Song lyrics

• Baby I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty days
  Gonna put a false charge again ya
  That'll be the very thing that'll send ya
  I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty=-= days
  • "Thirty Days" (1955)

• As I was motivatin' over the hill
  I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville
  A Cadillac arollin' on the open road
  Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
  The Cadillac doin' about ninety-five
  She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
  Maybellene
  • "Maybellene" (1955); this song was also credited by the record company to other "co-composers", in what has been generally accepted as a form of "payola".

• You know, my temperature's risin'
  and the jukebox blows a fuse
  My heart's beatin' rhythm
  and my soul keeps on singin' the blues
  Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news
  • "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956) · Live performance

• Workin' in the fillin' station - too many tasks.
  Wipe the windows - check the tires - check the oil - dollar gas!
  Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business.
  Don't want your botheration, get away, leave me!
  Too much monkey business for me!
  • "Too Much Monkey Business" (1956)

• I bought a brand-new air-mobile
  It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville
  With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway wings
  Push in on the button and you can hear her sing
  Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me
  'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze
  • "You Can't Catch Me" (1956)

• Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old.
  Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold.
  Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
  • "School Days" (1957), Pop Chronicles Show 6 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 2

• Me still alone, me sip on the rum
  Me wonder when the boat she come
  To bring me love, oh sweet little thing
  She rock 'n' roll, she dance and sing
  She hold me tight, she touch me lips
  Me eyes they close, me heart she flip
  Havana moon, Havana moon
  • "Havana Moon" (1957)

• 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
  • "Oh Baby Doll" (1957)

• Way down South they gave a jubilee
  Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree
  They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup
  The folks dancing there got all shook up.
  • "Rock and Roll Music" (1957)

• Hey, the band was rockin'
  Goin' around and around
  Well, reelin' and a rockin'
  What a crazy sound
  Well, they never stopped rockin'
  Till the moon went down
  • "Around and Around" (1957)

• Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
  She had the world in the palm of her hand.
  But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match,
  To get a brown eyed handsome man.
  • "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1958), Pop Chronicles Show 5 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 1.

• Well I looked at my watch, it was 9:54
  I said, "Dance ballerina girl, go go go!"
  And we rolled, reelin' and a rockin'
  We was reelin' and a rockin'
  Rollin' till the break of dawn
  • "Reelin' and Rockin"' (1958)

• She’s got the grownup blues
  Tight dresses and lipstick
  She’s sportin’ high-heeled shoes
  Oh but tomorrow morning
  She’ll have to change her trend
  And be sweet sixteen
  And back in class again.
  • "Sweet Little Sixteen" (1958)

• Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
  Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
  There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
  Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
  Who never ever learned to read or write so well
  But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell.

  Go, go,
  Go, Johnny go...

  • "Johnny B. Goode" (1958) · Live performance (1958)

• His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
  And you will be the leader of a big old band.
  Many people coming from miles around
  To hear you play your music when the sun go down.
  Maybe someday your name will be in lights
  Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'."
  • "Johnny B. Goode" (1958)

• Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away
  I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
  • "Carol" (1958)

• Just like a bolt of thunder and a streak of heat
  Leo covered Jo Jo with all four feet
  Jo Jo was screamin' with tears in his eyes
  Said," Please Mr. Leo, I apologize"
  • "Joe Joe Gun" (1958)( aka "Jo Jo Gunne") *traditional, new lyrics by Chuck Berry

• Beautiful Delilah, dressed in the latest style
  Swingin' like a pendulum, walkin' down the aisle
  Deep romantic eyes, speak so low in miles
  Maybe she will settle down and marry after a while
  • "Beautiful Delilah" (1958)

• Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller
  Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her
  She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
  • "Sweet Little Rock and Roller" (1958)

• Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
  Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
  She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
  'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
  • "Memphis, Tennessee" (1959)( aka "Memphis")

• Tell me who's the queen standin' over by the record machine
  Lookin' like a model on the cover of the magazine
  She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen
  Mean while I was still thinkin'

  If it's a slow song we'll omit it
  If it's a rocker, that we'll get it
  And if it's good, she'll admit it
  C'mon Queenie, let's get with it

  • "Little Queenie" (1959)

• Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school.
  They ain't said I broke no rule.
  I ain't never been in Dutch.
  I don't browse around too much

  Don't bother me leave me alone
  Anyway I'm almost grown

  • "Almost Grown" (1959)

• Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway?
  From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay
  You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.
  • "Back in the U.S.A." (1959)

• Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
  All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow
  Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks
  Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back
  Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about
  We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out
  • "Let It Rock" (1960)

• She remembered taking money out from gathering crop
  And buying Johnnys guitar at the broker shop
  As long as he would play it by the railroad side
  And wouldn't get in trouble, he was satisfied
  But never thought that there would come a day like this
  When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss

  Going bye, bye, bye, bye
  Bye, bye, bye, bye
  Bye, bye Johnny
  Bye, bye Johnny B. Goode

  • "Bye Bye Johnny" (1960)

• Thunderbird saw the Jaguar gainin' speed
  And waved "Goodbye, Jaguar" and pulled in the lead
  

  Jaguar said, "You ain't won the race yet"
  And pulled back around the Bird like a sabre jet
  Sheriff's front bumper was a yard behind
  When the T-Bird, Jaguar crossed the line

  • "Jaguar and Thunderbird" (1960)

• Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know
  I met her walkin' down a uptown street
  She's so fine you know I wished she was mine
  I get shook up every time we meet
  • "I'm Talking About You" (1961)

• So come on, I wanna see you baby, come on
  I don't mean maybe, come on
  I'm tryin' to make you see
  That I belong to you and you belong to me
  • "Come On" (1961)

• Nadine, honey is that you?
  Oh, Nadine, honey is that you?
  Seems like every time I see you
  Darling, you got something else to do
  • "Nadine (Is It You?)" (1964)

• The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings,
  And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings.
  She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things,
  The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.
  • "Little Girl from Central" (1964)

• No particular place to go,
  So we parked way out on the Kokomo
  The night was young and the moon was bold
  So we both decided to take a stroll
  Can you imagine the way I felt?
  I couldn't unfasten her safety belt!
  
  • "No Particular Place to Go" (1964)

• They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast
  Seven hundred little records,
  all rock, rhythm and jazz
  But when the sun went down,
  the rapid tempo of the music fell
  

  "C'est la vie", say the old folks,
  it goes to show you never can tell

  • "You Never Can Tell" (1964)

• Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
  Tidewater four ten o nine
  Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
  And the poor boy's on the line
  • "Promised Land" (1964)

• Well Dad, send the money,
  See what I can see,
  Try to find a Cadillac,
  A Sixty-two or three.
  Just something that won't worry us
  To keep it on the road.
  Sincerely, your beloved son,
  Henry Junior Ford
  • "Dear Dad" (1965)

• So let me be your driver, let me be your driver
  I would love to ride you, I would love to ride you downtown
  Drive you so slow and easy you won't wanna put me down
  • "I Want to Be Your Driver" (1965)

• Tulane and Johnny opened a novelty shop
  Back under the counter was the cream of the crop
  Everything was clickin’ and the business was good
  Till one day, lo and behold, an officer stood
  Johnny jumped the counter but he stumbled and fell
  But Tulane made it over Johnny just as he yelled
  

  Go head on, Tulane, he can’t catch up with you
  Go Tulane, he ain’t man enough for you
  Go Tulane, use all the speed you got
  Go Tulane, you know you need a lot
  Go Tulane, he’s laggin’ behind
  Go head on, Tulane

  • "Tulane" (1970)

• Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane
  She's too alive to try to live alone
  And I know her needs
  And although she loves me
  She's gonna try to make it
  While the poor boy's gone
  

  Somebody should tell her to live
  And I'll understand it
  And even love her more
  When I come back home

  • "Have Mercy Judge" (1970)

• Can’t help it, but I love it
  Stand here, sing to you
  Brings back so many memories
  Many things we used to do
  ‘Till I see you here again
  Take care, good luck to you
  • "Bio" (1973)

• California, California
  Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening
  Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways
  California, from my home I'll be leaving
  • "California" (1979)

• I was looking for joy
  Yes, yes, yes, yes
  When I was little bitty boy
  

  If I would have known what makes a world go 'round
  I would have known what goes up must come down
  If you love me like I love you
  Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  • "Big Boys" (2017)

• I feel good, like it's party time, don't you know
  And it blew my mind when she smiled and said hello
  But it broke my heart when she told me it's time to go
  • "Wonderful Woman" (2017)

• She followed him around where he played his guitar
  Till he got so popular they made him a star
  Then she could only see him on a TV screen
  And hoped someday that he'd come back to New Orleans
  Everybody liked her and was knocking on wood
  But soon there came a baby for Lady B. Goode
  • "Lady B. Goode" (2017)