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Intro

Now Hobnail Kelly and the Beefcake kid

 Just rolled into town from the land of sown-up faces

Looking for a woman who can punch and kick and bite

Slide on down to the Egypt room

 Find the only woman who’s holding all the aces

 The Princess is dancing at the Egypt Room tonight

 Don’t be late, don’t be late, Don’t be late

She’s a nightclub floozy, nothing but a tramp

But she moves like a snake and she shimmies like a fish in the ocean

She can fool with a man ‘till he doesn’t know wrong from right

She’s got diamonds flashing, ruby rings

She sparkles like the Nile when she does her original motion

The Princess is dancing at the Egypt Room tonight

Now don’t be late, ah don’t be late, oh don’t be late

The man with the cane and Italian shoes

He walks like a lion looking for a lonely Christian

He peeps at the Princess and his bloodshot eyes open wide

He says, meet me, princess, after the show

I’m a gambling man and I think I like your system

I’ll see you at the back of the Egypt Room tonight

Now don’t be late, ah don’t be late, oh don’t be late