Chords with lyrics
Go, Go, Go - Chuck Berry
Composer: C. Berry
Label: Pye International
Originally released as the BB side to "Come On"
Reached #38 in 1963 in the UK. Released on the album "Chuck Berry on stage".
For younger readers - Ahmad Jamal and Errol Garner were jazz pianists, Stan Kenton
a band leader, pianist and composer.
Intro:
C7C7 G7G7
#1:
C majorC
Down goes the sun, sitting, ducking on guitar
C majorC
Up comes the moon, twinkle, twinkle little star
C majorC
One and one is two hitching two, to make it four
C majorC C7C7 FF
Johnny, get your guitar, let's go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break:
FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G7G7
#2:
C majorC
Johnny plays the guitar at the weekly record hop
C majorC
He starts to twist and turn and then they wouldn't let him stop
C majorC
Girls so shook up, seeing him shaking on the show
C majorC C7C7 FF
Everybody starts to holler go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo):
FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G7G7
#3
C majorC
Duckwalking on his knees, pecking like a hen
C majorC
Looking like a locomotive, here he comes again
C majorC
Meow said the kitty, puppy, bow, wow, wow
C majorC C7C7 FF
Go and pick your guitar, Johnny don't stop now, oh baby
Instrumental break:
FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G7G7
#4:
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Backed up by a jazz band, laying on the wood
C majorC
Mixin' Ahmad Jamal in my Johnny BB Goode
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Sneaking Errol Garner in my Sweet Sixteen
C majorC C7C7 FF
Now they tell me Stan Kenton's cutting Maybelline, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo):
FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G7G7
#5:
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Papa said to Mama, this I never understood
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How he picks his guitar, make it sound so good
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Used to sound goofy but I guess it's all right
C majorC C7C7 FF
Papa's taking Mama to the gig tomorrow night, oh baby
Instrumental outro fade: