Pink Peg Slacks:Eddie Cochran.
Album - Eddie Cochran Great Hits -
on LIBERTY Records in 1983.
( The sixth album posthumously released
in the US after Eddie Cochran's death
in 1960.)
INTRO: G
#1.
G D G
I went down town last night, gonna dig a show,
D
when I passed a display window of a big department
G
store.
G
Well, I looked inside this window, man, all filled
up with racks.
G7
And down there near the bottom was a crazy pair of
slacks.
CHORUS:
C G
I gotta have 'em, yeah, well, I need 'em for this cat.
G D
Well, well, yeah, how can I go cattin' without crazy
G D
pink peg slacks?
#2.
G
Well, I walked up to a salesman, I said, mister, I'm
flat broke, but I gotta have them pink slacks.
G
He said, man is this a joke?
G
Well, I asked him how much money, he said, add up four
and eight.
G
He said, man, them pants is crazy, them's pink, rayon
G7
acetate.
CHORUS:
C G
I gotta have 'em, yeah, well, I need 'em for this cat.
G D
Well, well, yeah, how can I go cattin' without crazy
G D
pink peg slacks?
#3.
G
Well, I went to see my baby, asked her for some dough.
Said, well, you know I love you, honey, what you need this
money for?
G
Well, I told her about them peggers, I found across downtown.
G7
Got a sawbuck from her, daddy, yeah, and I turned my Ford around.
CHORUS:
C G
I gotta have 'em, yeah, well, I need 'em for this cat.
G D
Well, well, yeah, how can I go cattin' without crazy
G D
pink peg slacks?
#4.
G
I slid my Ford into a stop, rushed into the store.
I said, man, I got a sawbuck, he said, you need two bucks more.
G
I said, man can't I charge it?
G
He said, man, we don't get these things for free.
G
I said, mister you just don't realize what these pink peggers
G7
mean to me.
OUTRO:
C G
I gotta have 'em, yeah, well, I need 'em for this cat.
G D
Well, well, yeah, how can I go cattin' without crazy
G
pink peg slacks?
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.