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