I Was There When Rock Was Born chords by Jerry naylor

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Verse 1
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I  (G major) was  (C major)  (G major) there when Elvis  (C major) 
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Pres (G major) ley gave Blue Moon a blues
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I was there when  (C major) Carl Perkins  (G major) 
sang about blue suede shoes
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An (C major) d I was there when Buddy
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Holly  (G major) fell for Peggy Sue
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I was there,  (F major) yeah,  (C major) when Rock was born  (G major) 
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I was there when  (C major) Jerry's  (G major) playin'
made great balls of fire
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And I was there when  (C major) Johnny
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 (G major) fell into a wing of fire
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I  (C major) was there when the flames
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 (G major) climbed higher and higher
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I was  (F major) there when  (C major) rock was born  (G major) 
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I was there  (F major) when  (C major) rock was
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born  (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (G major)  (F major)  (C major) 
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 (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (G major) 
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I was there  (C major)  (G major) when the rhythm
hit the delta blues
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We were young  (C major) an d free
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an (G major) d didn't have a thing to lose
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We  (C major) didn't know that we were
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gonna change  (G major) the world
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On the day  (F major) that  (C major) a rock was born  (G major) 
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That was the  (F major) day  (C major) when a rock was born  (G major) 
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 (D major) Don't you listen when they
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say  (C major) the music's dying
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Cause I'm here  (G major) to say
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that the mu (D major) sic's still alive  (G major) 
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I was there  (F major) when  (C major) rock was born  (G major) 
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I was there  (F major) when  (C major) rock was born  (G major) 
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I was there  (F major) when  (C major) a rock was born  (G major) 
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I was there  (F major)  (C major) when a rock
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was born  (G major)  (C major)  (G major) 
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