Framed chords by Ritchie Valens

Framed - Ritchie Valens
Composers: Lieber, Stoller
Original key: G
From the album the best of Ritchie Valens.



  Typical riff repeated at beginning of every line of the verses:
   G
e|---------------|
B|---5---3-------|
G|---5---3h4-----|
D|-5---5-----5---|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|

The chord backing in the chorus from R.V in the chorus are single chords as marked. the chords in ()
show where the backing changes.

#1:

G
  I was walkin' down the street, mindin' my own affair
G
  When two policemen grabbed me, unaware
G
  He says "Is your name Henry?" I says "Why sure"
G                                G7
  He says "You the boy I bin lookin' for"

Chorus:
[No chord]     B9 C9 C9  C9    (G)    F#7 G7 G7  G7
I was framed,      framed, I was blamed,     framed
      (D )          C#9 D9 C7       C7               F#7 G7
Well, I never knew    nothin,   but I always get framed        Oh, framed



#2:
G
  They took him in the line up and let those bright lights shine,
G
  There was ten poor souls like me in that line
G
  I knew I was a victim of someone's evil plan
G                                         G7
  When a stool pigeon walked in and says "That's your man"

Chorus:
[No chord]  B9 C9              G      F#7 G7
I was framed,    framed, I was blamed,      oh framed, framed, framed
         D         C#9 D9   C7                G      F#7 G7
Well, I never knew nothin,   but I always get framed        Oh, framed


#3:
G
  Well, the prosecutin' attorney started a'prosecutin' me
G
  Man, that cat didn't give me the one, but the third degree
G
  He says "Where were you on the night of July 1953?"
G                                         G7
  "Man I was just home just a tweedly-dee"

Chorus:
[No chord]   B9 C9                 G     F#7 G7
I was framed     oh framed, I was blamed,    oh framed, framed, framed,
       D          C#9 D9  C7                 G      F#7 G7