Jim Lowe Songs - The Green Door Lyrics

Jim Lowe - The Green Door

Jim Lowe - The Green Door Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hits From The '50s
Released: 1956

The Green Door Lyrics

Midnight, one more night without sleeping,
Watching till the morning comes creeping.
Green door, what's that secret you're keeping?

There's an old piano
And they play it hot behind The Green Door;
Don't know what they're doing
But they laugh a lot behind the green door.
Wish they'd let me in
So I could find out what's behind the green door.

Knocked once, tried to tell them I'd been there;
Door slammed, hospitality's thin there.
Wonder just what's going on in there.

Saw an eyeball peeping
Through a smoky cloud behind the green door;
When I said "Joe sent me"
Someone laughed out loud behind the green door.
All I want to do
Is join the happy crowd behind the green door.

Midnight, one more night without sleeping,
Watching till the morning comes creeping.
Green door, what's that secret you're keeping?

Green door what's that secret you're keeping?

Green door!

Writer/s: BOB DAVIE, MARVIN MOORE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC
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The Green Door

Bob Davie wrote this and played the honky-tonk piano. It was inspired by a popular music club in Dallas, Texas where the kids who weren't allowed in hung around outside a yellow door. Presumably "green door" sounded better.

Jim Lowe was a DJ and Country singer who recorded this in an apartment in Greenwich Village. Backing vocals were by The High Fives.

In the UK, Frankie Vaughan's cover version reached #2.

In 1981, the '50s revivalist Shakin' Stevens covered this and took this song to the top of the UK charts.