Intro:
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#1:
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Down goes the sun, sitting, ducking on guitar
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Up comes the moon, twinkle, twinkle little star
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One and one is two hitching two, to make it four
CC7F
Johnny, get your guitar, let's go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break:
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#2:
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Johnny plays the guitar at the weekly record hop
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He starts to twist and turn and then they wouldn't let him stop
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Girls so shook up, seeing him shaking on the show
CC7F
Everybody starts to holler go, go, go, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo):
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#3
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Duckwalking on his knees, pecking like a hen
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Looking like a locomotive, here he comes again
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Meow said the kitty, puppy, bow, wow, wow
CC7F
Go and pick your guitar, Johnny don't stop now, oh baby
Instrumental break:
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#4:
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Backed up by a jazz band, laying on the wood
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Mixin' Ahmad Jamal in my Johnny B Goode
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Sneaking Errol Garner in my Sweet Sixteen
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Now they tell me Stan Kenton's cutting Maybelline, oh baby
Instrumental break (sax. solo):
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#5:
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Papa said to Mama, this I never understood
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How he picks his guitar, make it sound so good
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Used to sound goofy but I guess it's all right
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Papa's taking Mama to the gig tomorrow night, oh baby