Key: B
Introduction:
G F# F
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio Let's go
G C D
Do you remember Hullabaloo,
Upbeat, Shinding and Ed Sullivan too?
G C D
Do you remember Murray the K,
Alan Freed, and high energy?
A D
Do you remember lying in bed
G E
With your covers pulled up over your head?
C D G
Radio playin' so no one can see
C D
We need change, we need it fast
G E
Before rock's just part of the past
C D
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me
G F]
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio...
G C D
Will you remember Jerry Lee,
G C D
John Lennon, T. Rex and Ol Moulty?
G C D
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century
G
(chorus)
G F# F]
Rock'n, rock'n'roll radio...
2. I'm affected
A F G
When I look into your big brown eyes
And I feel like I'm in paradise
A F G
'cause I'm affected, 'fected
Yeah, I'm affected, 'fected
A F G A
Well I'm affected and all I want is you
G
Didn't know it a few years ago
A
But now I finally know
F
I want you by my side
G E
I want you baby, baby, baby, baby
A F G
Yeah, I love you and I want you to know
Yeah, yeah, and that's for sure
E
Yeah, I love you...
'cause I'm affected...
E A B
Danny says we gotta go
Gotta go to Idaho
E A B Eriff
But we can't go surfin' 'cause it's 20 below
Sound check's at 5:02
A B E
Baby oho-ho-ho
We got nowhere to go
A B C# A B
And it may sound funny, but it's true
B
Watching Get Smart on TV
Thinkin' about you and me and you and me
D
Hangin' out in L.A. and there's nowhere to go
A
It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow
D
Listening to Sheena on the radio oh-ho oh-ho
B E
Oh-ho oh-ho uho-ho
F# B C#
Sound check's at 5:02
Record stores and interviews
F# B C# F#
Oh, but I can't wait to be with you tomorrow
B C# F#
Baby oho-ho-ho
We got nowhere to go
B C# Eb B C#
And it may sound funny, but it's true
Hangin' out in...
F# B C#]
till fade out ]
4. Chinese Rock
Bb5
Guitar 1
F5 G5]
Guitar 2
Guitar 1
Bb5 C5]
Guitar 2
F5 G5
Somebody call me on the door
Say hey hey hey it's Arty home
D5 A5 G5 A5
I'm living on a chinese rock
All my best things are in hock
F5 G5]
Guitar 2
Bb5 C5]
Guitar 2
F5 G5
The plaster fallin' off the wall
My girlfriend's cryin' in the shower stall
D5 A5 G5 A5
I'm living on a chinese rock
All my best things are in hock
G5
The plaster fallin' off the wall
My girlfriend's cryin' in the shower stall
D5 A5 G5 A5
I'm living on a chinese rock
All my best things are in hock
B
Jackie is a punk, Judy is a runt
They went down to the Mudd Club
E F#
Oh-yeah
B
Jackie is a bookie, Judy's taking loans
They both came up to New York
E F# B
And oh, I don't know why she wrote that letter
Oh no, oh no
E F#
Oh I don't know why
D# F#
We won't forget her, oh no
B
Jackie's playing hooky Judy's playing pool
They both got caught for cutting
B
Jackie's scalping tickets Judy's getting harassed
They both got kicked outside
D#
Dont't know what's on her mind
B
I don't know, no, I don't know
D#
But I can't stand to see her cryin'
B
She's still cryin', she ain't tryin'
D#
She's going to get left behind
E F# G# F#
Nobody wants you, nobody wants you
Jackie is a punk...
A C D
Don't wanna study on the G.I. bill
Want more action, haven't had my fill
E B C G D
Let's go
Let's go
B F# G]
Got a country you wanna protect
But your army is more likely to defect
E G
Gee it's kinda scary out here
C D
Mosquitoes are happy tonight
E G
Mommy, Daddy, can I please come home
C D
Even if just for one night
Let's go...
B F# G]
Schocked how deadly we fight back
Troublemakers who attack
E
Let's go
7. Baby I love you
G# C# D#
Have I ever told you
How good it feels to hold you
G#
And though I'm really tryin'
D#
I think I may start cryin'
G# Bb
My heart can't wait an other day
D#
When you kiss me I just gotta
Kiss me I just gotta
G# C# D#
Baby, I love you come on baby
Baby, I love you
G# C# D#]
I can't live without you
I love everything about you
G# C# D#]
Oh I'm so glad I found you
I want my arms around you
G# C# D#]
Oh I'm so glad...
Baby, I love...
G# C# D#]
Baby, I love you
Baby, I love you
D G
I can't make it on time
I can't make it on time
D B
You gotta wait wait 'cause you don't need no one
Wait wait 'cause you know that I'm the one
G A
You gotta wait hey, hey, hey.....
F#\G A x4
A E
I had no advantage over you
There was troubles and I had'em too
E A DA
Ba-ba-banana
This ain't Havana
E
Ba-ba-bananas
Say you're a victim of society
D A E A
You better offer some resistence
You better give up on my insistence
A D A]
Ba-ba-banana...
D E
You say you're poor and uneducated
You ain't gotta chance 'cause you're hated
A C E D]
You better offer...
A D A E]
I had no advantage...
A D A]
Ba-ba-banana...
A D A]
Ba-ba-banana...
A
10. Rock 'n' Roll High School
C
Well I don't care about history
Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school
F
'Cause that's not where I wanna be
C
Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school
A F
I just wanna have some kicks
A F
I just wanna get some chicks
C A F G
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school
C
Well the girls out there knock me out, you know
Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school
F
Cruisin' around in my GTO
C
Rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school
A F
hide from the teachers and the principal
A F
becuase you don't want to be no fool
C A F G
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock'n'roll high school