This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Hey hoe come on lets go
Well I was born a country boy
Raised on Haggard and Strait
She was born in da hood
The sure looks good
And she thinks rap is great
So we meet in the middle
Beat box and a fiddle
Together were bad to the bone
Now I'm clogging to Snoop Doggy Dogg
And she's break dancing to Jones
Its hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on let's throw down
Gonna have a hoedown
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
From outlaw country to gangsta rap
Together we's riding home
From Soul Train to Shania Twain
Wes got it going on
Yippie yi yo look at her go
Mama really knocks me out
From Jo Dee Messina to funky cold medina
That's what its all about
It's hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on lets throw down
Gonna have a hoedown
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
Oh we loves the man attraction
any ole dance will do
We like all the Jacksons
Janet, Michael, Tito, Stonewall, Jessie, Reggie, Alan too
Its hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on lets throw down
Gonna have a hoe down
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
It's hip hop and honky tonk
Yeah I want to send out a holler out
To my home boys down there at the
Scully Mully clean up shop
Ya know nails, and crumbling, and woo bow hair
Ya know I love you
Work it Cledus
Well I was born a country boy
Raised on Haggard and Strait
She was born in da hood
The sure looks good
And she thinks rap is great
So we meet in the middle
Beat box and a fiddle
Together were bad to the bone
Now I'm clogging to Snoop Doggy Dogg
And she's break dancing to Jones
Its hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on let's throw down
Gonna have a hoedown
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
From outlaw country to gangsta rap
Together we's riding home
From Soul Train to Shania Twain
Wes got it going on
Yippie yi yo look at her go
Mama really knocks me out
From Jo Dee Messina to funky cold medina
That's what its all about
It's hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on lets throw down
Gonna have a hoedown
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
Oh we loves the man attraction
any ole dance will do
We like all the Jacksons
Janet, Michael, Tito, Stonewall, Jessie, Reggie, Alan too
Its hip hop and honky tonk
We can bust a move to a funky groove
Or a hardcore country song
Come on lets throw down
Gonna have a hoe down
Party all night long
Its hip hop and honky tonk
It's hip hop and honky tonk
Yeah I want to send out a holler out
To my home boys down there at the
Scully Mully clean up shop
Ya know nails, and crumbling, and woo bow hair
Ya know I love you
Work it Cledus
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Hip Hop & Honky Tonk Lyrics as written by Richard William Fagan Joe Collins
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