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Black Grape – Shake Well Before Opening (1995) | Track profile | Dork

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Black Grape
It’s Great When You’re Straight...Yeah
Shake Well Before Opening

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Shake Well Before Opening

Release date: 14th October 1995

From It’s Great When You’re Straight...Yeah

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About This Track

"Shake Well Before Opening" is a track by Black Grape, from the album It’s Great When You’re Straight...Yeah, released 14th October 1995. Full lyrics are available below.

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Black Grape

Black Grape

Lyrics

Shake Well Before Opening

Funky!

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!

Rub-a-dub-dub waste the doorman at a club

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!

Rub-a-dub-dub waste the doorman at a club

Shake well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Pleasure, nourishment

A smile of some encouragement

But no, you get it

No you twist

When you're wrapped up to tight and you eat

You're always teasing!

Teasing, teasing, teasing...

Teasing, teasing, teasing...

Rub-a-dub-dub waste the doorman at a club

Shake well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Nailed your own head to the dartboard

You used a Rolex to roll up your keks

You nailed your own head to the dartboard

You used a Rolex to roll up your keks

You rag and bone man

When you're on your own man

We're rag and bone man

We make your own man

Well you eat and you drink

All the chemicals in the world

Make you seek

Bleak

Shake well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Rub-a-dub-dub waste the doorman at a club

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Shake it well before opening

Shake it well before opening

Shake it well before opening

Serve it out or not

Shake well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot

Shake it well before opening

Serve it chilled or hot...

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Track details

From It’s Great When You’re Straight...Yeah

1995

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Album

It’s Great When You’re Straight...Yeah

Release year

1995

—Submarine
—A Big Day In The North
—Yeah Yeah Brother
—Shake Your Money
—Little Bob
—Shake Well Before Opening
—Tramazi Parti
—Kelly's Heroes

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