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I Don’t Want To Forget How To Jive

This version of I Don’T Want To Forget How To Jive was released by Thin Lizzy in 1972.

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I don’t wanna forget how to jive
Get my mookie, keep ’em alive, baby
Don’t wanna lose ya
Goodbye, a-huh, huh, yeah

I don’t wanna forget how to rock
Lose, wearin’ toll
Well, it show ya, oh yeah, oh well, well

I don’t wanna forget how to jive
I just wanna keep ’em alive
I don’t wanna forget how to die
I just cold shower

Don’t wanna forget how to jive
Went bobbin’ with a bip-bop
bop bop bop bop bop
billy bop, a-billy a-bop, a-billy a-bop bop bop bop bill bop
Uh-huh, oh yeah

I don’t wanna lose ya
I don’t want you
Shush my dragon
You got new chil’
Ow!

I don’t wanna fotget how to jive
I just wanna feel alive
I don’t wanna forget how to rock
No child
Don’t wanna forget how to jive
Went boppin’…

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Thin Lizzy has released many songs over the years besides I Don’T Want To Forget How To Jive. Thin Lizzy released songs from 1971 to 1983 spanning across albums like Thin Lizzy, New Day, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds Of The Western World, Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Chinatown, Renegade, and Thunder And Lightning. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Thin Lizzy.

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