Chuck Berry
Johnny B Goode			Guitar		Bass		Drum		Keyboard	Lyrics
Maybellne			Guitar		Bass		Drum		Keyboard	Lyrics
Riding Along In My Automobile	Guitar		Bass		Drum		Keyboard	Lyrics
Roll Over Beethoven		Guitar		Bass		Drum		Keyboard	Lyrics
You Can Never Tell		Guitar		Bass		Drum		Keyboard	Lyrics
 
Johnny B Goode
 
Keyboard Tabs 
Tabbed by: Jacob LaMay 
 
converted the best I can from guitar tabs, so it's a little sloppy, but
readable.  I don't have the song to listen too so I wasn't able to get the
octaves, but here's what I have. Feel welcome to finish it up...
 
 
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FIRST BREAK:
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Lyrics

 

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy named of Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar like ringing a bell.

(Chorus)

Go Go
Go Johnny Go
Go Go
Johnny B. Goode
He use to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Or sit beneath the trees by the railroad track.
Oh, the engineers used to see him sitting in the shade,
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made.
The People passing by, they would stop and say
Oh my that little country boy could play

(Chorus)

His mother told him someday you will be a man,
And you would be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight.

(Chorus)

Maybellene

 

Lyrics

 

Maybellene, why can't you be true
Oh Maybellene , why can't you be true
You've started back doin' the things you used to do

As I was motivatin over the hill
I saw Mabellene in a Coup de Ville
A Cadillac arollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' about ninetyfive
She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Maybellene

The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It then got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for a passin' lane
The rainwater blowin' all under my hood
I know that I was doin' my motor good
Maybellene

Solo guitar

Maybellene

The motor cooled down the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The Cadillac asittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten half a mile aheadv The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Mabellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene

Solo guitar

Maybellene

Maybellene, why can't you be true
Oh Mabellene , why can't you be true
You've started back doin' the things you used to do

As I was motivatin over the hill
I saw Mabellene in a Coup de Ville
A Cadillac arollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' about ninetyfive
She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Maybellene

The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It then got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for a passin' lane
The rainwater blowin' all under my hood
I know that I was doin' my motor good
Maybellene

Solo guitar

Maybellene

The motor cooled down the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The Cadillac asittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten half a mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene

Solo guitar

Maybellene

 

Riding Along In My Automobile

 

Lyrics

 

Riding along in my automobile

My baby beside me at the wheel

I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile

My curiosity running wild

Cruising and playing the radio

With no particular place to go

 

Riding along in my automobile

I said did you tell her the way I feel

So I told her softly and sincere

And she leaned and whispered in my ear

Cuddling more and driving slow

With no particular place to go

 

No particular place to go

So we parked way out in the Cocomo

The night was young and the moon was gold

So we both decided to take a stroll

Can you imagine the way I felt

I couldn’t unfasten the safety belt

 

Riding along in my Calaboose

Still trying to get her belt unloose

All the way home I held a grudge

For the safety belt that wouldn’t budge

Cruising and playing the radio

With no particular place to go

 

Roll Over Beethoven

 

Lyrics

 

I'm gonna write a little letter,
gonna mail it to my local DJ
It's a rockin' rhythm record
I want my jockey to play
Roll Over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today

You know, my temperature's risin'
and the jukebox blows a fuse
My heart's beatin' rhythm
and my soul keeps on singin' the blues
Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tschaikowsky the news

I got the rockin' pneumonia,
I need a shot of rhythm and blues
I think I'm rollin' arthiritis
sittin' down by the rhythm review
Roll Over Beethoven rockin' in two by two

Well, if you feel you like it
go get your lover, then reel and rock it
Roll it over and move on up just
a trifle further and reel and rock it,
roll it over,
Roll Over Beethoven rockin' in two by two

Well, early in the mornin' I'm a givin' you a warnin'
don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Hey diddle diddle, I am playin' my fiddle,
ain't got nothin' to lose
Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tschaikowsky the news

You know she wiggles like a glow worm,
dance like a spinnin' top
She got a crazy partner,
oughta see 'em reel and rock
Long as she got a dime the music will never stop

Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues

 

You Can Never Tell

 

Lyrics

 

It was a teenage wedding

And the old folks wished them well

You could see that Pierre

Did truly love his mademoiselle

And now the young Monsieur and Madam

Have rung the chapel bell

C’est la vie say the old folks            (what will be will be)

Goes to show you never can tell

 

They furnished off an apartment

With a tune, a

The coolerator was crammed

With TV dinners and ginger ale

But when Pierre found work

The little money come in worked out well

Cest la vie say the old folks

Goes to show you never can tell

 

They had a hi-fi phono

Boy did they let it blast

Seven hundred little records

All rock and rhythm and jazz

But when the sun went down

The record table with the music fell

Say la-vi say the old folks

Goes to show you never can tell

They bought a souped-up Gidney

It was a cherry red ‘53

Drove it down to Orleans

To celebrate there anniversary

It was there where Pierre was

Wedded to the lovely Mademoiselle

C’est la vie say the old folks

Goes to show you never can tell

 

They had a teenage wedding

And the old folks wished them well

You could see that Pierre

Did truly love his mademoiselle

And now the young Monsieur and Madam

Have rung the chapel bell

C’est la vie say the old folks

Goes to show you never can tell

 

 

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