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SWINGIN' PARTY Lyrics

Artist: The Replacements
Album: Tim

Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
Here it's never endin', can't remember when it started
Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail

If bein' wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
If bein' strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
If bein' afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
At the swingin' party down the line

Pound the prairie pavement, losin' proposition
Quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishin'
Water all around, never learned how to swim now

If bein' wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
If bein' strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
If bein' afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
At the swingin' party down the line

Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
Here it's never endin', can't remember when it started
Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail

If bein' wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
If bein' strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather
If bein' afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
[mumble] at the swingin' party down the line
Catch you down at the swingin' party down the line

Comments/Interpretations

by Ira Marlowe on 11/5/2008 8:28pm
You should be sure to credit the composer and/or lyricist for each song.

by Nobody on 12/7/2010 12:26am
Written by Paul Westerberg

by junebug on 8/13/2011 7:39pm
"Quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishin'..."

Amazing line! But everything about this tune is perfect.

by Rainy & Andy on 7/30/2014 12:05pm
This is our song :) hope they play it when we see them live in Sept!

by Iska Waran on 9/18/2014 10:09pm
Water all around, never learn how to swim now. (Land of 10,000 Lakes). Paul Westerberg is God.

by melanie on 11/16/2014 6:29pm
I was much lighter than her. this guy basically sang about one of night's at the party. one of many when I was young. lorde is familiar with the lyrics. she sang his song on her cover album.