The Trouble With The Fifties Chords by Lonnie Donegan

[Ab] _ Lonnie, what about your shows?
What was the atmosphere like there?
Well, I must pick up on this word that for the first time is used today,
and it's the most important word when you're talking about the 50s, fun.
It was a totally different world than what it is today.
In those days, the kids had fun.
We went out for fun.
We didn't go out to punch anybody in the eye or to make a million pounds.
It just was not in existence.
Now, you were _ one of the biggest stars.
Everyone acknowledges that.
5 foot 5 and a half. _
You had your knuckles wrapped. _ _
But _ big as you were, the BBC did wrap you over the knuckles, didn't they?
Well, the BBC was the big black boss of everything.
[N] Once again, you've illustrated in the paper.
If you want to show business, they will live through the BBC, really. _ _
_ They didn't like what I did, and when I did one particular song,
which I'm sure you're referring to, which was the Battle of New Orleans,
in which was the line, you know,
we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
Well, I mean, that's how it was.
But the BBC shutters came in.
You can't say that.
_ _ And they [G] withdrew the record.
We were forced to withdraw the record from the market,
which in those days was _ unbelievable, fatal.
And we had to reinsert the word ruddy instead of bloody.
That was all right then.
But what you don't know is that I'd already been banned.
Years before that, when I was in the Chris Byle Jazz Band,
and we'd done a song called
Somebody's Digging My Potatoes, Trampling on My Vine,
which was full of double entendres, isn't it?
They could spell that.
I don't think I can listen to any more of that.
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_ _ _ _ Young people behind us now,
who weren't even born when all this started.
So why are you so besotted by the 50s?
Well, it's the best decade of the century, basically.
_ Britain, during the war, was miserable.
People were depressed.
With the 50s, you had a rebirth of British culture.
You had the music, the clothes, _ even the furniture.
Of course, the singers, the big bands.
Not just rock and roll, but all the music.
_ There was a new youth culture,
_ and we're hopefully carrying on with it today,
because it won't die for me, ever.
Ever.
Such discernment and taste.
It's wonderful. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ All this sort of music has made my varicose veins throb with anticipation.
So we're going to end our whistle-stop tour of the decade
with some of the best kind of music from those days,
from the 50s.
Good night.
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Eighteen [D] ports, we took a little trip
[E] Along Wakanda, back from Kona, [A] Marnham
Took a little [D] bacon, and we took a little feast
And [E] we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
[A] Over by London, where it gets fun
There was not many in the world upon the go
But I was born in King's Row
From the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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_ _ Great train, freight train, going so [A] fast
Great train, [D] freight train, going so fast
[Gb] I don't [G] know what train he's on
[D] Won't you tell me where he's _ gone
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Whoooooooooooooooo Whooooooooooooo
Gumballin' был, _ _ gingire muzyków
_ Gumballin' był, _ [B] gingire muzyków
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I'm going to get, I'm going to get 15 miles in a car.
I'm going to get, I'm going to get 15 [B] miles in a car.
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_ I don't know.
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_ _ _ Woo-hoo! _ _
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things, gorgeous churches,
and [A] seated boys,
_ laughs and screams and gigs,
every [Eb] little [D] noise,
_ turns the face a little,
_ turns the [G] face a while,
but [A] _
everybody knows
he's only putting on the [G] style.
Oh, [D] putting on the agony,
putting [A] on the style.
That's what all the young boys _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
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I come [G] _
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_ _ _ Next _ _ _
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Saturday at 10 [B].20,
you can see the first of a new series of Aspell and Company.
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