Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven (1956)
Key: :[C#] (w: Chuck Berry)
INTRO: [over VERSE]
VERSE 1:
I'm gonna
[C#] write a little letter, gonna
[F#] mail it to my local D.J.
[C#]
It's a
[F#] jumpin' little record I want my jockey to
[C#] play
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again to-
[C#]-day
VERSE 2:
You know, my
[C#] temperature's risin' and the
[F#] jukebox blows a
[C#] fuse
My
[F#] heart's beatin' rhythm and my soul keeps on singin' the
[C#] blues
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven and tell Tschaikowsky the
[C#] news
VERSE 3:
I got the
[C#] rockin' pneumonia, I
[F#] need a shot of rhythm and
[C#] blues
I
[F#] caught the rollin' off a writer, sittin' down by the rhythm re-
[C#]-view
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven rockin' in two by
[C#] two
BRIDGE:
[C#] Well, if you feel you like it, go get your lover, then reel and rock it, roll it over
Then
[F#] move on up just a trifle further and
[C#] reel and rock with one another
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and
[C#] blues
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 4:
Well,
[C#] early in the mornin' I'm a-
[F#]-givin' you a warnin'
Don't you
[C#] step on my blue suede shoes
[F#] Hey diddle diddle, I am playin' my fiddle,
[C#] ain't got nothin' to lose
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven and tell Tschaikowsky the
[C#] news
VERSE 5:
You know she
[C#] wiggles like a glow worm,
[F#] dance like a spinnin'
[C#] top
She got a
[F#] crazy partner, oughta see 'em reel and
[C#] rock
Long as
[G#] she got a dime the music will never
[C#] stop
OUTRO:
[C#] Roll Over Beethoven, Roll Over Beethoven
Roll Over Beet-
[F#]-hoven, Roll Over Beet-
[C#]-hoven
Roll
[G#] Over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and
[C#] blues
[C#9 open] 