The B-52's Songs - Love Shack Lyrics

The B-52's - Love Shack

The B-52's - Love Shack Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cosmic Thing
Released: 1989

Love Shack Lyrics

If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says
15 Miles to the, Love Shack! Love Shack yeah
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway
Lookin' for the love getaway
Headed for the love getaway, love getaway,
I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the Love Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack baby
A love Shack baby
Love Shack baby Love Shack
Love Shack baby Love Shack
Love Shack baby Love Shack
Love Shack baby Love Shack

Sign says, woo, stay away fools,
'Cause love rules at the Love Shack!
Well it's set way back in the middle of a field,
Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back
Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the hallway

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack baby
Love Shack baby!
Love Shack, that's where it's at
Love Shack, that's where it's at

Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin',
Wearin' next to nothing 'cause it's hot as an oven
The whole shack shimmies!
Yeah the whole shack shimmies
The whole shack shimmies when everybody's movin' around
And around and around and around
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby!
Folks linin' up outside just to get down
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby
Funky little shack!
Funky little shack!

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale
And it's about to set sail!
I got me a car, it seats about 20 so come on!
And bring your jukebox money.

The Love Shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love Shack baby
A Love Shack baby!
Love Shack baby Love Shack
Love Shack baby Love Shack
Love Shack baby Love Shack (oh baby that't where it's at)
Love Shack baby Love Shack (baby that't where it's at)

Bang bang bang on the door baby!
Knock a little louder baby!
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
I can't hear you
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
Knock a little louder sugar!
Bang bang bang on the door baby!
I can't hear you

Bang bang bang on the door baby! Knock a little louder
Bang bang on the door baby, bang bang!
On the door baby, bang bang!
On the door, bang bang!
On the door baby, bang bang!

You're what?
Tin roof
rusted!

Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!

Writer/s: PIERSON, KATE/SCHNEIDER, FRED/STRICKLAND, KEITH
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Love Shack Song Chart

This was inspired by a 1970 Temptations song called "Psychedelic Shack," which had the refrain: "Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at." The location of the actual Love Shack is not clear, but in 2004 MSNBC reported that an unoccupied, 5-room cabin with a tin roof in Athens, Georgia that had recently burned down was probably the dwelling in question. Kate Pierson lived there in the '70s.

This introduced The B-52's to a mainstream audience. They had a strong cult following, especially in the gay community, but not a broad audience.

Towards the end, the music stops and Cindy Wilson wails: "Tin Roof, Rusted." The line is commonly misheard.

The lyrics are fun and harmless, but they can be interpreted as being about a place where people go to have sex. At Disney World, you will never see Mickey Mouse dancing to it - really - they refuse to play it at Disney weddings.

The video was shot at a house in Upstate New York belonging to a friend of the band. He can be seen in the garden as the camera sweeps by the window.

Drag queen Rupaul, unknown at the time, is in the video. He had a dance hit called "Supermodel" a few years later.

Nile Rodgers and Don Was produced this. Rodgers has produced hits for Peter Gabriel, Madonna and David Bowie, as well as his group Chic, who had Disco hits with "Le Freak" and "Good Times." Was has worked with Jewel, Bob Dylan, Elton John and The Rolling Stones. He also had his own group in the '80s called Was Not Was, who had a hit with "Walk The Dinosaur."

This was the B-52's first Top 10 hit in the US.

The group performed this on an episode of The Simpsons as "Glove Slap."

Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson performed this at the 2002 Jammy Awards with the group Particle. Since the awards honored jam bands, they stretched the song into an extended jam.

Over the years, various adult video stores have cropped up using the Love Shack name. There was also a movie released on video in 2010 called Love Shack, which was about a group of porn stars who get together to make a film in honor of a deceased producer.

The horns were provided by The Uptown Horns, a New York-based section that toured with the J. Geils Band on their Freeze Frame tour and played on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album.