Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Banned In Boston (Guitar)

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Banned In Boston:Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs. #117 on BB Hot 100 on MGM Records in 1967. INTRO: A#
A#                          F
Owww! Let me get up on this doctored
up thunder-ticket. #1.
    A#
I'm rollin' down the turnpike for a night on
Boston's town, yeah. I didn't please the Boys In Blue with the way I carried on.
    D#
I'm goin' to San Francisco..my reputation's
been made, yeah.
A#
When Boston censored me..I knew I'd made the grade.
CHORUS:
                D#
Cause I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 

                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 

    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 

   A#                            F
ya see? (banned in Boston) yeah, yeah.
#2.
         A#
I've had twenty different landlords in twenty different
weeks, yeah.
A#
I'm proud to say that my best friends are Boston's biggest
freaks.
D#
All the girls keep comin' around..they hear I'm so far out, 

      A#
yeah..hangin' 'round and whisperin'..'Sammy, what's this
all about?' CHORUS:
                D#
Well, I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 

                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 

    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 

   A#                           
ya see? (banned in Boston)..

F                            A#
C'mon, big baby, get on with me..grrrrrrr..oh-oh.
(INTERLUDE:) A# D# #3.
A#
Your father, your mother, your brother, don't like me..
your sister thinks I'm kinda cool, yeah.
A#
The only way I'll play your game is by breakin' one or
two of your rules.
      D#
I'm a literary genus, as you can plainly see, yeah.

  A#
I wrote you simple lyrics sayin'..'Ain't you proud of me?!'
CHORUS:
                D#
Well, I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 

                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 

    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 

   A#                       F   
ya see? (banned in Boston)..
OUTRO:
F                   A#
C'mon baby..get on..don't forget your brain-bucket, now..

 A#                                  D#
(banned in Boston..banned in Boston..banned in Boston)..

 A#
(banned in Boston)ready to go? rrrrrr, owww!..

 F
(banned in Boston)..San Francisco here we come..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.