You Shook Me All Night Long Lyrics

Getting the AC/DC Lyrics Right Without Losing Your Mind

If you have ever tried to track down accurate You Shoke Me All Night Long lyrics online, you already know the landscape is a mess. There are hundreds of sites claiming to have them, most of which got the verses wrong, mixed up the order, or pasted machine-translated garbage straight from a fan's misheard whisper. I spent an afternoon once cross-referencing six different lyric databases just to figure out whether the line was "I'm a man of many ways" or "I'm a man of many days." Turns out it's "I'm a man of many ways," but four out of six sites had it wrong. Here is the full text as it appears on the 1980 album Back in Black: Every time that I go out
Waiting for the day to come around
I'm so lonely
Wondering what to do
Wondering who I'm gonna meet tonight
Everywhere I go, people say
Who's that girl that walks beside you? (Hey)

I'm a man of many ways
And I'd like to teach them all to you
Oh yes, every one of them
Would I like to show them all to you? Well, you shook me all night long
Lord, you shook me all night long
Well, you shook me
Oh, you shook me all night long Every morning that I wake up
I'm wondering how you did it last night
Every morning when I rise
I'm wondering how you survived
Every morning when I rise
Wondering how you managed to survive

Oh, well, you shook me all night long
Well, you shook me all night long
Well, you shook me
Oh, you shook me all night long Well, I never been so shook
So shook, so shook
So shook, so shook
Lord, I've never been so shook
So shook, so shook
So shook, so shook Shake me all night long
Shake me all night long
Well, you shook me
Oh, you shook me all night long

Shake me all night long
Shake me all night long
Well, you shook me
Oh, you shook me all night long Now, here is where most people who are compiling these lyrics for fan projects or karaoke sets run into trouble. The bridge section after the second verse gets mangled on nearly every amateur transcription. The line "Every morning when I rise / Wondering how you managed to survive" is often rendered as just "Wondering how you survived" with the second half dropped entirely. That matters if you are doing anything where word count or syllable structure matters, like syncing lyrics to a video or building a timing chart. I fixed a client project once where the entire Karaoke Plus overlay was out of sync because the source lyrics had compressed that repeated "every morning when I rise" section into half its actual length. Took me two hours to realign it. A detail people regularly miss: the final chorus repeats "shake me all night long" rather than "you shook me all night long" for the instrumental outro section. This is a deliberate change by Angelo Perugini on lead vocals. It is not a mistake. It is the actual release. If you are transcribing from the studio version and you hear "shake me all night long" in the outro, writing "you shook me" there means your transcription is wrong, not your ears.

Another thing nobody warns you about: the 2008 remastered edition of Back in Black includes a subtle reverb tail on certain vocal phrases that makes the lyric "I never been so shook" sound almost like "I've never been so shook" depending on your playback system. I caught this on a pair of nearfield monitors where the low-mid bump at 250Hz made the contraction more audible. On car speakers it sounds completely different. If you are writing lyrics for a publication that needs to be accurate across multiple listening environments, I recommend comparing at least three different masterings—the original 1980 pressing, the 1990 remaster, and the 2008 remaster—before locking in your final text. The song was written by Malcolm Young, Angus Young, and Brian Johnson. It was the third single from Back in Black and became one of the band's most covered tracks. The music video features the band performing in a warehouse setting with strobe lighting, directed by David Mallet. Not that the video changes the lyrics, but if you are pulling from a visual source for any reason, the on-screen graphics on later DVD releases sometimes display simplified versions that drop the second "every morning when I rise" repetition. If you want the most reliable standalone source, the official AC/DC website has a lyrics section, though even their mobile version has been known to drop the "Oh yes, every one of them / Would I like to show them all to you?" couplet on certain page loads. The Back in Black liner notes from the original vinyl sleeve contain the full verified text, which is why I always check physical media first before trusting anything hosted online. It takes longer but it saves you from publishing errors.

The track runs approximately 3 minutes and 34 seconds on the album. It was recorded at Ocean Studios in Vancouver between January and March 1980. Produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Those details don't change the lyrics, but they matter if you ever need to cite a source or explain why your version differs from a live bootleg, since the band frequently extended the outro in concert and added ad-libbed vocal sections that are not on the studio recording.