Beast's Boogie - Michelle Malone

Down on Bankhead Highway in a one room country shack

You could hear his piano ringing like a custom Cadillac — like a Cadillac

Beast boogied to the ceiling — beast boogied thru the floor

I loved to hear beast boogie — but beast don’t boogie here no more

Piano by his bedside, cigarette burns in the wood

He’d let me keep the change I found in the the little house that could

Little house that could

Beast boogied to the ceiling — beast boogied thru the floor

I loved to hear beast boogie — but beast don’t boogie here no more

Lord my mama loved him — made her cry and made her laugh

He was the Sonny to her Cher, the petrol to her match — petrol to her match

Beast tore up the fly wheel riding mama’s clutch

5 times she said it’s over — 5 times was not enough

He loved me like a daughter — knew the words to all my songs

Sometimes you don’t know what you got til what you got is gone

Now the beast is gone

Beast boogied to the ceiling — beast boogied thru the floor

I loved to hear beast boogie — but beast don’t boogie here no more