Anthony Boy chords by Chuck Berry

Anthony Boy - Chuck Berry
Composer: C. Berry

Original Key: C

Reached #60 on the hot 100 in 1959


Intro:


Gaug F#aug  Faug  C

#1:
C                                                     G
Eight o'clock in the morning and I'm movin' on out to school
G                                                        C
With an open book and a sleepy look the teacher can't be fooled
C                                                       G
I catch a pass in an early class the teacher will never know
G                                                     C
That I postponed my work at home watching the evening show

Chorus:
C                                        G
Hey, there Anthony boy Why you in such a rush?
G                                                 C
The girl she wanna talk to you look at him he's a blush

#2
C                                                 G
Three o'clock in the afternoon completes a day of school
G                                                   C
Before the ding completes the ring he's in the vestibule
C                                                              G
Betty and Barbara and Jeanie and Jane are yackity-yackin' with Joan
G                                                    C
About some things that Anthony told her over the telephone

Chorus:
C                                        G
Hey there Tony me boy Why you in such a rush?
G                                                 C
The girl she wanna talk to you look at him he's a blush

Instrumental:

C   G    C   G   C

#3:
C                                        G
Hey, there Anthony boy Why you in such a rush?
G                                                 C
The girl she wanna talk to you look at him how he blush
C                                                   G
Betty told me the secret that I had told her not to tell
G                                                       C
Now that you know she knows I know you know that all is well

Chorus:
C                                                    G
Come, come Tony me boy now don't let 'em get in your hair
G                                                   C
With a good education you may become a multi-millionaire

Chorus:
C                                        G
Hey, there Anthony boy Why you in such a rush?
G                                                 C
The girl she wanna talk to you look at him he's a blush

Outro  (fade):

C  G   C