Chords for Chuck Berry Plays Sweet Little Sixteen and Johnny B. Goode - Rare Concert Footage

_ _ _ When people [N] see how smoothly this show proceeds, they often wonder about the split-second timing that must go on backstage.
Why, we get one or two letters a year asking to see some of that split-second backstage timing.
So I thought I'd tell you about some of it.
For instance, recently [Bb] we had Chuck Berry drop by.
And when you have a name that great, you give him what he wants.
Now Chuck Berry came expecting to find someone at the door with a band and a guitar of his own special choosing.
_ _ _ Our producer met him at the door, _ without the band and with the wrong guitar.
_ Fortunately for us, Chuck Berry is very patient.
And in the audience that night were David Brown, he's a bass guitarist from Santana, and a couple of other_ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Bossa, beat [F] for me, yeah.
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ Even if I go head on in F, you go on in B flat.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ They're really rockin' in Bossa. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Hey, what's up? _ _ _
_ Give me a_ _ _ _
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_ _ He thought we were playing alley-oop that time, okay.
_ _ _ _ _ They're really rockin' in Bossa.
_ _ _ A [Eb] Pittsburgh, D.A.
_ _ Deep in the [Bb] heart of Texas.
_ _ At Rama [Eb] Pistovi.
_ _ _ _ All [Ab] over St.
Louis.
_ _ [Fm] Way down in New [Eb]
Orleans.
_ _ _ Everybody [Bb] wants to dance _ with_
Sweet [Eb] Little Things.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Sweet Little Things.
Sweet Little Things.
_ _ You just [Eb] got to have_
_ _ _ [Bb] About a half a _ _ million_
Painted [Eb] _ _
_ autographs.
While they're [Ab] filled with pictures.
_ You get to one by [Eb] _ _
one_
_ [Bb] Become so excited.
_ _ _ Watch her [Bm] look at her arms, oh.
_ [Eb] Oh, mommy, mommy.
_ _ Please, may I go? _
_ _ Just to [Bb] decide to see_
_ _ Somebody do a [Eb] show. _
[Bb] _ Oh, daddy, daddy. _
_ I beg of you. _ _
_ _ _ Whisper to mommy. _
_ It's all right [Eb] with you. _ _
Cause [Bb] they be rockin' on Main. _ _
A Philadelphia, [Eb] _ Pierre. _ _
Deep in [Bb] the heart of Texas. _ _ _
At Rama _ [Eb] Pistovi. _ _ _
All over St.
Louis.
Way _ _ down in New Orleans. _ _ _
Everybody [Bb] wants to dance with_
Sweet [Eb] Little Things.
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_ Sweet Little Things. _ _ _ _
Got the grown [Eb] up blues. _ _ _
[Bb] Many skirts and lipstick. _ _ _
_ Sometimes don't [Eb] wear shoes. _ _
[Bb] Oh, but [Ab] tomorrow _ morning_ _
[Bb] You'll have to [Eb] change your train. _ _ _
[Bb] And be sweet 16. _ _ _
Go back to class [Eb] again. _ _ _
[Bb] Cause they be rockin' _ _ _ on_
Philadelphia, [Eb] Pierre. _ _ _
_ Deep in the [A] heart of [Bb] Texas. _
_ At Rama Pistovi.
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_ All over St.
Louis. _
_ Way down in New Orleans. _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Everybody wants to dance with_
Sweet Little [Eb] Things. _ _ _
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Sweet Little Things. _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] Deep down in Louisiana.
Across the New Orleans.
Way back up in the woods up in the Evergreens.
[F] Stood a long cabin made of earth and wood.
[C] Where lived a country boy named Johnny B.
[Gm] Goode.
Who never ever learned to read or write well.
But he [Cm] could play a guitar and do like a [Bb] reggae.
Go, [C] go. _
Go, Johnny, go.
Go, _ _ _ Johnny.
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_ _ [Cm] Say, go, Johnny, go. _
_ _ _ [G] _ Go, go, go.
Johnny [C] B.
Goode. _ _
[G] _ _ [C] He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack.
Go sit beneath the tree by the gunny sack.
[F] Old engineer would see him spittin' in the shade.
[C] Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made.
[G] When people passed him by they would stop and say.
[Cm] Oh my, but that little country boy could play.
Go, go. _ _
Go, Johnny, go.
_ _ _ Go, Johnny, go.
Go, [G] _ _ _
Johnny, go.
[Cm] _ Go, _ _ Johnny, [G] go.
Go, go, go.
Johnny [C] B.
Goode. _ _
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[G] _ _ [Gm] His mother told him someday you will be a man.
You will be the leader of [Bb] a big old band.
[G] Many people comin' from miles around.
[Cm] To hear you play your music when the sun goes down.
[G] Maybe someday your name will be back in line.
[C] Say, Johnny B.
Goode.
Go, go.
Go, Johnny, go. _
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[G] Johnny B.
Goode. _ _
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