Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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We're to take you all the way back now,
back at the very begin
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ning of rock and roll.
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Be fore it was even called rock and roll.
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and then R &B,
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long before it was called rock and roll.
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In the beginning, four or five kids
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down on the street corner
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and harmonized with each other.
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no money,
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didn't matter what gender they were,
what race, what religion,
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but they discovered that
by harmonizing with other
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an d they knew it made
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that kind of magic on their own needed
to interact with other people
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for that kind of special magic.
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it would end up giving birth
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That's why we're here today.
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The problem was in America in
the early 50s
and you had white radio
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an d most of the kids harmonizing
and it took the courage
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of some very important white DJs
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to play that black mu sic
for some white kids
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an d the minute those
and absorbed it
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and they crucified Alan Freed for
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do ing that he died a broken man,
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but we all owe him a great
debt of gratitude
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can never be lived again,
but we can visit there
every now and then,
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innocent time.
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That's what this song's all about,
we're about to do.
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an d I miss that harmonizing
with each other.
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in our society these days, you know, just in real life,
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you know,
a little bit more harmony,
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you know what saying?
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something called The City
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Weeps Tonight.
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