When you walk up to a juke box and you slip a nickel in,
You bet your bottom dollar when that record starts to spin
Youâll hear a fiddle and a gittar with a honky tonkinâ sound
Itâs hillbilly fever and itâs speadinâ all around.
Hillbilly feverâs goinâ âround
Good olâ mountain musicâs got me down.
Itâs got me robbinâ castles, throwinâ rice and slippinâ around.
Hillbilly feverâs got me down.
When you git that jumpy feelinâ and you donât know what is wrong
Donât you worry about bother thereâs a brand new mountain song
Thatâs got the whole durn country rockinâ with that big gavel beat
Itâs the hillbilly breakdown that shakes you off a your feet
Hillbilly feverâs goinâ âround
Good olâ mountain musicâs got me down.
I spent a Sunday down in Tennessee and hereâs what I found
Hillbilly feverâs goinâ âround
When that love bug comes around you and you donât know you been stung
And you go and see a doctor and he says poke out your tongue
And he looks into that canyon, tells you brother I got news
Youâre the victim of sweet buddy and you got the love sick blues
Hillbilly feverâs goinâ âround
Good olâ mountain musicâs got me down.
Iâm gonna one foot, two foot sweet foot drag then I hold you down
Hillbilly feverâs goinâ âround
