Chuck Berry – Go Go Go (Guitar)

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Composer: C. Berry Label: Pye International Originally released as the B side to "Come On" Reached #38 in 1963 in the UK. Released on the album "Chuck Berry on stage". For younger readers - Ahmad Jamal and Errol Garner were jazz pianists, Stan Kenton a band leader, pianist and composer. Intro: C7 G7 #1:
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Down goes the sun, sitting, ducking on guitar

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Up comes the moon, twinkle, twinkle little star

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One and one is two hitching two, to make it four

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Johnny, get your guitar, let's go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break: F C G F C G7 #2:
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Johnny plays the guitar at the weekly record hop

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He starts to twist and turn and then they wouldn't let him stop

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Girls so shook up, seeing him shaking on the show

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Everybody starts to holler go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo):
F   C    G   F   C    G7
#3

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Duckwalking on his knees, pecking like a hen

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Looking like a locomotive, here he comes again

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Meow said the kitty, puppy, bow, wow, wow

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Go and pick your guitar, Johnny don't stop now, oh baby
Instrumental break:
F   C    G   F   C    G7
#4:

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Backed up by a jazz band, laying on the wood

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Mixin' Ahmad Jamal in my Johnny B Goode

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Sneaking Errol Garner in my Sweet Sixteen

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Now they tell me Stan Kenton's cutting Maybelline, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo): F C G F C G7 #5:
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Papa said to Mama, this I never understood

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How he picks his guitar, make it sound so good

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Used to sound goofy but I guess it's all right

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Papa's taking Mama to the gig tomorrow night, oh baby
Instrumental outro fade: F C G F C G7 C