Ballin' Keen

Ballin' Keen - Sandy Lee/Louis Gittens

Now down in the state of tennessee

There's a real cool cat called balling keen

He likes to rock and he likes to roll

He's got rocking in his soul

Well last saturday night about twelve o'clock

Down on the corner they's starting to rock

Balling keen was having a ball

Swing them short and swing them tall

Then bulldog johnny come strolling in

Six feet six and he ain't no friend

Kicked off a shoe and he knocked out a light

He said move out cats there's gonna be a fight

Well bulldog johnny sorta cased the place

An' he looked old ball right square in the face

Balling keen was a holding the ground

He said me or you one is leaving town

Then the lights went out and they had a fight

Everybody wondered what happened that night

Nobody saw what was going on

When the lights come on bulldog was gone

Now down in the state of tennessee

There's the strangest legend that you ever did see

Nobody knows the answer 'cause nobody seen

Nobody cept old balling keen