Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues (Guitar Acoustic)
Capo 2
Key
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Speed:
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Chords
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Written by: Cochran/Capeheart
Originally a non-album single (1958), after Cochran's death included on
"The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album" (1960)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
capo: 2nd fret
play: D
key: E
For chords in original key transpose +2
On the studio recording the idiosyncratic chord riff is played on
an acoustic guitar. It is played in D-shapes but the key is E major,
so probably a capo 2nd fret is used.
Chords in [ brackets ]: no chords, just bass guitar; suggestion: hit the
chord on the 1 there but then mute the strings with your left hand
and strum with your right to create a “rhythm track”.
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RIFF
D G A D D G A D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|
B|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|
G|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|
D|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|
A|----------------|--0-0-0---------|----------------|--0-0-0---------|
E|--------3-------|----------------|--------3-------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
| [ D ] | % | D G | A D | D G | A D | (bass only) (RIFF) (RIFF) [Verse 1] [ D ] A-I'm a-gonna raise a fuss [ D ] I'm a-gonna raise a holler | D G | A D | (RIFF) [ D ] About a-workin' all summer [ D ] Just to try to earn a dollar | D G | A D | (RIFF) G Ev'ry time I call my baby G Try to get a date D My boss says, "No dice son, you gotta work late"
(break)
G Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do D | [ D ] | % | But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Interlude]
| D G | A D | D G | A D | (RIFF) (RIFF) [Verse 2] [ D ] A-well my mom and pop a-told me [ D ] Son you gotta make some money | D G | A D | (RIFF) [ D ] A-if you wanna use the car [ D ] To go a-ridin' next Sunday | D G | A D | (RIFF) G A-well I didn't go to work G Told the boss I was sick D D D D "Now you can't use the car, cause you didn't work a lick"
(break)
G Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do D | [ D ] | % | But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Interlude]
| D G | A D | D G | A D | (RIFF) (RIFF)
[Verse 3]
[ D ] I gonna take two weeks [ D ] Gonna have a fine vacation | D G | A D | (RIFF) [ D ] I'm gonna take my problem [ D ] To the United Nations | D G | A D | (RIFF) G Well, I called my congressman G And he said, quote: D D D D "I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote"
(break)
G Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do D | [ D ] | % | But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Outro]
| D G | A D | D G | A D | (RIFF) (RIFF) | D G | A D | D G | A D | (RIFF) (RIFF) | D G | A D (RIFF)