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Capo: 2
Tuning: E A D G B E
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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]
Ev'ry Gtime I call my baby
GTry to get a date
My Dboss says, "No dice son, you gotta work late"
[break]
GSometimes 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]
A-well I Gdidn't go to work
Told the Gboss I was sick
"Now you Dcan't use the car, cause you didn't work a lick" D D D
[break]
GSometimes 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]
Well, I Gcalled my congressman
And Ghe said, quote:
"I'd Dlike to help you son, but you're too young to vote" D D D
[break]
GSometimes 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]