The E Street Shuffle/Having a Party

Lyrics

[Intro] How's things goin' over here in England and stuff, all right? This is the first time I've ever been here before... On the eighth day, looked down on a bunch of drunks in this bar, and, uh, see... looked down on a bunch of drunks in this bar on the eighth day, and he said..." [Verse 1] Sparks fly on E Street When the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot And the little girls' souls grow weak When the man-child gives them a double shot [Verse 2] Now the schoolboy pops pull out all the stops On a Friday night Now the teenage tramps in skin-tight pants Do the E Street dance and it's alright, yes, it's alright [Chorus 1] Well, the little kids down there either dancin' Or hooked up in a scuffle Dressed in snake-skin suits packed with east coast muscle They're doin' the E Street Shuffle [Verse 3] Now those E Street brats in twilight duel Flashlight phantoms in full star stream, runnin' down the road Down fire trails on summer nights, chasin' little blonde girls Pledged forever sweet sixteen [Verse 4] Power 13 said it's been bad Since he gave a trooper everything he had in a summer scuffle And Power's girl, Little Angel, she's still out there on the corner Tryin' to keep them crazy boys out of trouble [Verse 5] Little Angel dances the shuffle Like she ain't got no brains She's deaf in combat, she's a killer, she's a murderess She's the queen way down on lovers' lane [Bridge] Hey, everybody (hey, everybody) Everybody form a line Hey, baby (hey, baby) Everybody form a line one time [Verse 1] Sparks fly on E Street When the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hot All the little ones' souls grow weak When the man-child hits them with the double shot [Verse 6] Little Angel works down at Easy Joe's It's a joint where all the riot squad goes When they're jackin' in on all the hustlers But them kids are still on the corner Got the same faces in the same old places [Verse 7] As them summer nights turn into summer dreams Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans He puts on his shirt, steps outside, looks up and down the street Because pretty soon, it's all gonna be gone And he moves on down to the street, he's gone All by himself, all by himself All by himself [Outro] We're havin' a party, sha-la-la-la-la Havin' a party, sha-la-la-la Walkin' past the drugstore Tryin' on the sunglasses at the drugstore Lookin' in the mirror We're havin' a party Havin' a party Sittin' on a bench downtown Sittin' on a bench downtown All night long, sittin' on a bench Saxophone Sittin' on a bench Havin' a party