Maybellene chords by Jerry Lee Lewis
Verse 1
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Maybellene
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
C
G
Oh Maybellene, why can't
you be true?
D
You've started back doing
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the things you used to do.
Verse 2
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As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a coup de ville.
A Cadillac a- rollin' on
the open road,
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford.
The Cadillac doin' 'bout ninety- five,
She's bumper to bumper rollin'
side by side.
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Verse 3
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Maybellene, why can't you be true?
C
Oh Maybellene, why
G
can't you be true?
D
You've started back doing
Verse 4
the things you used to do.
G
Pink in the mirror on top of the hill,
It's just like swallowin'
up a medicine pill.
First thing I saw that Cadillac grille
Doin' a hundred and ten gallopin'
over that hill.
Offhill curve, a downhill stretch,
Me and that Cadillac
neck by neck.
Verse 5
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Maybellene, why can't you be true?
C
Oh Maybellene, why
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can't you be true?
D
You've started back doing the things
you used to do.
G
Verse 6
The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford,
D
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more.
G
It then got clody and it started to rain,
D
I tooted my horn for
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a passin' lead
C
G
The rain water blowin'
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C
all under my hood,
G
I knew that was doin'
my motor good.
Verse 7
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Maybellene, why can't you be true?
C
Oh Maybellene, why can
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't you be true?
D
You've started back doing
Verse 8
the things you used to do.
G
The motor cooled down,
the heat went down
And that's when I heard
that highway sound.
The Cadillac a- sittin' like
a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top
of the hill.
Verse 9
G
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
C
Oh Maybellene, why can't
G
D
you be true?
You've started back doing the things
Outro 1
you used to do.
D
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D
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Maybellene
Jerry Lee Lewis
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