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Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran - Guitar Chords

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          Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
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Written by: Cochran/Capeheart
Originally a non-album single (1958), after Cochran's death included on
"The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album" (1960)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

capo: 2nd fret
play: D
key: E
For chords in original key transpose +2

On the studio recording the idiosyncratic chord riff is played on
an acoustic guitar. It is played in D-shapes but the key is E major,
so probably a capo 2nd fret is used. 

Chords in [ brackets ]: no chords, just bass guitar; suggestion: hit the
chord on the 1 there but then mute the strings there with your left hand
and strum with your right to create a “rhythm track”.

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RIFF
    D     G          A     D          D     G          A     D
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  
e|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|
B|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|
G|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|
D|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|
A|----------------|--0-0-0---------|----------------|--0-0-0---------|
E|--------3-------|----------------|--------3-------|----------------|

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[Intro]
| [ D ] |  %  | D  G  | A  D  | D  G  | A  D  |
  (bass only)      (RIFF)           (RIFF)

[Verse 1]
      [ D ]
A-I'm a-gonna raise a fuss
    [ D ]
I'm a-gonna raise a holler

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

      [ D ]
About a-workin' all summer
      [ D ]
Just to try to earn a dollar

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

      G
Ev'ry time I call my baby
G
Try to get a date
   D
My boss says, "No dice son, you gotta work late"
 (break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
          D                               | [ D ] |  %  |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
        (break)

[Interlude]
| D  G  | A  D  | D  G  | A  D  |
     (RIFF)           (RIFF)

[Verse 2]
        [ D ]
A-well my mom and pop a-told me
      [ D ]
Son you gotta make some money

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

       [ D ]
A-if you wanna use the car
      [ D ]
To go a-ridin' next Sunday

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

         G
A-well I didn't go to work
         G
Told the boss I was sick
         D                                                D D D
"Now you can't use the car, cause you didn't work a lick"
       (break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
          D                               | [ D ] |  %  |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
        (break)

[Interlude]
| D  G  | A  D  | D  G  | A  D  |
     (RIFF)           (RIFF)

[Verse 3]
       [ D ]
I gonna take two weeks
    [ D ]
Gonna have a fine vacation

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

        [ D ]
I'm gonna take my problem
     [ D ]
To the United Nations

| D  G  | A  D  | 
     (RIFF)

        G
Well, I called my congressman
    G
And he said, quote:
     D                                                   D D D
"I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote"
   (break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
          D                               | [ D ] |  %  |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
        (break)

[Outro]
| D  G  | A  D  | D  G  | A  D  |
     (RIFF)           (RIFF)
| D  G  | A  D  | D  G  | A  D  |
     (RIFF)           (RIFF)
| D  G  | A  D
     (RIFF)
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