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Banned In Boston:Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs. #117 on BB Hot 100 on MGM Records in 1967. INTRO: A#
A#Owww! Let me get up on this Fdoctored up thunder-ticket.
#1.
I'm A#rollin' down the turnpike for a night on Boston's town, yeah.
I didn't please the Boys In Blue with the way I carried on.
I'm D#goin' to San Francisco..my reputation's been made, yeah. A#When Boston censored me..I knew I'd made the grade.
CHORUS:
Cause I've been D#banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you know how bad I can A#be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, I'm Fweird and feared, baby..D#wild and woolly..can't ya A#see? (banned in Boston) yeah, Fyeah.
#2.
I've had A#twenty different landlords in twenty different weeks, yeah. A#I'm proud to say that my best friends are Boston's biggest
freaks.
D#All the girls keep comin' around..they hear I'm so far out, yeah..A#hangin' 'round and whisperin'..'Sammy, what's this
all about?' CHORUS:
Well, I've been D#banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you know how bad I can A#be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, I'm Fweird and feared, baby..D#wild and woolly..can't ya A#see? (banned in Boston).. FC'mon, big baby, get on with A#me..grrrrrrr..oh-oh.
(INTERLUDE:) A# D# #3.
A#Your father, your mother, your brother, don't like me.. your sister thinks I'm kinda cool, yeah. A#The only way I'll play your game is by breakin' one or
two of your rules.
I'm a D#literary genus, as you can plainly see, yeah. I A#wrote you simple lyrics sayin'..'Ain't you proud of me?!'
CHORUS:
Well, I've been D#banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you know how bad I can A#be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, I'm Fweird and feared, baby..D#wild and woolly..can't ya A#see? (banned in Boston)..F
OUTRO:
FC'mon baby..get on..A#don't forget your brain-bucket, now.. (A#banned in Boston..banned in Boston..D#banned in Boston).. (A#banned in Boston)ready to go? rrrrrr, owww!.. (Fbanned in Boston)..San Francisco here we come..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.