Chords for Joey Dee of Peppermint Twist

_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Cm] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ Well, if you got a loose dance and it go like this_ _
[F] The mob likes things to be low-key and quiet,
and things to run smoothly.
Just give us [Bb] the money, okay?
So, there'd be [G] occasions where guys would _ [Ab] not give a right count
or try to rip off or [G] break off some of the [Bb] monies
that they're supposed to be [F] turning over to the mob.
_ I actually saw a guy hung out of a 20-story building.
I was in the office at the time, and they were holding him by the ankles.
[Bb] And they said,
[G] Are you going to sign this contract, or I'm going to let go?
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Now, what would you do?
[C] You know you make me wanna_
Come on [Am] now_
Come [C] on now_
Come on [Am] now_
Come on [C] now_
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[C] Come on now_
[G] These people can open doors for you,
[F] or they can put you in a box.
It's as simple as that.
Back in [Bb] _
_ [Ab] the seminal days [D] of rock and roll, doo-wop music,
[Bb] _ _ [N] wherever there's money to be made, the mob's not far behind.
These guys that [G] _
eventually rule [Bb] the [Bb] recording business, the doo-wop business.
[A]
[Db] Manfattita, yeah, [E] _ yeah, _ [F] yeah
_ [G] What Morris Levy said was [F]
done.
Morris was [Gb] a tough guy, and he had a very raspy voice,
and he'd [N] growl more than talk.
And when he _ _
[C] _ was speaking to you, he got your [F] attention. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] While the Peppermint [Bb] Twist record was [Db] released,
I was told that in [G] New Jersey, [F] Morris had his own record plant,
and they were just printing records, and they were going out by the truckloads.
[N] That's why we never got any kind of fair count of what was actually sold.
But anybody who got in the way of this money-making machine was hurt.
Some even killed.
And I know of a couple of cases [E] of [G] guys that I had done some [N] business with
that were in the recording business, in the record business,
and I [Abm] would see them [F] one day, and I know they had [B] some words [F] of disagreement, _
and [G] a couple of days [Bb] later, they were dead.
When we did go [G] up into the office, I'd usually go up there by myself,
and I'd sit around, and I'd see [Bb] a bunch of characters around,
and [Gb] I knew they were mob guys, because I'm from [G] Jersey,
and _ [Gb] I've been around, and I came from the streets,
so I knew some of the guys, and _ they were always [C] nice to me.
But they were in there, and [F] they were there for business.
I knew when they were around, there was money around, [G] and they took care of business.
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[F] Here's a guy, me, number one record in the country, Peppermint Twist.
I get a royalty check, _ [N] and it stated that I owed Roulette Records $8,000, _
_ and I just couldn't get over it.
I thought I was going to become a millionaire after this happened.
Where's the royalty money?
He said, Jolly, you're going to get hurt.
Keep your mouth shut.
I'll give the mob credit [G] for one thing. _
They usually, 99% of the time, give you [Gm] a warning.
[F] Don't do that.
_ And that's all [F] they'll say to you.
Don't do that.
Now, if you don't get it the first time, [Eb] you're definitely going to get it the second.
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_ [Ab] _ What [Fm] kind of love is this [Db]
that [Eb] makes me want to jump and shout?
I want to [Ab] know, what kind of [Fm] love is this [Db] that turns my [Eb] heart inside [Ab] out?
Is that itchy twitchy feeling [Fm] that I have inside [Db] something overwhelming that I just can't hide?
I want [Ab] to know, oh [C] yeah, [G] oh yeah.
I'd get in a limo with George Goldner, who became an [C] employee of Morris' [Bb] after a while,
[Ebm] having been the [G] owner of a record company himself,
and he'd drive, it'd be a couple of ladies a evening or hookers, in the back of the limo,
and we'd drive to these [Bb] towns and [F] they'd meet the DJs, they'd give them an envelope [Gb] with [C] cash in [Bb] it,
_ _ [F] give them their way with the girls that were in the car,
and go on to the next town, [G] and the next town, and the next town.
The records were played.
And, God forbid, _ they took the money and didn't play the records.
That's when the baseball bats came out.
If [C] you're an earner, and that's what they call you, if you're an earner, they take [A] good care of you.
[G] But make sure the count is right.
[C] Because if you don't take care of the [F] count, then they [G] take care of you.
Okay?
Simple as that.
Just like it is in the sea, the little fish get eaten by the big fish.
So let that be a lesson.
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