Electric Light Orchestra - Rockaria

Lyrics

Just got back from the downtown palais

Where the music was so sweet

Knocked me right back in the alley

I'm ready, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready

Oh, oh, oh, I'm ready and I'm really gonna rock tonight

Sweet little lady sings like a songbird

And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard

But she ain't ready

No, no, no, she ain't ready

No, no, no, she ain't ready

And she ain't gonna rock and roll

She's sweet on Wagner

I think she'd die for Beethoven

She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune

And Verdi's always creeping from her room

Come on, I'll show you how to sing the blues

Now baby, come on over you got nothin' to lose

Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you ready?

Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready?

I wanna show you how to rock and roll

Now listen here baby she said to me

"Just meet me at the opera house at a quarter to three

'Cause I'm ready, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready

Ooh, ooh, ooh, I'm ready

I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues"

She's sweet on Wagner

I think she'd die for Beethoven

She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune

And Verdi's always creeping from her room

Far, far away the music is playing

Well, we were reelin' and a rockin' all through the night

Yeah, we were rockin' at the opera house until the break of light

And the orchestra were playin' all Chuck Berry's greatest tunes

And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues

And as the night grew older everybody was as one

The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song

Just to hear the opera singer singin' rock and roll so pure

I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn't really sure, but it's alright