Let There Be Rock chords by
Drive-by Truckers

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

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G

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F

F

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Dropped

acid,

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G

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F

F

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G

G

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Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,

And I thought them lasers were

a spider chasing me.

On my way home,

F

F

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G

G

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got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama,

F

F

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G

G

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With a half-ounce of of weed and a

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F

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G

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case of Sterling Big Mouth.

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F

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C

C

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My buddy Gene was driving,

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G

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F

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he just barely turned sixteen.

Fm

Fm

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And I'd like to say, "I'm sorry",

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C

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G

G

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F

F

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but we lived to tell about it

Fm

Fm

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C

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G

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And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy,

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F

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stupid, shit.

Verse 2

F

F

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And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd

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C

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G

G

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F

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but I sure saw Molly Hatchet

Fm

Fm

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F

F

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C

C

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F

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G

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With 38 Special and the Johnny Van

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F

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Zant Band.

Interlude 1

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F

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C

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F

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C

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One night when I was seventeen, I drank

Verse 3

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G

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F

F

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a fifth of vodka,

On an empty stomach,

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C

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G

G

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then drove over to a friend's house.

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C

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And I backed my car between his parent's

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G

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F

F

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Cadillac's without a scratch.

Then crawled to the back door

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C

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G

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and slithered threw the key hole,

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F

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C

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And sneaked up the stares

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G

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And puked in the toilet.

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C

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I passed out and nearly drowned but his sister,

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G

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DD, pulled me out.

Verse 4

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F

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And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd

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C

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G

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F

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but I sure saw Molly Hatchet

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C

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G

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And the band that I was in played "The Boy's

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F

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are Back in Town".

Interlude 2

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F

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C

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G

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C

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F

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C

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Skynyrd was set to play

Verse 5

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G

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Huntsville,

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C

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Alabama, in the spring of 77, I had

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G

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F

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a ticket but it got canceled.

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G

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So, the show,

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C

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G

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it was rescheduled for the "Street Survivors Tour".

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C

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And the rest, as they say, is history.

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So I never

Verse 6

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C

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saw Lynyrd Skynyrd

G

G

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But I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne

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F

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C

C

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with Randy Rhoads in 82

G

G

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Right before that plane crash.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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but I sure saw AC D

C

C

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C

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F

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C

C

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With Bon Scott singing,

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G

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F

F

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"Let There Be Rock Tour".

Verse 7

C

C

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G

G

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F

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With Bon Scott singing, let there be rock!

Outro 1

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Bb

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Chords

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The original key of Let There Be Rock by Drive-By Truckers is C major.

The primary chords used in Let There Be Rock are F, C, G, Fm, Bb.

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