when ya' swish and sway
 in your yellow dress
 'cross a crowded room,
 boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom.
 Hey girl,
 freckles on your arm,
 freckles on your face,
 can't we find a place
 in a crowded room, we go
 boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom] (backup singers)
 boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]
 boom, boom, boom, chicka-boom.

 A-hey, girl,
 I'm goin' away,
 but I'm comin' back
 with a ginger cat.
 What ya' think a' that?

 Hey girl,
 I' goin' away,
 but I'm comin back
 by the railroad track,
 where the trains go by,
 and we sit and we cry in the gloom,
 boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom]
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]

 Hey girl,
 [chicka-chicka-chicka-boom]
 when ya' swish and sway
 in your yellow dress
 'cross a crowded room,
 boom,
 boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom]
 boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]
 chicka, chicka-boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-chicka-chicka-boom]
 chicka-chicka-boom-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom]
 chick, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]
 boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-chicka-chicka-boom]
 chicka-chicka-chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom]
 chick, chick, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]
 chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick,
 chick-chick-chick-chick, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
 [chicka-chicka-chicka-boom]
 chick-chick, chicka, chick, chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom,
 [chicka-chicka-chicka-boom]
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom]
 [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom