Chords for 'Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie' by Long John Baldry

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[A#m] You know, I remember [B] _ [C#] a few years ago, _ [D#m] [G#] some funny things used to happen to [C#m] me.
[D#m] _ [F#] _ [C#] About 1956, 57, _
[G#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ at that time there was no blues scene or _ _ not really any kind of scene in [F#] London.
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[F#] I used to go out [C#] and play my guitar _ in the streets, [G#] _ _ [F#] sing things, _
_ [C#] passing the hat around.
I remember one particular night, _ _ I was _ playing my guitar in a little alleyway just off of Waldo [F#] Street in Soho.
_ _ _ And [C#] _ I got busted by the [G#] police.
_ _ _ [F#] And this police _ [C#] came up, _ [A#m] _ [A] [G#m] dragged me and my guitar [C#] and my hat full of pennies [F#] off to the police station.
[C#] _ _ Anyway, the next day [F#] I had to appear in Marlborough Street Police Court.
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[C#] _ _ _ _ And _ [G#] _
it was quite a [Fm] day.
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[C#] Police officer [G#m] giving his evidence. _
[C#] _ I was proceeding in a southerly direction, my lord.
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When I heard _ [B] _ [F#] strange [Em] sounds [C#] coming from a ward or place, my [G#] lord.
_ A [F] sort [F#] of [A#] boogey [G#]-woogey [C#] music was being played.
_ [G#m] _ On further [C#] investigation, _ _ _ _ I saw the defendant standing there _ with [F#] a guitar _ and an old hat on [C#] the floor, _ collecting pennies.
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Well, I decided that [F#] he was [G#m] contravening [C#] a breach of the peace there.
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[C#] As there was a traffic jam about five miles long down Waldo Street, wondering what all the _ fuss was [F#] about.
_ _ So then I arrested the _
[C#] defendant. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] Just one moment, officer.
[F#] _ _ What [C#] is this boogey-woogey music [G#m] you were talking about?
[C#] _ Oh, well, my lord. _ _
So the officer getting out his notebook, obviously been doing up his homework.
[F#] _ It's a kind of _ jazz rhythm [C#] music, peculiar to the American Negro. _ _
[G#m] _ Oh, [F#] what was the defendant [C#m] doing _
[C#] playing this kind of music there [G#] in Waldo Street?
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ Anyway, _ I got with a caution.
_ _ A [F#] year's conditional discharge.
_ But I'll always [C#] remember that policeman and his [F] boogey [G] [G#]-woogey.
So don't try to lay no [F#] boogey [F#m]-woogey on [G#] the king of rock and roll. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Don't tell me none of the old lies, woman, cause all you know I've told.
_ I won't tell [C#m] you no [C#] alibi, sister, cause all you got I've stolen.
_ [F#] You better leave that midnight a-shrinking to the one who worked it out.
_ [C#] _ I don't want to hear no rock-a-tock-a-shrinking to the one who shot [C#m] your mouth.
_ _ [G#] And everything is gonna work out tight [F#] if you act [F#m] like you're the type.
[C#m] Just don't try [Em] to lay no boogey-woogey on [E] the king of rock [G#] and roll.
_ [C#] But don't feed me no TV dust, when you know that I'm yours to stake.
[B] _ _ [C#] I don't need no rank beginners when the time is shake-a-shake.
_ [F#] _ You better pull your thing together, we're chilling just it out.
[G#m] And [C#] if you feel that you just can't dig it, you know you don't [C#m] know what it's all about. _
[G#] It ain't a matter of _ parkabees, [F#] that's gonna justify your soul.
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Just don't try to lay no boogey-woogey on the [G#m] king of rock and roll.
Ah, stop it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C#] _ [Bm] _ I'm [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ gonna start a child, so put more than one on me.
_ You're gonna arrive too late 45, put your hips in 53. _
[C#m] _ _ [F#] You got what it takes, eat my heads and smell them, down by the old red shack.
_ [C#m] You come on just like a fool, drilling in the back of a red Cadillac. _
_ [G#] You can't come across the Oxford Bridge [F#] until you pay the toll. _
[C#m] So don't try to lay no boogey-woogey on the king of rock and roll.
_ Ah, [C#] stop it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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