The Story Of Bo Diddley Chords by The Animals

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_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ Now _
_ _ _ [G] _ let's hear the story of Bo Diddley, _ the rock and roll senior general. _
_ _ 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.
_ _ He practiced the guitar _ every day and sometimes in the night, _ _ until his papa's hair began to turn white.
_ _ His pa said, son, listen here, I know you can stay, but that guitar's just gotten old.
_ _ 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 York City.
_ _ _ _ He began to breathe the following of all, _ good senior, _ everybody ready.
_ _ One day, _ _ _ one night, _ came a Cadillac, _ four headlights.
_ _ Came a man with a big long fat cigar, he said, come here son, I'm gonna make you a star.
_ _ Bo Diddley said, _ uh, what's in it for me?
_ The man said, shut your mouth son, play your guitar, you just wait and see.
_ Well, Bo made it, he made it real big. _
And so did the rest of the rock and roll scene along with him. _
And a white guy called Johnny Otis, from Bo Diddley's rhythm, he changed it into hand jive, and it went like this. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ In a little old country town one day, _ _ a little old country man [C] began to play.
_ [F] Had two guitars and a beat of [Bb] six o'clock.
_ [C] When the drummer said, what are those cats be [F] givin' _ you?
[Bb] They said, boo wee, oh oh, _ _ [C] ooh la la, that [F] rockin'.
You [Bb] hear me, boo wee, [F] oh oh, _ _ [G] ooh la la, that rockin'. _ _ _
[Cm] In the [F] US music scene, [Cm] there was big changes made.
[Cm] _
Due to [F] [Cm] circumstances beyond our [F] control. _
[Cm] Such as [F] payola.
_ [Cm] The [F] rock and roll [Cm] scene died after two [F] years of solid [G] rock.
_ You got discs like, uh, _ _ _ _ take good care of my baby.
_ _ Please don't ever make her blue.
_ And so forth. _
[Cm] _ _ [F] _ [G] One year later, _ in a place called Liverpool in England, _ four young guys with mop haircuts began to sing stuff like, uh,
_ _ _ [Cm] It's [F] been a [G]
hard day's night, [Cm] and [F] I've been [Cm] workin' like [G] a dog.
And [F] so on.
[Cm] _
A place [F] called Richmond in [Cm] Surrey, _ [F] way down in the deep south.
[G] _ I got guys that have long hair down the back singin',
I wanna be your lover, baby, wanna be your man, yeah.
_ And all that jazz. _
Well, we been doin' this number of Bo Diddley for quite some time now.
_ _ Bo Diddley visited this country _ _ last year.
_ And we were playin' the Club O'Go-Go in _ Newcastle, [Cm] our hometown.
[F] _ [C] _
And the doors [G] opened one night, and to our surprise, _ walked in the man himself, Bo Diddley. _
Along with him was [Cm] Jerome Green, his [G] maraca man, _ and the Duchess, his gorgeous sister. _ _
Now, we doin' _ this number, along with them came the Rolling Stones, _ [Cm] the Merseybeats,
[F] they all [Cm] standin' around diggin' it.
[G] And I overheard Bo Diddley _ talkin'.
He turned around to Jerome Green, he said,
_ Hey, Jerome, _ _ what do you think of these guys doin' our material? _ _ _
Jerome said,
Uh, where's the ball, man? _
Please show me to the ball.
He turned around to Duchess, and he said,
Hey, Duchess, what do you think of these young guys doin' our material?
She said,
Come _ _ _ across here to see the changin' of the gods and all that, yeah.
_ Well, Bo Diddley looked up at me, and he said,
_ With half-closed eyes and a smile, _ he said, Man,
_ _ He took off his glasses,
_ He said,
Man, [C] _
that sure is [Cm] the biggest load of rubbish [G] I ever heard in my life.
_ _ _ _ Oh, [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
do the [Eb] devil, do [F] the _ [F] devil, do the [Eb] devil, [F] do _ _ _ the devil, _ do the [Eb] devil, [F] do the