Kansas City  (BAL 5004)  Brian Hotchkies  (Wilbert Harrison) 1959

BASIC 2

OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER

Well, you all join hands and you Circle to the Left

All the way around the ring you go

Allemande Left with the corner, Box the Gnat

4 Ladies Star Left, it’s once around the track
Now Turn your Partner by the Right, take a Full Turn

Allemande Left the corner

Come back and Promenade her to Kansas City

It’s your home town

FIGURE

Why now the Heads Square Thru, Sides Rollaway

Swing Thru with that pair
Centres Run around the ends like this
Couples Circulate and then Ferris Wheel you know

A Double Pass Thru, Leaders U-Turn Back

Swing the corner girl and Promenade

You Promenade your lady to Kansas City

It’s your home town

ALTERNATE FIGURE

Heads Square Thru, go 4 hands, Sides 1/2 Sashay

Everybody Swing Thru and then

Boys Run Right, we’ll do a Right & Left Thru

Turn the lady, you Pass Thru, Wheel & Deal

Square Thru go 3/4, round the set

Swing the corner girl and Promenade

You Promenade your lady to Kansas City

It’s your home town

ORIGINAL LYRICS

Goin' to Kansas City
Kansas City, here I come
Goin' to Kansas City
Kansas City, here I come
They got some crazy little women there
And I'm gonna get me one

 

Gonna be standin' on the corner
Twelfth Street and Vine
Gonna be standin' on the corner
Twelfth Street and Vine
With my Kansas City baby
And a bottle of Kansas City wine

 

Well, I might take the train
I might take a plane
But if I have to walk
I'm goin' just the same

 

Goin' to Kansas City
Kansas
City, here I come
They got some crazy little women there
And I'm gonna get me one

 

Ah, but you know
Yeah, must die

 

Ah, yeah

 

Now, if I stay with that woman
I know I'm gonna die
Gotta find a brand new baby
That's the reason why

 

Goin' to Kansas City
Kansas
City, here I come
They got some crazy little women there
And I'm gonna get me one
They got some crazy little women there
And I'm gonna get me one
They got some crazy little women there
And I'm gonna get me one