Next time you need a holiday
I'll tell ya what me and a coupla friends did
We got into a van and drove to the Carolina coast
Laid on the beach and hid
Well, the other guys didn't notice it
I tell you what, I sure did
Well, she asked me to come up and talk to her
And o'er next to her I slid
She said
Do you wanna go down to South America
And go crazy down there
She said "Can I show you this little beach town?"
I said "Baby, I don't care"
And she said
Do you do the Carolina shag, dance, dance, dance?
Do you do the Carolina shag, dance, dance, dance?
Down those Carolina beach towns
They got a pretty, pretty girls
They got a hundred beach clubs on every street corner
Probably the best in the world
And that old screaming rock and roll
Cost Idaho Johnny dollars
She was the first to arrive, the last to leave
And man, I could hear her holler
She said "Are you gonna be down there tonight?"
I said "Baby, you know that I will"
She said "You can come by yourself or you can bring your friends
'Cause everybody's there"
And they're doing the Carolina shag, dance, dance, dance, yeah, yeah
Doing the Carolina Shag, dance, dance, dance, yeah, yeah, yeah
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It's a crazy old world we live in
And sometimes you need to relax
And when the nine to five is a monkey on your back
And the boss man's wielding his big axe
Do you go lugging down there
They give your money back
And I bet you one thing that I want you to leave
Is a damn way to get back
'Cause they're doing the Carolina Shag, dance, dance, dance
Doing the Carolina Shag, dance, dance, dance, yeah, yeah
Doing the Carolina Shag, dance, dance, dance, yeah, yeah
Doing the Carolina Shag, dance, dance, dance, yeah, yeah, yeah
O they dance, see 'em dance, yeah