IT COMES FROM MI SSI SSI PPI

AND DOWN IN AL A BAM'

CREE PIN' LIKE A FE VER

ALL A CROSS THE LAND

FROM DEEP IN THE DEL TA

ON THE LOUI SI A NA SHORE

THE PEO PLE GOT TO HAVE IT

THEY WA NNA HEAR SOME MORE

IT'S THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

BEAT IT WITH A DRUM

PLAY IN' THEM GUI TARS

LIKE SHOO TIN' FROM A GUN

KEE PIN' UP THE RHY THM

STEA DY AS A CLOCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

SOME SAY IT

CAME FROM MEM PHIS

JUST AS LONG AS IT'S GREA SY

AS LONG AS IT'S FAST

AS LONG AS IT'S PUM PIN'

HO NEY IT'S GO NNA LAST

IT'S THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

BEAT IT WITH A DRUM

PLAY IN' THEM GUI TARS

LIKE SHOO TIN' FROM A GUN

KEE PIN' UP THE RHY THM

STEA DY AS A CLOCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

WAY BACK IN OLD KEN TU CKY

WHERE THE BLUE GRASS GROWS

THROUGH THE CA RO LI NAS

ON THEM DIRT RED ROADS

BUR NIN LIKE A FI RE

RU NNIN' WILD IN THE WOODS

FROM AR KAN SAS TO TE XAS

IT SOUNDS SO GOOD

IT'S THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

BEAT IT WITH A DRUM

PLAY IN' THEM GUI TARS

LIKE SHOO TIN' FROM A GUN

KEE PIN' UP THE RHY THM

STEA DY AS A CLOCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

SO WHEN THE HEAT

STARTS TO RI SIN'

THE JUKE JOINT'S JUM PIN'

WHEN THAT CAT GOES ON

THE WHOLE PLACE IS SHA KIN'

THERE'S A SOME THING GO IN' ON

IT'S THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

BEAT IT WITH A DRUM

PLAY IN' THEM GUI TARS

LIKE SHOO TIN' FROM A GUN

KEE PIN' UP THE RHY THM

STEA DY AS A CLOCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK

DO IN' A LI TTLE THING

CALLED THE HILL BI LLY ROCK