Lido Shuffle
"Lido Shuffle" is a song written by Boz Scaggs and David Paich and introduced on the 1976 Boz Scaggs album, Silk Degrees.
Scaggs recalled: "'Lido [Shuffle]' was a song that I'd been banging around. I...took the idea of the shuffle [from] a song that Fats Domino did called 'The Fat Man' that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind of singing along with it. Then I showed it to Paich and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being 'Lido Shuffle'."
Members of the backup band on "Lido Shuffle" include David Paich, who later went on to form Toto.
Released as the album's fourth single, "Lido Shuffle" reached #11 US and #13 in the UK Singles Chart. In Australia the track spent three weeks at #2 as a double A-side hit with "What Can I Say".
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Lido Shuffle
Lido missed the boat that day, he left the shack
But that was all he missed and he aint coming back
At a tombstone bar in a juke joint car he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi-town Lido put the money down, let it roll
He says one more job oughta get it
One last shot before we quit
One for the road
Lido whoa-ooo
Heres for the money
Heres for the show
Lido be waiting for another go
Lido whoa-ooo
He says one more job oughta get it
One last shot before we quit
One more for the road
Lido been running, having great big fun, till he got
the note
Saying tow the line or blow it and that was all she
wrote
Hed be making like a V line heading for the borderline,
going for broke
Saying one more hand oughta do it
This job, aint nothing to it
One for the road
Lido whoa- ooo
Heres for the money
Heres for the show
Lido be waiting for another go
Lido whoa-ooo
One more job oughta get it
One last shot till we quit it
One more for the road
Lido whoa-ooo
Heres for the money
Heres for the show
Lido be waitin for another go