The Story of BO DIDDLEY - Eric Burdon & The Animals (incl. lyrics) Chords

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_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] Now _
_ _ _ [F] _ let's hear the story of Bo Diddley, _ [Eb] the rock and [Am] roll senior general.
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_ _ Bo Diddley was born _ Ellis McDaniels in a place called Magoon, _ Mississippi about 1926. _ _ _
He moved to Chicago about 1938, _ _ where his name was eventually changed to Bo Diddley.
[F] _ _ [Am] He practiced the guitar _ every [Eb] day and _ sometimes a little [Am] night, _ _ until his papa's hair began to turn white.
_ His pa said, [Eb] son, [F]
listen here, I know [Eb] _ [Am] you can stay, but that guitar's just [Eb] gotten old.
[A] _ _ _ _
He pulled his hat down over his eyes and headed on out for the western skies.
I think Bob Dylan said that.
He hit New [F] York City.
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ He began to breathe the following [Eb] holler.
[C] [F] Good scene there.
[Eb] _ [F]
Everybody read.
_ [Eb] _ [Am] _ One day, _ _ _ one night, _ came a Cadillac, _ four [F] headlights.
_ [Am] _
Came a man with a big long fat cigar.
He said, come here, son, I'm gonna make you a star.
_ Bo [F] Diddley said, _ uh, what's in it for me?
_ [Eb] The man said, [F] shut your mouth, son, play your guitar [A] and you just wait and see.
_ _ Well, Bo made it.
He made it real big. _
[F] And so did [Am] the rest of the rock and roll scene along with [Am] him. _
_ White guy called Johnny [Fm] Otis [Bb] took [Am] Bo Diddley's rhythm.
He changed it into hand [F] jive and it went like this.
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In a little old country town one day, _ a little old country band [C] began to play.
_ [F] Had two guitars and a beat of [Bb] 604.
_ [C] When the drummer said, whoa, those cats be [F] gettin' loose.
_ [Bb] They said, ooh wee, [F] whoa, whoa, _ _ [C]
ooh, I love that [F] rockin'.
[Bb] You hear me?
Ooh wee, [F] whoa, whoa, _ _ [C]
ooh, la la, [F] that rockin'.
[Cm] _ _ [F] _
_ [Cm] In the U [F].S. music scene, [Cm] there was big changes [F] made.
[Cm] _ Due to [F] circumstances beyond our control, _ [Cm] such as [F] payola,
_ [Cm] the [F] rock and roll [Cm] scene died after two [F] years of solid rock.
[Cm] _ _ [F]
You got [Cm] discs like, [F] uh, _ [Cm] _ _ [F]
take [Cm] good care of [F] my baby.
[Cm] _ _ [F]
Please don't ever make her blue, [Cm] and so [F] forth.
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ [Cm] One year [F] later, in a place called Liverpool in [Cm] England,
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four [Cm] young guys with mop [F] haircuts _ [Cm] began to [F] sing stuff like,
[Cm] _ [F] it's _ [Cm] _ [F] been a [Cm] hard [F] day's night, [Cm] and [F] I've been _ [Cm] workin' like [F] a dog, and so on.
[Cm] A [F] place called Richmond [Cm] in Surrey, _ [F] _
[Cm] way down in the deep [F] south,
_ [C] got guys [F] that had long hair [Cm] down their back [F] singin',
I wanna [Cm] be your lover, [F] baby, I wanna [Cm] be your man, [F] yeah.
_ [Cm] And all [F] that jazz.
[Cm] _ [F] Well, we been doin' [Cm] this number of Bo Diddley [F] for quite some time [Cm] now.
_ [F] _ [Cm] Bo Diddley visited this [F] country _ [Cm] last [F] year.
_ [Cm] We [F] were playin' the Club O'Go [Cm]-Go in Newcastle, [F] _ _ [Cm] our [F] hometown.
_ [Gm] And the [F] doors opened one night, [Cm] and to our [F] surprise,
[Cm] _ [F] walked in the man [Cm] himself, Bo Diddley.
[F] _ [Cm] Along [F] with him was [Cm] Jerome Green, his maraca man,
and [F] the Duchess, [Cm] his gorgeous [F] sister.
_ [Cm] _ [F] Now, we doin' this [Cm] _ _ [F] _
[Cm] number, along [F] with them came Rolling [Cm] Stones,
[F] _
[Cm] the [F] Merseybeats, they all [Cm] standin' around diggin' it.
[F]
And [Cm] I overheard Bo Diddley _ talkin'.
He turned around to Jerome Green, he said,
_ _ [F] Hey, [Cm] Jerome, _ [F]
[Cm] what do you think of these guys doin' [F] our [Cm] material?
_ [F] _
[Cm] _ Jerome [F] said, Uh, where's the ball, man?
_ Please show me to the ball.
[Cm] He turned [F] around to Duchess and he said,
Hey, Duchess, what do [Cm] you think of these [Fm] young guys doin' our material?
[Ab] She said, Uh, I don't know. _
Across the air to see the [F] changin' of the gods and all that jazz. _
[Cm] Bo Diddley looked [Gm] up at me and he said,
_ With half-closed eyes and a [Ab] smile,
_ [F] He said, Man,
[G] _ _
[Cm] He took off his [F] glasses.
[Cm] He said, [G] Man,
[A] _ That sure is a [F] big ass load of rubbish.
[Cm] I've ever heard in [F] my [Cm] life.
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