Sam`s Last Boogie

<br>(K. Grimwood/E. Idlet)<br>In the darkest part of the city,<br>And on the coldest night of the year,<br>A dangerous man with a gun in his hand<br>Put an end to a brief career.<br>You won`t read about it in the paper,<br>You won`t hear about it on the news,<br>But handsome Sam the Boogie Man<br>hung up his dancing shoes.<br>Let me tell you `bout Sam the Boogie Man<br>He was the king of Second Street<br>He was a dancer from his fingertips<br>To the bottoms of his feet.<br>Well, inside that boy an unnatural joy<br>Just swinging to the beat.<br>His dips and slides would mesmerize<br>Each woman that he`d meet.<br>And that boy could boogie!<br>Sure could boogie!<br>Yeah, boogie was the beat that moved the feet<br>Of Sam that Boogie Man.<br>Well, Ruby was this showgirl<br>with opalescent eyes,<br>An ivory smile and a diamond heart,<br>And alabaster thighs.<br>He met her in the summertime<br>Out on a parquet floor,<br>And he danced her from those neon lights<br>Right to her bedroom door.<br>And that boy could boogie!<br>Sure could boogie!<br>Yeah, boogie was the beat that moved the feet<br>Of Sam that Boogie Man.<br>He thought it was another fling,<br>But that girl was much too strong,<br>She swore that she would see him dead<br>If he ever did her wrong.<br>As summer lost its leaves to fall,<br>So this fine affair<br>Was fading fast, it couldn`t last;<br>Sam vanished in the air.<br>And that boy could boogie!<br>Sure could boogie!<br>Yeah, boogie was the beat that moved the feet<br>Of Sam that Boogie Man.<br>Well, he couldn`t go to dance halls<br>`cause he knew that he`d be found;<br>But he slipped up in Saint Louie,<br>When he heard that boogie sound.<br>And he was tearing up the dance floor<br>when they escorted him outside;<br>Said, "You want to dance, well here`s your chance."<br>And they took him for a little ride.<br>It was Sam`s last boogie,<br>Sam`s last boogie,<br>It was Sam`s last boogie<br>but he boogied `til the day he died!