Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me chords

INTRO: [G] [F] [B] [G] [D]

#1.
[G]B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers,

Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady.
[G]Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire,

Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction.
[C]Baby, baby gotta-gotta gimme-gimme gettin' hotter,

Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story.
[G]Mahavishnu, Fujiyama, Kama-sutra, rama-lama,

Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry,
[D]Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and [C]Fats is back and Finger Poppin'.

[CHORUS]
[G]Life [Em7]is a [C]rock but the [D]radio [G]rolled [Em7]me.
[C]Gotta [D]turn it up [G]loud..[Em7]er, [C]so my [G]DJ told [Em7]me ([C]whoa, [D]whoa!)
[G]Life [Em7]is a [C]rock but the [D]radio [G]rolled [Em7]me.
[C]At the [D]end of my [G]rain[Em7]bow, [C]lies a [D]Golden [G]Oldie.[F] [C] [D]

#2.
[G]FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin',

friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations.
[G]Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin',

Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers.
[C]Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary,

Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper.
[G]Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter,

Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses,
[D]Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, [C]Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it.

[CHORUS]
[G]Life [Em7]is a [C]rock but the [D]radio [G]rolled [Em7]me.
[Am]life [Gbm]is a [D]rock but the [Em7]radio..[G]wooooooo!!!

INTERLUDE: [G] [D] [A] [G] [D] [A]

#3.
[Bb]Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and

Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla.
[Bb]Denver, John and Osmond, Donny,

JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah.

David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider,
[Eb]Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders.

Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah,
[Bb]Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda.

Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy,
[F]CBS and Warner Brothers, [Eb]RCA and all the others.

[CHORUS]
[Dm7]Life [Gm7]is a [Eb]rock but the [F]radio [Bb]rolled [Gm7]me.
[Eb]Gotta [F]turn it up [Bb]louder, [Eb]so my [F]DJ [Bb]told me..([Eb]whoa, whoa, whoa, [F]whoa!!)
[Dm7]Life [Gm7]is a [Eb]rock but the [F]radio [Bb]rolled [Gm7]me.
[Eb]At the [F]end of my [Dm7]rain[Bb]bow [Eb]lies a [F]Golden [Bb]Oldie.

#4.
[Bb]Listen..remember, they're playing our song!
([Bb]oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-[Dm7]oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo..)
[Bb]Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me,

Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey, make it bad and play it funky.

(Wanna take you higher!)

([Bb]oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-[Dm7]oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo..)

[Bb]Freddie King and Albert King B.B. King and frolicking.

Get it on and Nat Gerardi, Papalardi, Hale and Hearty..
([Bb]Baby baby baby baby, light my fire!)

(Celebrate!) Yeah (Dance to the music!)

#5.
[Bbm]There's a perfect more than human gentle words of Randy Newman..
One, two, three..so, oh, so, please, I [Bb]need a breather!

(Celebrate!) Yeah (Dance to the music!) (Wanna take you higher!)
[Eb]Aret[Bb]ha!
[Bb]Tito Puente, Boffalongo, Cuba, War and even Mongo.

Peter Dial, Alex Hood, Boogie Brass, baby baby baby baby, light my fire!)
[Bb]Baby, everything is alright! Whoo!!!

[OUTRO]
[Bb]California, (Everything is alright!) Beatlemania, (Uptight!)

New York City (outta sight!) Transylvania, S&G and V&C and Bobby Vee
[Bb]and SRO, yeah, yeah!


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.