Let It Rock Chords
by Chuck Berry10,150 views, added to favorites 619 times
Difficulty: | absolute beginner |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Capo: | 1st fret |
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by Chuck Berry 1959
Capo 1
Intro:
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[Verse 1]
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Well in the heat of the day, down in Mobile, Alabama
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Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
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I Got to get some money, buy some brand new shoes
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Try to find somebody take away these blues
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She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun
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Payday's coming when my work is all done
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[Verse 2]
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Well later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
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All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow
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Sitting in a tee-pee built right on the track
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Rolling them bones 'till the foreman come back
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Pick up your belongings boys and scatter about
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We got an off scheduled train coming two miles out
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[Verse 3]
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Everybody's scrambling and jumping around
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Picking up the money, tear the teep-pee down
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Foreman was in panic, 'bout to go insane
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Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
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Engineer blowing the whistle long and long
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Can't stop the train we got to let it roll on
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Let It Rock – Chuck Berry
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5 comments

Nobody does this song better than Bob Segar on his smokin op's album.
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Nice beginner guitar song to learn, love it, especially The Dead or Widespread Panic playing it!!
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Check out Motorhead doing this on the Leeterman show!
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