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Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues (1958)
(Cochran/Capeheart)
Originally a non-album single, after Cochran's death included on
"The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album" (1960)
On the studio recording the idiosyncratic chord riff is played on
an acoustic guitar. It is played in D-shapes but the key is E major,
so probably a capo 2nd fret is used.
Chords in [ brackets ]: no chords, just bass guitar; suggestion: hit the
chord on the 1 there but then mute the strings there with your left hand
and strum with your right to create a “rhythm track”.
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capo: 2nd fret
play: D
key: E
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RIFF
D G A D D G A D
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--0-0-0-2-------|
B|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|--3-3-3-0-------|--2-2-2-3-------|
G|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--2-2-2-2-------|
D|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|--0-0-0-0-------|--2-2-2-0-------|
A|----------------|--0-0-0---------|----------------|--0-0-0---------|
E|--------3-------|----------------|--------3-------|----------------|
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[Intro]
| [ D ] | % | D G | A D | D G | A D |
(bass only) (RIFF) (RIFF)
[Verse]
[ D ]
A-I'm a-gonna raise a fuss
[ D ]
I'm a-gonna raise a holler
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
[ D ]
About a-workin' all summer
[ D ]
Just to try to earn a dollar
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
G
Ev'ry time I call my baby
G
Try to get a date
D
My boss says, "no dice son, you gotta work late"
(break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
D | [ D ] | % |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Interlude]
| D G | A D | D G | A D |
(RIFF) (RIFF)
[Verse]
[ D ]
A-well my mom and pop a-told me
[ D ]
Son you gotta make some money
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
[ D ]
A-if you wanna use the car
[ D ]
To go a-ridin' next Sunday
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
G
A-well I didn't go to work
G
Told the boss I was sick
D D D D
"Now you can't use the car, cause you didn't work a lick"
(break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
D | [ D ] | % |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Interlude]
| D G | A D | D G | A D |
(RIFF) (RIFF)
[Verse]
[ D ]
I gonna take two weeks
[ D ]
Gonna have a fine vacation
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
[ D ]
I'm gonna take my problem
[ D ]
To the United Nations
| D G | A D |
(RIFF)
G
Well I called my congressman
G
And he said quote
D D D D
"I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote"
(break)
G
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
D | [ D ] | % |
But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues (bass only)
(break)
[Outro]
| D G | A D | D G | A D |
(RIFF) (RIFF)
| D G | A D | D G | A D |
(RIFF) (RIFF)
| D G | A D
(RIFF)