Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran
Intro:
[F] [F] [F] [F]
[F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff x 2]
Verse 1:
[F] I'm gonna raise a fuss,
I'm gonna raise a holler [F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff]
[F] 'Bout a workin' all summer
Just to try to earn dollar [F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff]
|Chorus 1:
|[Bb] Every time I call my baby, try to get a date
|My [F*] [Stop] boss says "no dice son you gotta work late"
|[Bb] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a'gonna do
|But there [F*] [Stop] ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Instrumental:
[F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff x 2]
Verse 2:
[F] Well my Mom and Poppa told me
Son you gotta make some money [F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff]
[F] If you wanna use the car
To go 'ridin next Sunday [F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff]
|Chorus 2:
|Well I [Bb] didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick.
|Now you [F*] [Stop] can't have the car 'cause you didn't work a lick"
|[Bb] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a'gonna do
|But there [F*] [Stop] ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Instrumental:
[F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff x 2]
Verse 3:
I'm [F] gonna take two weeks
Gonna have fine vacation [F] [Bb] [C] [F]
I'm [F] gonna take my problem
To the United Nations [F] [Bb] [C] [F]
|Chorus 3:
|[Bb] Well I called my congressman and he said, quote
|"I'd [F*] [Stop] like to help you son but you're too young to vote'
|[Bb] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a'gonna do
|But there [F*] [Stop] ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Outro:
[F] [Bb] [C] [F] [Riff x 2]