Key: F major•
Verse 1
We'd like to have a heart -to -heart talk.
Uh -oh.
Have you spoken to your mother yet?
No, Dad.
We want to ask you.
Well, I guess you're both old enough.
What we want to know is...
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What did they do before rock and roll?
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How'd they ever make it, bless my soul?
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Maybe in the Navarone and Friendly
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All they heard on the radio was
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When the blue of the night
meets the b -b -b -blue
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I found some ancient records from 1945
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I put a couple on the phonograph slide
Ha -ha -ha -ha -ha -ha
Oh, well, I thought I died
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Now let me tell you, it was an awful sound
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To hear what 27 cats were putting down
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I couldn't believe my ears,
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it was a shock to me
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Cause all that they were playing
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was the melody
They had a thing called swing,
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they didn't have no beat
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And then I played a record,
strangest thing I heard
but I heard his word
I mean, like, it was sad
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And tell me, what's a Hugo Winterhalter,
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Dad?
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Oh well I felt so poor for
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they never had the benefit of rock and roll,
boop -boop -be -doop, ooh!
Oh, no!
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F Bb Db G
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