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Chuck Berry – Roll Over Beethoven
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It’s a true rock and roll song through and through, where Chuck is trying to tell the disc jockey to stop playing classical music and put on the hit rock songs. It made it to
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Chuck Berry – Maybellene
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The first song ever recorded by Chuck Berry in Chess Studios, this reworking of the classic song “Ida Red” was chuck’s first hit. Willie Dixon played bass, Johnnie Johnson played
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Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
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Widely considered one of the most iconic songs in rock and roll, “Johnny B. Goode” is based on Berry’s life. It tells the tale of a boy with humble beginnings with a talent for
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Chuck Berry – Thirty Days
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna to give you thirty days to get back home / I done called up a Gypsy woman on the telephone / Gonna send out a world wide hoodoo / That'll be the very thing
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Chuck Berry – Christmas
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If I could only have an hour of this holiday with you / We could sit and rap together, spinning records old and new / Have a little cake and a bit o' coke now and do the things we
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Chuck Berry – Nadine
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[Verse 1] / As I got on a city bus and found my vacant seat / I thought I saw my future bride walking up the street / I shouted to the driver, "Hey, conductor, you must slow down
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Chuck Berry – Brown Eyed Handsome Man
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Berry was traveling through a lot of black and latino areas, in his own words:
I didn’t see too many blue eyes
The first verse of the song was inspired by an occasion when Berry
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Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
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One of Chuck Berry’s most well known songs, “You Never Can Tell” has been heard in innumerable commercials, TV programs and films.
“You Never Can Tell” reached #14, becoming Berry
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Chuck Berry – No Particular Place to Go
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Recorded in 1964, this song reuses basically everything but the lyrics from Berry’s 1957 hit “School Days.”
Can you imagine if an artist tried a stunt like that today! If they
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Pharrell Williams – Chuck Berry
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[Intro] / See I can tell you need to get away / Won't you stand there and shake your place / Look! / Let me see your energy / Let me see your energy / Let me see your energy (oh
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Chuck Berry – My Ding a Ling
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Originally written and recorded by David Bartholemew in 1952, “My Ding A Ling” was discovered and recorded by Chuck Berry in 1972.
At the tail end of a long and illustrious career
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Chuck Berry – Confessin’ the Blues
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[Verse 1] / Baby, here I stand before you with my heart in my hand / I put it to read it, mama, hoping that you'll understand / Well, baby, mama, please don't dog me 'round / I
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Chuck Berry – Promised Land
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Here’s Chuck’s journey to the Promised Land
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Chuck Berry – Rock & Roll Music
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One of Chuck Berry’s most popular songs. Charted at number eight on the Billboard charts in 1957. The Beach Boys took it to number five in 1976.
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Chuck Berry – Let It Rock
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[Verse 1] / In the heat of the day / Down in Mobile, Alabama / Working on the railroad / With the steel-driving hammer / I gotta make some money / To buy some brand new shoes
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Chuck Berry – Come On
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[Verse 1] / Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted / All day long I'm walking 'cause I couldn't get my car started / Laid off from my job and I can't afford to check it
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Chuck Berry – Bio
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[Intro] / Lord have mercy / Gotta tell it, tell it just like it is, every word / [Verse 1] / Yeah, I was living in St. Louis / In the year of 1955 / Mama didn't have no great
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Chuck Berry – Little Queenie
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Chuck Berry' 1959 rock'n'roll classic which is said to be the direct inspiration for The Beatles' Get Back as well as Humble Pie’s Natural Born Bugie.
