Chuck Berry – Rock Cradle Rock (Guitar)

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As recorded by Chuck Berry (From the 1968 Album ST. LOUIE TO FRISCO) [Intro] C N.C. C N.C. C [Verse 1]
C
I was born under the sign of Libra

C
October, eighteen, seven o'clock

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I must have had it bad, because in the cradle I had

          G N.C.                            C
My mother said, before noon I was trying to rock

C
My mother said, before noon I was trying to rock
[Verse 2]
C
For years I tried to make A grades

C
To satisfy my Mom and Pop

                          F
In music I'm boss, but in Math, I was lost

           G N.C.                       C
I guess my head was full of nothing but rock

C
I guess my head was full of nothing but rock
[Guitar Solo] C7 F7 G7 C7 F7 C7 [Verse 3]
C
Hear they're swinging the Fox Trot at the hotel

C
Hear the country picking around the clock

                           F
Pick up some sounds of the jazz around

           G N.C.                     C
But if you dig what you hear, you dig rock

C
But if you dig what you hear, you dig rock
[Verse 4]
C
The thing I'm going to tell my dick jock

C
So he can sock it to me around the clock

                             F
Spend an hour of Bach in his original rock

           G N.C.                         C
And if you dig what he's playing, you dig rock

           F                              C
And if you dig what he's playing, you dig rock