Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Old jazz guys being interviewed
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Thirty years beyond their prime
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Em
With memories of road shows
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Gm
Gdim
From the Golden Age of
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Swingtime
Verse 2
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Leans forward on his stool
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E
seen better days
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of faded cool
Verse 3
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world
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Em
One of tailcoats and victrolas
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D
And one day they'll make TV shows
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On aging rock- and- rollers
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Edim
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On aging rock- and-
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rollers
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
Colorama
And the Watkins copycat echo
While the singer moves around
like an Elvis clone
Verse 5
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And every song was short and sweet,
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and every beat was fast
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Em
rock- and- roll won't last
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You know it just won't last,
Verse 6
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hard lesson to learn
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It's a hard, hard, hard lesson to learn
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Verse 7
when it's all over?
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What are you going to do right now?
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when it's all over?
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Will you get along somehow?
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I just don't know
Verse 8
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Bm
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Em
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Feeling like I do right now
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Verse 9
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Red guitar, red guitar
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You know I really miss
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that red guitar
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Red guitar, red guitar
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You know I really miss that red guitar
Verse 10
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my tombstone
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Em
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I'm a graduate of rock- and- roll
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Class of '58
Verse 11
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of the class of '58
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Red guitar, '58, I'm a
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graduate of the class of '58
Verse 12
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And there's no use analyzing these
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anthems that were sung
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Rock- and- roll's not good or bad
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It's just the sound of being young
Verse 13
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D
And doo- wop and payola
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And one day they'll make TV shows
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on aging rock- and- rollers
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One day they'llmakeTV shows on
Outro 1
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