There's a bonfire up by the county road And where we'll end up no one knows And I heard there's a bash up by Sally's street Let's pick Betty up we can dance to the beat We go crazy in spring, we go wild in the fall Let's go shimmy and shake at the old Legion hall It's been a long hard day, time to live it up our own way Here's to a long hard night, dance til daylight It don't matter what the old folks say Ten of us boys pile into a car We head out in search of some girls and a bar There's an old town hall up on the main street There'll be doo wop girls with heels on their feet We can ask 'em to dance, we can feed 'em a line We can shimmy and shake til that jukebox dies It's been a long hard day, time to live it up our own way Here's to a long hard night, dance til daylight It don't matter what the old folks say We go all the way, we get crazy at the end of the day It's a long hard day, time to live it up our own way Here's to a long hard night, dance til daylight It don't matter what the old folks say