Chords for Long John Baldry - "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King of Rock & Roll"

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[F] You _ [Bb] _ [Am] know, I remember [Bb]
[C] a _ few years ago, _ [Dm]
[G] some funny things used to happen to [Cm] me.
[Dm] _ [F] _ [C] About 1956, 57, _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [C] _
_ _ at that time there was no blues scene or _ not really any kind of scene in [F] London.
_ _ _ [Bb] [F] I used to go out [C] and play my guitar in the streets and [G] _
sing [E] [F] things, _ [C] with a pass and a hat around.
I remember one particular night, _ _ I was _ playing my guitar in a little alleyway just off of
[F] Waldo Street in Soho, _ _ _ and [G] _ [C] I got busted by the police.
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[F] As police _ [C] came up, _ [Am] _ [Ab]
[G] 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, _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _
and _ [G] it was quite a day.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] Police officer [Gm] giving his evidence.
_ [C] _ I was proceeding in a summerly direction, me lord, _
_ _ _ [F] when I heard _ _ strange [G] sounds [C] coming
from a walled-off place, me [G] lord.
_ A [E] sort of [F] boogey [G]-woogey [C] music was being played. _
[G] _ On further [C] investigation, _ _ _ _ I saw the defendant _ standing there with [F] a guitar _ [Bb]
and [F] an [Fm] old hat
on [C] the floor, _ collecting pennies.
_ [G] _ Well, I decided that [F] he was [Gm] contravening a [C] breach of the peace there, _
[G] _ _ _ [C] as there was a
traffic jam about five miles long down Waldo Street.
I wondered what all the _ fuss was [F] about. _ _
So then I arrested the _ [C] defendant. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Just one moment, officer. _
[F] _ _ [D] What [C] is this boogey-woogey music [Gm] you were talking about?
[C] _ Oh, well, me lord, _ _ said the officer getting out his notebook, obviously been doing up his homework.
Well, [F] _ it's a kind of _ jazz [Dm] rhythm [C] music peculiar to the American Negro.
_ [G] Oh, _ _ [F] what was the defendant doing _ [C] playing this kind of music there [G] in Waldo [C] Street? _ _ _
_ Anyway, _ I got off with a caution.
_ _ A [F] year's conditional discharge, _ but I'll always [C] remember that policeman and his [E] boogey [G]-woogey.
So don't try to lay no [F] boogey [Fm]-woogey on the [G] king of rock and _ roll. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Don't _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ [C] tell me nothing, no lies, woman, cause all you know I told her.
_ Don't sell me no alibi, sister, cause all you got I sold her.
_ [F] You better leave at midnight, or sneak into the wild, or we'll wake you up.
[C] Don't _ wanna hear no backtalk, I'm speaking to you, so I'll shut [Cm] your mouth. _
[G] _ Everything is gonna work out tight [F] if you act like you've [Fm] been told. _ _
[Cm] Don't try [Fm] to lay [Ebm] no [Cm] boogey-woogey on the king of [Ab] rock [Bb] and [C] roll. _
Don't feed me no TV dust, when you know that I'm using snake.
_ I don't need [Cm] no rank [C] [F] beginners [C] when the time is shake [Cm]-me-shake.
_ _ [F] You better pull your thing together, or we'll chill and dust it out.
_ [Gm] [C] And if you feel that you just can't dig it, you know [Cm] you don't know what it's all about.
_ [G] It ain't a matter of parking [F] fees, that's gonna justify your [Ab] soul.
[Cm] Just don't try to lay no boogey-woogey on the [Bb] king of rock and [Gm] roll.
_ I'm not a song. _ _ _
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[C] [Bb] Don't try [Cm] to lay no boogey-woogey on the king of rock and roll. _
You weren't a right little son of a child, so don't pour the ring on [C] me.
_ You didn't arrive till late 45, with your hips in 53.
_ [Cm] _ You [F] got what it takes [C] to keep me [F] head so spinning, down by the old red shack.
_ [C] But you [Cm] come off just like a pool of grinning, in the back of a red _ Cadillac.
_ [G] You can't come across the Asheville Bridge, [F] until you pay the [D] toll.
_ [Cm] So don't try to lay no boogey-woogey on the king of rock and [A] roll.
_ [C] I'm not a song. _ _ _
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