Transistor Radio chords by
George Coleman
George Coleman
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Key: B major
Intro 1
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Transistor radio, up,
Verse 1
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up and away we go, transistor radio, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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Last
Saturday night,
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I saw a girl trying to get home.
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Man, she really had it.
A half a dress, one stocking.
Fortunately, she had on underwear.
She had on her go -go boots.
She's standing on the corner waiting
for the light to change so she can make it across
the street.
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Before the light changed, I caught up with her,
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caught her by the left hand, with my
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right hand.
With my left hand, I pointed my
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.45 between her eyes.
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I said, walk, sister.
Don't shoot.
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I said, shut up and listen.
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Walk, sister.
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So I marches into the nearest alley,
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I say, all right, give it up and tell me where it's
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at.
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Ah, don't shoot, don't kill me,
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I'll let you, I say, shut up, no, then what?
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I want that transistor radio, all right.
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Next day I went to
City
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Hall, pointed it between the
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eyes of the clerk, said,
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all right, brother,
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give it up and tell me where it's at.
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Well, don't shoot, don't kill me.
I'll marry you with anybody you
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want to hear.
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Here's your license plate right here.
Shut up, no.
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Then what?
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I want that transistor radio.
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Then I went down to the police headquarters and
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threw that same .45 between the eyes of
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the chief jailer.
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Ah!
Don't shoot!
Don't kill me!
Here's the key!
Let every man in the house!
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I don't give a damn!
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I said, shut up!
No!
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Then what?
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I want that transistor radio.
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You'll never know, you'll never know,
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you'll never know about that transistor radio, you'll
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All that boy will ever want is a transistor radio,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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Went to
First
National
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Bank, put it between the eyes of the chief teller,
said, all right,
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give it up an d tell me where it's at.
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Take it out.
Don't shoot, don't kill us.
Get the key to the main vault!
Go get it out!
No,
Sluke, shut up, no!
Then what?
I want that transistor radio.
And when I died...
...the old baldhead
Baptist preacher...
...standing beside my grave...
...reading this ashes to
ashes, dust to dust...
Every time the fool said
a word, he had to cuss.
Amen.
Them old ladies got him inside
the grave.
She was just a cryin' a boo -hoo.
Turnin' flips, inhalin' dust,
spittin' out dirt,
grass in her hair, dirt in her mouth,
runnin' out the nose.
Ah, ah, ooh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
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Reverend walks over to her and said,
cool it.
What's the matter?
Just because he's dead,
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you think that,
It's going to be the reason
why you have to go.
She said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He said, then what?
He's taking with him my transistor radio,
yo, yo, yo,
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yo, transistor radio.
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