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Rockaria!

This version of Rockaria! was released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1976.

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Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweet
It knocked me right back in the alley
I’m ready, yea, yea, yea, I’m ready,
Wo, wo, wo, I’m ready
And I’m really gonna rock tonight.

Sweet little lady sings like a songbird
And she sings the opera like you ain’t never heard,
But she ain’t ready,
No, no, no, she ain’t ready
No, no, no, she ain’t ready,
And she ain’t gonna rock & roll

She’s sweet on Wagner,
I think she’d die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
And Verdi’s always creeping from her room

Come on I’ll show you how to sing the blues
Now baby, come on over you got nothin’ to lose,
Are you ready, hey, hey, hey are you ready
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready
I wanna show you how to rock and roll.

Now listen here baby she, said to me
Just, meet me at the opera house at a quarter to three,
‘Cos I’m ready, yea, yea, yea, I’m ready,
Woo, hoo, hoo, I’m ready,
I’m gonna show you how to sing the blues.

Far, far away the music is playing.

Well we were reelin’ and a rockin’ all through the night,
Yea we were rockin’ at the opera house until the break of light,
And the orchestra were playin’ all Chuck Berry’s greatest tunes.
And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues,
And as the night grew older everybody was as one,
The people on the streets came runnin’ in to join in song
Just to hear the opera singer singin’ rock & roll so pure,
I thought I saw the mayor there but I wasn’t really sure,
But it’s alright.

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The lyrics to Rockaria! are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Rockaria! are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Rockaria! back when it was created.

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