This song has some very
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Chuck Berry – School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)
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His biggest hit to date (#3 pop, #1 R&B, 1957), Chuck Berry was 30 years old when he recorded this song. Sometimes called the eternal teenager, Berry was the poet laureate of
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Chuck Berry – Sweet Little Sixteen
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[Verse 1] / They're really rockin' in Boston / In Pittsburgh, PA / Deep in the heart of Texas / And 'round the 'Frisco Bay / All over St. Louis / And down in New Orleans / All the
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Chuck Berry – Bye Bye Johnny
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[Verse 1] / She drew out all her money at the Southern Trust / And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound bus / Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West / Down came the tears from her
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Chuck Berry – Run Run Rudolph
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[Intro] / Out of all the reindeers, you know you're the mastermind / Run, run, Rudolph, Randolph ain't too far behind / [Chorus] / Run, run, Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town
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Chuck Berry – Little Marie
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[Verse 1] / Yes, oh yes, Long Distance, I'll accept the charge, I'll pay / Which loved one is calling me, I did not hear you say / Both are deep within my heart, her Mom and my
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Chuck Berry – Havana Moon
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[Chorus] / Havana moon / Havana moon / [Verse 1] / Me all alone with jug of rum / Me stand and wait for boat to come / Is long the night, is quiet the dark / The boat she late
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Chuck Berry – Beautiful Delilah
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[Verse 1] / Beautiful Delilah, sweet as apple pie / Always gets a second look from fellas passing by / Every time you see her she's with a different guy / Beautiful Delilah, that's
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Chuck Berry – Jo Jo Gunne
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It was in ancient history, four thousand B.C / Back up in the jungle in a coconut tree / Hanging on a branch up under the sun / Was a meddlesome monkey named Jo Jo Gunne / Old Leo
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Chuck Berry – Downbound Train
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In his important anthology, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, John Lomax also collects a song called “The Hell-Bound Train”, anonymous. This Chuck Berry song, though in a
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Chuck Berry – Sweet Little Rock & Roller
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[Verse 1] / At nine years old and sweet as she can be / All dressed up like a downtown Christmas tree / Dancing and humming a rock-roll melody / Shes the daughter of a well-
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Chuck Berry – Around and Around
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[Refrain] / They say the joint was rocking / Going 'round and 'round / Yeah, reeling and a rocking / What a crazy sound / Well they never stop a rocking / Till the moon went down
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Chuck Berry – Wee Wee Hours
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From Chuck’s auto biography:
“"Wee Wee hours” was based on the memorable tears that Joe Turner’s “Wee Baby Blue” brought from me when I was a teenager, so much in love with Margie
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Chuck Berry – Route 66
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[Verse 1] / Well if you ever plan to motor west / Jack take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66 / [Verse 2] / Well it winds from Chicago to L.A
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Chuck Berry – Dear Dad
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[Verse 1] / Dear Dad, don't get mad, what I'm asking for / Is by the next semester can I get another car? / This one here is sickning on a wide dual road / I might as well be
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Chuck Berry – Reelin' and Rockin' [London Sessions]
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I got a chance to sing one / I might be able to sing this one, too / Ho, hey / Sometimes I will, then again I think I won't / Sometimes I will, then again I think I won't
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Chuck Berry – Carol
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[Chorus] / Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away / I'm going to learn to dance if it takes me all night and day / [Verse 1] / Climb into my machine so we can cruise on out
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Chuck Berry – Tulane
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[Verse 1] / Tulane and Johnny opened a novelty shop / Back under the counter was the cream of the crop / Everything was clicking and the business was good / 'Til one day, lo and
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Chuck Berry – Too Much Monkey Business
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[Verse 1] / Running to-and-fro, hard working at the mill / Never fail, in the mail, yeah come a rotten bill / [Chorus] / Too much monkey business, too much monkey business / Too
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Chuck Berry – Oh Baby Doll
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[Chorus] / Oh, Baby Doll / When bells ring out the summer free / Oh, baby doll / Will it end for you and me / We'll sing our old Alma Mater / And think of things that used to be
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Chuck Berry – Mean Old World
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, this is a mean old world, to try to live in all by yourself / This is a mean old world, to try to live in all by yourself / When you can't have the one you really
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Chuck Berry – Hey Pedro
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[Interlude] / Yeah Pedro, you have to go to the well to get the water / Hey Pedro, dance with the little girl / Ah, this little girl dance good, no? / Como dice, "Vaya, go into
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Chuck Berry – Back in the U.S.A.
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Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today / We just touched ground on an international runway / Jet propelled back home, from over seas to the U.S.A / New York, Los Angeles, oh how I
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Chuck Berry – Big Boys
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“Big Boys” was the first single released from Chuck Berry’s twentieth studio album, Chuck.
The song features guest performances by Tom Morello and Nathaniel Rateliff.
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Chuck Berry – My Mustang Ford
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[Verse 1] / I got a 1966 cherry red Mustang Ford / It's got a three hundred and eighty five horsepower over load / You know it's way too fast to be crawling on these interstate
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Chuck Berry – Almost Grown
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[Intro] / You know I'm almost grown / [Verse 1] / Yeah and I'm doing all right in school / They ain't said I broke no rule / I ain't never been in Dutch / I don't carouse around
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