WILLIE NELSON - STAY ALL NIGHT(STAY A LITTLE LONGER)-

STAY ALL NIGHT(STAY A LITTLE LONGER)

WILLIE NELSON

Songwriter: willie nelson

Country: u.s.a.

Album: shotgun willie

Label: atlantic records

Genre: country

Year: 1973

"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus:

Stay all night, stay a little longer,

Dance all night, dance a little longer,

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner,

Don't see why you can't stay a little longer.

The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song – "Shinbone Alley":

You ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally, She lives way down on Shinbone Alley. Number on the gate, the number on the door, The next house over is the grocery store.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded it in 1945 and it reached number three in 1946. Willie Nelson (number 22 in 1973) and Mel Tillis (number 17 in 1982) also charted Top 40 hits. The song has been recorded numerous times.

[Verse 1]

Can't go home if you're going by the mill

Cause the bridge's washed out

At the bottom of the hill

Big Creek's up Little Creek's level

Plow my corn with a double shovel

Stay all night stay a little longer

Dance all night dance a little longer

Pull off your coat throw it in the corner

Don't see why you can't stay a little longer

Sitting in the window singing to my love

Slop bucket fell from the window up above

Mule and the grasshopper eating ice cream

Mule got sick so they laid him on the green

[Chorus 1]

Stay all night stay a little longer

Dance all night dance a little longer

Pull off your coat throw it in the corner

Don't see why you can't stay a little longer

[guitar]

[Verse 2]

Well you ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally

She lives away down on Shinbone Alley

Number on the gate the number on the door

The next house over is the grocery store

[Chorus 1][x2]