Chuck Berry – Festival (Guitar)

C
Having a nationwide festival for fourteen days and nights

            G
Ah, there's fifty four bands on a river boat spot in the lights

           C
Hundred of vans and tents all on the banks of the Ohio

F
Bandstands floating from Paducah to Cairo

G                                          C
Be over a million freaks there digging the sights

C
There's so many beautiful people there to love and cheer

            G
Some of the greatest guitar playing in the western hemisphere

        C                                           F
Got the Who, the Band from across the north border, Canned Heat

F
The Fifth Dimension, Creedence Clearwater

G                                                    C
Oh, brother Hendrix, sister Joplin, we wish you were here

C
Early in the morning Johnny Cash and old Elvis got loose

   G
By noon, Vanilla Fudge and the Woolies start paying their dues

    C                                               F
All evening Ike Turner and Aretha right on with the Drifters

F
And the Coasters in the Loading Zone

    G                                                 C
All night Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters in a battling mood

C
Oh, what a beautiful show, was sitting right up under the microphone

            G
Digging the Grateful Dead, Little Richard and the Rolling Stones

    C
Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin and the Everly Brothers

F
Bad Bo Diddley and the Beatles and some others

G                                                    C
Everybody's laying back and freaking out all week long