Framed chords by Ritchie Valens

Chords with lyrics

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


 Typical riff repeated at beginning of every line of the verses:
  G+G
e|---------------|
BB|---5---3-------|
G+G|---5---3h4-----|
D MajorD|-5---5-----5---|
A augmentedA|---------------|
E MajorE|---------------|

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+G
 I was walkin' down the street, mindin' my own affair
G+G
 When two policemen grabbed me, unaware
G+G
 He says "Is your name Henry?" I says "Why sure"
G+G                G7G7
 He says "You the boy I bin lookin' for"

Chorus:
[No chord]   B9B9 C9C9 C9 C9C9  (G+G)  F#7F#7 G7G7 G7 G7G7
I was framed,   framed, I was blamed,   framed
   (D MajorD )     C#9C#9 D9D9 C7C7    C7C7        F#7F#7 G7G7
Well, I never knew  nothin,  but I always get framed    Oh, framed


#2:
G+G
 They took him in the line up and let those bright lights shine,
G+G
 There was ten poor souls like me in that line
G+G
 I knew I was a victim of someone's evil plan
G+G                     G7G7
 When a stool pigeon walked in and says "That's your man"

Chorus:
[No chord] B9B9 C9C9       G+G   F#7F#7 G7G7
I was framed,  framed, I was blamed,   oh framed, framed, framed
     D MajorD     C#9C#9 D9D9  C7C7        G+G   F#7F#7 G7G7
Well, I never knew nothin,  but I always get framed    Oh, framed


#3:
G+G
 Well, the prosecutin' attorney started a'prosecutin' me
G+G
 Man, that cat didn't give me the one, but the third degree
G+G
 He says "Where were you on the night of July 1953?"
G+G                     G7G7
 "Man I was just home just a tweedly-dee"

Chorus:
[No chord]  B9B9 C9C9         G+G   F#7F#7 G7G7
I was framed   oh framed, I was blamed,  oh framed, framed, framed,
    D MajorD     C#9C#9 D9D9 C7C7         G+G   F#7F#7 G7G7