Chords for Chuck Berry Interview on The Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson..1987

[Bm] and then he got a little smoky in the slave 60s.
Yeah, and I didn't want any parts of it.
Yeah, I understand.
Doug, I got to ask you a question.
See if you remember.
_ What was the first year that you did the Dick Clark show?
Do you remember?
Do you have any idea?
It was _ 18_
Do _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ you remember?
[Dm] The year?
I think it was 56.
[B] _ _ _ Okay, [D] now_
Absolutely, see, you won't [Bm] remember this.
I didn't remember it until today.
A [B] few months ago, Dick Clark dropped a picture off at my office.
I was sitting in a set of drums. _ _
[Bm] Now, is this starting to make sense?
Yes, yes, yes.
And I was saying to Freddie, the chord of it, I says,
you know, [E] that's strange.
So I did a little research.
I'm sitting in a set of drums,
and [Bm] Dick Clark sent this picture of both of us talking.
_ _ [B] Dick Clark said, who are these two young guys?
Clark looked exactly the same today as he did then.
_ I was on his show, and I introduced_
_ I played a little drum solo,
and he came over and said,
Johnny, I understand you're going to introduce
somebody [Bm] in American dance.
And I said, yes, sir.
And who did [C] I introduce?
He said, yours truly.
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[Bb] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] Yeah, I was a little scored, he said.
[E] I was hardly nationally known,
but Dick and [B] I get people who've been on national television
to introduce new people. _
This kept going through my [Bm] mind, and sure enough_ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [B] Ten bars.
Do you want it easier?
_ _ _ Great.
Ten bars.
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_ [B] You know, you're through in the [Db] business
when you do that and you can't get up.
You gotta bring _ [D] it in.
Yeah.
_ [Bm] _ _ Yeah, really good.
_ _ _ Somebody told me you [B] usually, when you perform,
_ insist on getting paid _ cash up front.
Well, not cash, but things as good as cash.
Like cash is check. _ _ _ _
Well, I'll tell you what, I had a lot of albums
waiting two [Bm] and a half hours for them to count monies,
and then they make mistakes.
So up front, and then a lot of people,
a lot of the promoters add taxes from the government.
Then they're supposed to, so up front is [E] better.
I know a lot of people who [Bm] go on tour
but have that same problem.
You [E] go in and it [Bm] takes them a while before they get off. _ _
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_ I have, [B] Johnny.
_ In fact, [Bm] one time, and even John Lennon said
he had the same thing happen to him one time
in Mineola, Mississippi.
I drove down there with a big bus,
had a lot of overhead [E] with the band.
[Bm] Yeah, that was big band.
_ _ And we played a New Year's Eve thing.
And at 12, we played from [B] 9 to [Bm] 12.
Or rather from 8 to 12, four hours, union thing.
At 12, I told them one,
I made sure I gave them a good four hours.
I quit.
_ _ _ Shotgun.
_ Play until 1230.
[D] The party's still going [Bm] on. _
Mississippi, you played at 1230. Yeah. _ _ _ _
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_ Here, here, I'll tell you.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Sing like Nat Cole, with [Bm] lyrics like Louis [G]
Jordan,
with [B] the swing of Benny [Bm] Goodman,
with _ _ _ _ Charlie Christian on [D] guitar,
playing Carl [B] Hogan's riffs, who was _ _ Louis Jordan.
And [E] with the soul of [Bb] Muddy Waters,
[B] oh, I hated all these [E] things.
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Yeah.
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_ _ [Bm] _ [D] Houdini, you know. _ _
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