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- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:30:39 -0700
- From: snerd <snerd@mortimer.com>
- Subject: CRD: Crocodile Rock Elton John/Bernie Taupin
-
- CROCODILE ROCK
- Elton John/Bernie Taupin
- 1972 Dick James Music Ltd.
-
- Pre-Intro- begin slowly - G [4 beats] C/E [2 beats] F# [2 beats]
- - now go to tempo
-
- [Intro] - G G Em Em C C D D [see below for riff]
-
- [verse 1]
-
- G Bm
- I remember when rock was young, me and Susie had so much fun
-
- C D
- Holding hands and skimmin' stones had a old gold Chevy & a place of my own
-
- G Bm
- But the biggest kick I ever got was doin' a thing called the Crocodile Rock
-
- C D
- While the other kids were rockin' 'round the clock we were hoppin' and
-
-
- boppin' to the Crocodile Rock, well
-
-
- [chorus]
-
- Em A7
- Crocodile Rockin' is something shockin' when your feet just can't keep still
-
- D7 G
- I never had me a better time and I guess I never will.
-
- E A7
- Oh, Lawdy mamma those Friday nights when Susie wore her dresses tight and
-
- D7 C
- the Crocodile Rockin' was out of sight.......................................
-
-
- G G Em Em C C D D [see below for riff]
-
- [verse 2]
-
- But the years went by and rock just died, Susie went & left me for some
- foreign guy,
- Long nights cryin' by the record machine dreamin' of my Chevy & my old
- blue jeans but they'll
- Never kill the thrills we've got burnin' up to the Crocodile Rock,
- Learning fast till the weeks went past, we really thought the Crocodile
- Rock would last, well
-
- [chorus]
-
- [verse 1]
-
- [chorus]
-
- [outro] G G Em Em C C D D [see below for riff]
-
- RIFF - if you know how it goes, the extra notes you throw in at the
- appropriate spots are-
- E on the G chord
- F# on the Em and C chords
- G on the D chord [dropping the F#]
-
- BASS - Walk up from the root to the sixth on each 1/4 note, so in each
- bar the notes are-
- G - G B D E
- Em- E G B D
- C - C E G A
- D - D F# A B
-
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