He's a groovy swinging guy With the rock and roll banjo band I got a sweet little guy Who lives down the street But nobody knows his name Everybody was sad and feeling so bad But that was before he came Now everybody in the neighborhood Seems to walk with a steady beat By the rhythm of the guy With the rock and roll banjo band The way he plays that thing It makes my poor heart ring I'm gonna marry that guy someday If you wanna know why I love him so Then you ought to come and hear him play From the dawn to the sunset He keeps a-strumming on his banjo strings He's the groovy swinging guy With the rock and roll banjo band Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah The way he plays that thing It makes my poor heart ring I'm gonna marry that guy someday If you wanna know why I love him so Then you ought to come and hear him play From the dawn to the sunset He keeps a-strumming on his banjo strings He's the groovy swinging guy With the rock and roll banjo band Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah He's the groovy swinging guy With the rock and roll banjo band He's the groovy swinging guy