The Beach Boys – Summertime Blues (Guitar)

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Summertime Blues:Beach Boys. Album - Surfin' Safari - #32 on BB Hot 200 on CAPITOL Records in 1962. (Acoustic guitar version.) INTRO: E..E A B E..E A B E #1.
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Well, I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler..

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about a workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar.

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Every time I call my baby, and ask to get a date..

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my boss says, 'No dice son, you gotta work late.'

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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do..but there ain't 

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no cure for the summertime blues.
#2.
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Well, my mom and pop told me, 'Son, you gotta make some money..

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if you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday.

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Well, I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick..

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'Well, you can't use the car cause you didn't work a lick!'

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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do..but there ain't no 

                              E A B E
cure for the summertime blues.
#3.
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I'm gonna take the weeks, gonna have a fine vacation.

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I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nations.

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Well, I called my Congressman and he said, 'Whoa!'

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I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.'

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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do..but there ain't no 

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cure for the summertime blues. 
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.