Luther Played The Boogie:Johnny Cash. Album - Greatest! - on SUN Records in 1959. The single hit #8 on Country Charts and was a crossover hit. (Luther Perkins was the guitar player in The Tennessee Three, Cash's back-up band. Perkins was responsible for developing the Johnny Cash 'sound.') INTRO: --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ----3-0--------3-3-----3-0-------3-3--- ---------3--1---------------3-1-------- #1.

^FWe were just a plain ol' hillbilly band with a plain old country style. ^FWe never played the kind of songs that'd ^Cdrive anybody

wild.

^FPlayed a rail^Fmroad song with a ^Bbstomping beat, we played a ^Fblues song kinda slow and sweet. But the ^Gthing that knocked them off their feet was, ^Cooh-wee!!

CHORUS:

When ^FLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie-woogie.

Luther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie-woogie.

^BbLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie-woogie. ^FLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie in the ^Cstrangest kind of ^Fway..(play it strange!)

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^FWell, we did our best to entertain every^Fmwhere ^Fwe'd go. ^FWe'd nearly wear our fingers off to give the ^Cfolks a show. Played ^Fjumping jive to make 'em get in the groove, we played ^Bbsad

songs real slow and smooth.

But the ^Gonly thing that'd make 'em move was, ^Cooh-wee!! CHORUS: When ^FLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the

boogie-woogie. Luther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie-woogie.

^BbLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie-woogie. ^FLuther played the boogie-woogie..Luther played the boogie in the ^Cstrangest kind of ^Fway.

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^FNow, didn't Luther play the boogie strange? OUTRO: --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- ---------------5-5--------------------------- -----3-3-3-----------3----------------------- -------------------------5--1----------------

A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.

Johnny Cash - Luther played the boogie