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Written yesterday, recorded in a single take. Happy Halloween, Jerry Lee.

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SHOOK UP
By Johnny Dowd

This is a gathering of family and friends
To say goodbye and make amends
It's not the time to fuss or fight
Let it all, go it’ll be all right

I'm all shook up, I'm all shook up
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire

Is it Christmas or Halloween
Holidays that’s not really my scene
I'd rather be alone inside four walls
With front door locked and the light on at the end of the hall

Some say the world is coming to an end
They tell you why but they don't know when
The past has always eaten the future
That why you got to religiously practice the Kama Sutra

I'm all shook up, I'm all shook up
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire

You contemplate your own demise
While you’re eating breakfast I hope includes some home fries
Home fries
There’s just one song on my music box
Rock of Ages cleft to me, let me hide myself in thee
Let me hide myself in thee

I'm all shook up, I'm all shook up
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire

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from TUNES for SPECIAL OCCASIONS​-​album, track released October 29, 2022
guitar and lyrics: Johnny Dowd
Drums: Jif Dowd

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Over the last thirty years, Johnny Dowd has been a musical explorer who has charted expeditions to genre-defying destinations that, at their heart, question, challenge, and dissect in their own way notions of the American Dream. Hope you like it.

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