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 know, I remember _
[C] a [Bb] _ [C] few years ago, _ [G] some funny things used to happen to me.
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About 1956, 57, _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ at that time there was no blues scene or _ not really any kind of scene in [F] London.
_ _ _ I used to go out [C] and play my guitar in the streets [G] and _ sing [F] things, _ with [C] a pass on 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 police.
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[F] This police _ [C] came up and [Ab] _
dragged me and [G] my guitar [C] and my hat full of pennies [F] _ off to the police station.
[C] _ _ Anyway, the next day I had to appear [Ab] in Marlborough Street [F] Police Court, _ _ [C] _ _ _
and _ it [G] was quite a day.
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] Police officer [G] giving his [Gm] evidence, _ [C] _ [G] I was [C] proceeding in a summerly direction, me lord, _
_ _ _ [F] when I heard _ _ strange sounds coming from [C] a war-torn place, me [G] lord.
A sort of boogey-woogey music was [C] being played. _
_ [Gm] On further [C] investigation, _ _ _ _ I saw the defendant _ standing there _ with [F] a guitar _ and an [Fm] old hat
on the [C] floor, _ collecting pennies.
_ _ [G] Well, I decided that [F] he was contravening a breach of the [C] peace there, _
_ [Gm] _ _ as [C] there was a
traffic jam about five miles long down Waldo Street.
I'm wondering what all the _ fuss was [Fm] about. _ _
So then I arrested [Dm] the _ [C] defendant. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Just one moment, officer. _
[F] _ _ [Gm] What is [C] 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 rhythm [C] music peculiar to the American Negro.
_ Oh, [Gm] _ _
[F] what was the defendant doing _ [C] playing this kind of music there [G] in Waldo Street?
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Anyway, _ _ I got off with a caution.
_ _ [F] A year's conditional discharge, _ but I'll always remember [C] that policeman and his boogey-woogey.
[G] So don't try to lay no [F] boogey [Fm]-woogey on the [G] king of rock and _ _ roll. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ [C] Don't tell me none of no [Bb] lies, woman, [C] cause all [Bb] you know I told [Cm] her.
[C] I don't [Gm] send you no alibis, sister, [C] cause all you got I sold her.
_ [F] You better leave at midnight or sneak into the wild and wait it [Eb] out. _
[C] I don't want to hear no black talk.
[Bb] I'm speaking to [Cm] no one.
Shut your _ [Bb] mouth.
[G] And everything is going to work out tight [Dm] if you [F] act like you've been [Eb] told.
Just don't try to lay no [G] boogey-woogey on [Gm] the king of rock and roll.
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Don't feed me no TV [Bb] dubs [C] when you know that [Cm] I'm yours to [Bb] snake.
_ [C] _ I don't need no rank [Bb] beginners [C] when the time will shake me [Cm] shake.
_ _ _ [F] You better pull your thing [Eb] together [F] with your men and bust it [Eb] out.
_ [C] And if you feel that you [Bb] just can't dig it, [C] you know you don't [Cm] know what it's all [Bb] about.
_ [G] It ain't a matter of power or convenience that's gonna [F] justify your soul.
Just don't try to lay [G] no boogey-woogey on [Gm] the king of rock and roll.
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Don't [Eb] try to lay no boogey-woogey [Dm] on the king of rock and [G] roll.
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You weren't alive [Cm] when I started [Bb] trying, [C] so before the men on me, [Bb] _ [C] you didn't arrive.
Till late [Bb] 45, put [C] your heads in 53.
_ [Cm] _ You got what it takes to keep your heads a-spinning [F] down by the old red shack.
_ _ [C] You come on just like a [Bb] fool, grinning [C] in the back of a red Cadillac.
[Eb] _ _ [G] You can't come across the Asheville Bridge [F] until you pay the [Dm] toll.
So don't try [Eb] to lay [Bb] no boogey-woogey on the king of rock [G] and roll.
Ah, son.
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