting Tong from China, Long Tall
C G
Sally from Carolina.
C G
We got 007, the private eye, and he's bringin'
C G
all the guys from "I Spy."
CHORUS:
D C G
Come one, come all, we gonna have a ball down
C G
at the function at the junction.
C G C G
And baby you'd better come on right now.
#2.
C G C G
We serving egg foo yung and barbecue, having
C G
chicken dumplings and kidney stew.
G
Having heap big fun till the break of dawn.
C G C G
Gonna shake a tailfeather, 'shoot 'im 'fore he run.'
G C G
Hold a shotgun on the rooster and dare him to crow.
C
How could anybody sleep when they could get out
G
on the floor?
CHORUS:
D C G
Tell him, tell them, tell one and tell 'em all.
G C G
Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction.
C G C G
Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now.
G C G
Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction.
C G C G
Tell 'em that they'd better come on right now.
INTERLUDE: G C G C G
#3.
G
Oh, the soul brothers, Jitterbugs, hip cats and
C
fancy hats and pretty girls with pretty smiles,
G
all decked out in the latest styles.
And Farmer Jim and Guitar Slim and Betty Boop and
C G
ooo-boop-e-doop and Mohair Sam from Alabam
C G
and Minnesota Fats from Hobo Flats.
G
Breath-takin' Hip-shakin' give it now, talkin' bout
some fascinatin' demonstratin here tonight.
#4.
C D C G
They all be gathering here, from far and near for
C G
the Function at the Junction.
C G C G
Brother, you'd better come on right now.
C G C G
Tell 'em 'bout the function at the junction.
C G C G
Sister, you'd better come on right now.
C G C G
Talkin' 'bout a function at the junction.
C G C G
Everybody, you'd better come on right now..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
