Live 30 Apr 2013 version
[Spoken intro:] One more for Oslo! Give me that chord boys, alright. Alright. Somebody give me a D. Yeah yeah yeah. How do we start this thing? Three beats? Three beats? Yeah, alright. Well, before we leave Oslo now. Before we leave Norway. There's one thing I need you to do for me. I said there's one thing I need you to do for me. There's just one little thing I need you to do for me. One little thing. I want you to raise your hands in the air now. And what I want you to do, what I want you to do, is...
You know you make me wanna (Shout)
Kick my heels up and (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Throw my head back and (Shout)
Don't forget now (Shout)
Don't forget to say you will (Shout)
Don't forget to say yeah yeah (Shout)
Say it right now baby
Say it right now baby
Come on baby say you will
Come on baby say you will
Say that you love me (Say)
Say that you need me (Say)
Say that you want me (Say)
You wanna please me (Say)
Say that you love me (Say)
Say that you need me (Say)
Say that you want me (Say)
I still remember when you used to be nine years old
(Shooby-doo-wop, do-wop, wop wop wop)
I was a fool for you baby from the bottom of my soul
(Shooby-doo-wop, do-wop, wop wop wop)
Now that you've grown up old enough, old enough to say yeah yeah
(Shooby-doo-wop, do-wop, wop wop wop)
Don't leave baby, I want you to say yeah yeah
(Shooby-doo-wop, do-wop)
I want you to know
I said I want you to know right now
You been good to me baby
Better than I been to myself
And if you ever leave me
I don't want nobody else
I said I want you to know
I said I want you to know right now
You know you make me wanna (Shout)
Kick my heels up and (Shout)
Throw my hands up and (Shout)
Everybody now (Shout)
Everybody say (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Well I want you to say that you love (Say)
Say that you need me (Say)
Say that you want me (Say)
Yeah believe me (Say)
Say that you love me (Say)
Say that you need me (Say)
Say that you want me (Say)
You know you make me wanna (Shout)
Kick my heels up (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but silent now
A little but silent now
A little but silent
A little but lower now
A little but lower now
A little but lower now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
A little but softer now
Alright now, say it with me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah)
You know you make me wanna (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Hands up (Shout)
Hands in the air (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
Come on yeah (Shout)
You know you make me wanna (Shout)
Kick my heels up and (Shout)
Thanks for coming out to the show tonight! (Shout, shout, shout)
We love you! (Shout, shout)
We'll be seeing you! (Shout)
(Shout)
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Come on horns! (Shout)
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Thank you! Thank you Norway!
[Spoken outro:] Good bless, we'll be seeing you. Thank you so much.
SHOUT is a 1959 song by The Isley Brothers. See the The Isley Brothers for more details.
The above lyrics are for the live 30 Apr 2013 performance of SHOUT at Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway, during the Wrecking Ball Tour. The song was the show closer.
Other versions of SHOUT were also officially released.
SHOUT was performed 18 times during the Wrecking Ball Tour (133 dates, March 2012 to September 2013), almost exclusively during the 2013 European and South American legs of the tour. The song was always played towards the end of the show. The live 11 Jul 2013 version of SHOUT was released on the Ippodromo Delle Capannelle, Rome 2013 official live download in 2015. The live 24 Jul 2013 version of SHOUT was released on the Leeds July 24, 2013 official live download in 2018.
SHOUT was performed 23 times during the High Hopes Tour (34 dates, January to May 2014). The song was always played towards the end of the show. Audio recordings for most High Hopes Tour shows are officially available for purchase.
SHOUT was performed 72 times during The River Tour 2016 (75 dates, January to September 2016), skipping only three consecutive shows in Europe in May. The song was always played towards the end of the show. Audio recordings for all The River Tour 2016 shows are officially available for purchase.
SHOUT was performed 14 times during the Summer '17 Tour (14 dates, January and February 2017). The song was always played towards the end of the show. Audio recordings for all Summer '17 Tour shows are officially available for purchase.
SHOUT was performed off-tour on 17 Jul 1982 at Big Man's West in Red Bank, NJ, during a guest appearance with The Iron City Houserockers.
SHOUT was performed off-tour on 31 Dec 1982 at Harkness House For Ballet Arts in New York City, NY, during the wedding reception for Steven Van Zandt and his bride Maureen Santoro. Lester Chambers & The Chamber Brothers supplied the music at the reception. Best man Bruce Springsteen and various other guests, including Gary U.S. Bonds, Southside Johnny, and the E Street Band, joined the band for a six-song set. No audio recording of this show is known to exist.
SHOUT was performed during the fifth (2004) annual Light Of Day benefit.
Bruce Springsteen has used a snippet of SHOUT during A LOVE SO FINE (see the live 22 Sep 1974 version for an example), TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT, and MARY'S PLACE. During the Born To Run Tour, SHOUT was played once in a medley with A LOVE SO FINE and Sam Cooke's HAVING A PARTY. See the live 08 Aug 1975 version of A LOVE SO FINE for more details.
List of available versions of SHOUT on this website:
SHOUT [Live 30 Apr 2013 version]