Name: Function at the Junction
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: Recorded live sometime between 1980 and 1984 in a roadhouse somewhere in the Northwest. A fellow named Bill Lewis made the recording. The equipment and technique used for the recording is unknown.

Function at the Junction

by The Burners of Eugene

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Recorded live sometime between 1980 and 1984 in a roadhouse somewhere in the Northwest. A fellow named Bill Lewis made the recording. The equipment and technique used for the recording is unknown.

lyrics

Function at the junction
People gettin ready for the
Function at the junction
You'd better come on right now
Because everybody's gonna be there
We got people comin' from everywhere

We got Ling Ching Chong from China
Long Tall Sally from Carolina
We got 007, the private eye,
And he's bringin' all the guys from "I Spy"

Come one, come all, we gonna have a ball
down at the function at the junction
And baby you'd better come on right now

We having egg foo yung and barbecue
chicken dumplings and kidney stew
having heap big fun till the break of dawn
gonna shake a tailfeather, shoot him 'fore he run

Hold a shotgun on the rooster, and bagging crow
Hot foot anybody sleepin'. Tell them to get on the floor and go

Tell her, tell them, to bring it on in.
To the function at the junction
They'd better come on right now
Function at the junction
Oh baby, you better come on right now

Oh the soul brothers, Jitterbuggers
Hip cats with the fancy hats and
Pretty girls with pretty smiles
All decked out in the latest styles
and Farmer Jim and Guitar Slim and
Betty Boop and Ooo-Poop-a-Doop
and Mohair Sam from Alabam
and Minnesota Fats from the Coldwater Flats
We got some Earth-shakin', breath-takin' music now
Fascinatin' devastatin' music yeah

From far and near they're travellin' here
for the Function at the Junction
You'd better come on right now
Talkin' `bout the function at the junction
People, you'd better come on right now
Junction at the Junction
Sister, you'd better come on right now
Function at the Junction

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released December 5, 2014
Song written by Shorty Long

Performed by the Burners

Vocals - Abner Burnett and Paul Burnett; Guitars - Newel Briggs and Paul Burnett; Slide Guitar - Abner Burnett; Trumpet - Paul Schimming; Tenor Sax - Tom Smith; Alto Sax - Jeff Homan; Drums - Butch Cousins; Bass Guitar - Dean Engleson; Sound and Lights - Lewis Padgett

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