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Top Hat Bar And Grill

This version of Top Hat Bar And Grill was released by Jim Croce in 1973.

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Well, if you’re lookin’ for a good time
Look hard as you want but you ain’t gonna find
The kind of good times you will
Come every Friday and Saturday evening at the Top Hat Bar and Grill

Well, at the Top Hat Bar and Grill
There is a waitress name of Lil
Well, she’s a honky tonky, little bit chunky, divorcee

She wears the tight hippy hugger slacks
You can believe me when I tell you jack
That she’s a dancin’, prancin’, hard romancin’,
P-I-E-C-E

And she can do the boogie woogie
She can do the boogaloo
And she can do the hoochie coochie
And she knows how to nasty too

So, if you’re lookin’ for a good time
Look hard as you want but you ain’t gonna find
The kind of good times you will
Come every Friday and Saturday evening at the Top Hat Bar and Grill

Well, at the Top Hat Bar and Grill
They’ve got this bouncer name of Gil

Well, he’s a honky tonky heavily funky ex-Marine

He wears the skin-tight body builder shirts
And jack he’ll knock you out into the dirt
But, if you got you no money or you try to get funny
Then, brother you gonna see

That man’s gonna do the boogie woogie
He gonna do the boogaloo
He gonna do the hoochie coochie
And he’ll be doin’ all his dancin’ on you

So, if you’re lookin’ for a good time
Look hard as you want but you ain’t gonna find
The kind of bad times you will
Come every Friday and Saturday evening at the Top Hat Bar and Grill

Lookin’ for a good time

Lookin’ for a bad time

So, if you’re lookin’ for a good time
The parties you want but you ain’t gonna find
The kind of good times you will
Come every Friday and Saturday evening at the Top Hat Bar and Grill

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