The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there and they began to wail
The band was jumpin´ and the joint began to swing
You should´ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing
Let´s rock, everybody let´s rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin´ to the Jailhouse rock.
Spider Murphy played tenor saxophone
Little Joe was blowin´ on the slide trombone
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang
the whole rhytm section was the Purple Gang
Let´s rock, everybody let´s rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin´ to the Jailhouse rock.
Number forty-seven said to number three:
