[Intro: Balkan brass-band male lead, blaring trumpets, big bass drum] Hajde, hajde, twelve of us and a van Opa, Sycamore Street, here comes the band [Verse 1: Balkan brass-band male lead, fast and joyful, trumpets and snare] Got a call on Thursday for a birthday, half past eight Fourteen Sycamore, the lady said, and please don't be late Dragan wrote it on his hand and Dragan's hand was wet with beer So it read as forty-one by the time we parked it here Twelve of us in matchin' vests with the trumpets polished bright Knock the door, a man in slippers, and we hit him with it right He said fellas, it's not my birthday, and I'm not havin' guests We said sir, you're havin' twelve now, and we're wearin' matchin' vests [Hook: Balkan brass-band male lead, full brass, band shouts opa] Wrong address, but we play it like it's right Fourteen, forty-one, it's a party either way tonight Hajde, hajde, get your slippers on the floor If it's the wrong house, then it's the house we came here for [Verse 2: Balkan brass-band male lead, faster, sousaphone pumping] Second song, the man in slippers took his toothbrush for a mic Third song, half the block was on his lawn and someone brought a bike Fourth song, down the hill come fourteen Sycamore with a cake Birthday girl and twenty cousins sayin', hey, was this a mistake Then the lady from the phone call said we waited there since eight With a backyard full of balloons and an empty paper plate Then she heard us down the hill and said, well, Lucy, grab the chairs And she marched the whole thing down to us and right up Walter's stairs [Hook: Balkan brass-band male lead, full brass, band shouts opa] Wrong address, but we play it like it's right Fourteen, forty-one, it's a party either way tonight Hajde, hajde, get your slippers on the floor If it's the wrong house, then it's the house we came here for [Breakdown: Balkan brass-band male lead, cake blasts, three low sousaphone blasts as the cake comes up the steps, every horn lands on the fourth] One for the candles comin' up the stairs Two for the cousins with the folding chairs Three for the man in slippers, he's the host now, give him room Four, hajde, every horn, and let the whole street boom [Hook: Balkan brass-band male lead, full brass, band shouts opa] Wrong address, but we play it like it's right Fourteen, forty-one, it's a party either way tonight Hajde, hajde, get your slippers on the floor If it's the wrong house, then it's the house we came here for [Outro: Balkan brass-band male lead, the brass ringing out] Fourteen, forty-one, Dragan, wash your hand Opa, Sycamore Street, that's the wrong-house band [End]
