Ready To Rip
"I'm like a tight pair of trousers, I'm ready to rip!"
That's what Crazy Eddie said to Louie the Lip.
"It's Friday night, I've got a wad of twenty-dollar bills..
"I wanna blow it all on pretty girls and cheap thrills."
Eddie said, "I'm ready Louie, let's go hit the strip...
"Cuz I'm ready, ready, ready, I'm ready to rip!"
Crazy grew up Eddie in the town of Due East
A little west of Nowhere where the maps expect it least
Louie hailed all the way from far down in the mouth
A lonely place just offa Route 11 heading south
Louie stopped for Eddie on a northern hitchhiking trip
Crazy shook his hand and said, “I’m ready to rip.”
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Well he was ready to rip, he was ready to roll
All the way from New York out to Jackson Hole
He didn’t have no clue, barely had a grip
But he was ready, he was ready, he was ready to rip
Louie met two girls and started buying lotsa booze
Things were going great until he showed them his tattoos
Eddie said, "You really dropped the meat into the dirt
"Pick it up and dust it off and go put on your shirt."
That's when Louie learned Eddie was smarter than a whip.
And he was ready, he was ready, he was ready to rip.
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They hit the road and left a lot of rubber in their tracks
Just a couple dharma bums like Cassady and Kerouac
This story ain’t the blues ain’t no unhappily ever after
It’s only rock and roll, liquor and girls in every chapter
You wanna know the moral of their relationship?
Ya gotta be ready, ready, ready to rip!
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