Eddie Cochran, Summertime Blues (1958)
Key: :[F] (w: Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart)
INTRO: [F] [A#] [C] [F] :
[x2]
VERSE 1:
Well I'm a gonna raise a fuss
I'm a-gonna raise a holler
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
About a-workin' all summer
just a-trying to earn a dollar
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
CHORUS 1:
Every-
[A#]-time I call my baby, try to get a date
The
[F open] boss says "No dice son you gotta work a-late"
[A#] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there
[F open] ain't no cure for the summertime blues
BREAK: [F] [A#] [C] [F] :
[x2]
VERSE 2:
Well my Mom and Pappa told me
"Son you gotta earn some money
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
If you wanna use the car
to go a riding next Sunday"
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
CHORUS 2:
Well I
[A#] didn't got to work, told the boss I was sick
"Now you
[F open] can't use the car, cause you didn't work a late"
[A#] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there
[F open] ain't no cure, for the summertime blues
BREAK: [F] [A#] [C] [F] :
[x2]
VERSE 3:
I'm gonna take two weeks
gonna have a fun vacation
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
I'm gonna take my problem
to the United Nations
[F] [A#] [C] [F]
CHORUS 3:
Well I
[A#] told my congressman, and he said, quote
"I'd
[F open] like to help you son but you're too young to vote"
[A#] Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
But there
[F open] ain't no cure for the summertime blues
BREAK: [F] [A#] [C] [F] :
[x2]
OPTIONAL OUTRO:
I said there
[F] ain't no
[A#] cure
for the
[C] summertime
[F] blues
[F] [A#] [C] [F] 