Oh, gather 'round friends, why hurry

Let's all stay a little longer

You ought to see my blue-eyed Sally

She lives a way down on Shinbone Alley

The number on the gate, the number on the door

And the next house over is the grocery store

Stay all night, stay a little longer

Dance all night, dance a little longer

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner

Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

Can't go home if you're going by the mill

'Cause the bridge washed out at the bottom of the hill

Big creek's up, and the big creek's level

Plow my corn with a double shovel

Stay all night, stay a little longer

Dance all night, dance a little longer

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner

Don't see why you don't stay a little longer (yeah)

Sitting in the window, singing to my love

When slop bucket fell from the window up above

Mule and the grasshopper eating ice cream

Mule got sick and they laid him on the green

Stay all night, stay a little longer

Dance all night, dance a little longer

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner

Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

Grab your girl and pat her on the head

If she don't like biscuits, feed her cornbread

The girls around big creek, about half grown

They jump on a man like a dog on a bone

Stay all night, stay a little longer

Dance all night, dance a little longer

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner

Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

Stay all night, stay a little longer

Dance all night, dance a little longer

Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner

Don't see why you don't stay a little longer