Chords for Birth Of Rock And Roll - Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash -

_ Well, Nashville had country music, _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ but Memphis had the soul. _ _ _ _ _
Lord, the white boy had the rhythm, _ _ and that started rock and roll.
And [D] I was there when it happened.
_ Don't y'all think I [A] ought to know?
_ Yeah, yeah, yeah.
_ [E] I was there when it happened.
[D] I watched [C] Memphis defer [A] to rock and roll.
_ Lord, Lord, yeah.
_ [Am] Well, the captain named Elvin D.
bopped into the sun right off the street.
[A] Said he's blue moon of [F] OKY, but he did it with a [G] brand new beat.
[A] Guess he caught him [Eb] a-sleepin' whirlin' out there by [B] surprise.
He picked him up, he rang him out, and [A] he hung him out to dry.
I [D] was there when it happened.
_ Don't y'all [A] think I ought to know?
_ Lord, Lord, yeah.
[E] I was there when it happened.
[D] I watched Memphis [C] defer to [A] rock and roll.
_ This kind of way it [Em] happened.
[A] Well, the cumber [G]-bob of the beatin' old drums was rockin' and it going wild.
[A] These little pickers were clickin' and clackin' [G] but doin' it in a different style.
[B] In-car strummin' and beat-pumpin' and the lead [G] man pickin' out the blues.
[A] The pickers and you [F] were swingin' and swingin' [A] playin' some bad blues.
Grace, you and [D] I was there when it happened.
_ Lord, don't think I ought [A] to _ know?
Yeah, yeah.
Folks, [E] I was there when it happened.
I watched [C] Memphis defer to rock and [A] roll.
[D] _ [A] What you think about it, little guitar?
Come on, boy. _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ [Am] Some folks called it the devil's music.
Others [G] said it wouldn't last long.
[A] [E] Thirty-one years since we started shakin' through, somebody was wrong.
[A] The six of the [G] four, the beaters and the four, was the rock and roll best friend.
[A] The beaters and the stones took the old beat home and the world went crazy again.
[D] Grace, you and I was there when it happened.
My friend, I think I [A] ought to know?
_ _ Yeah, yeah.
Well, I [E] was there when it happened.
[D] I watched [C] Memphis defer to [A] rock and roll.
_ Lord, yeah.
[E] Come [A] on. _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Give me some Sienna, little Memphis. _ _ _ _ _
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Come on, now. Yeah. _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] Yeah.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ I like [A] Memphis. _ _ _ _ _
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I don't want to sit here and talk. _ _ _ _ _
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