Chuck Berry : After School Session

Rock'n'Roll / USA
(1957 - Chess Records)
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Side 1
1. School Days (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)
Up in the mornin' and out to school
The teacher is teachin' the golden rule
American history and practical math
You studyin' hard and hopin' to pass
Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
And the guy behind you won't leave you alone
Ring, ring goes the bell
The cook in the lunch room's ready to sell
You're lucky if you can find a seat
You're fortunate if you have time to eat
Back in the classroom, open your books
Keep up the teacher, don't know how mean she looks
Soon as three o'clock rolls around
You finally lay your burden down
Close up your books, get out of your seat
Down the halls and into the street
Up to the corner and 'round the bend
Right to the juke joint, you go in
Drop the coin right into the slot
You're gotta hear somethin' that's really hot
With the one you love, you're makin' romance
All day long you been wantin' to dance
Feeling the music from head to toe
Round and round and round you go
Drop the coin right into the slot
You gotta hear somethin' that's really hot
With the one you love, you're makin' romance
All day long you been wantin' to dance
Feelin' the music from head to toe
Round and round and round you go
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

2. Deep Feeling
(Instrumental)

3. Too Much Monkey Business
Runnin' to-and-fro, hard workin' at the mill
Never fail in the mail, yeah, come a rotten bill
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Salesman talkin' to me, tryin' to run me up a creek
Says you can buy it, go on try it, you can pay me next week, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Blonde haired good lookin', tryin' to get me hooked
Want me to marry, get a home, settle down, write a book
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Same thing every day, gettin' up, goin' to school
No need for me to complain, my objection's overruled, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Pay phone, something wrong, dime gone, will mail
Order suit, hoppered up for telling me a tale, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Been to Yokohama, been fightin' in the war
Army bunk, army chow, army clothes, army car, aah
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
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

4. Wee Wee Hours
That's on the other side of Maybelline
Yes, in the wee, wee hours
That's when I think of you
In the wee, wee hours
That's when I think of you
You say, but yet I wonder
If your love was ever true
In a wee, wee little room
I lay there and yearn for you
In a wee little room
I lay there and yearn for you
Wondering if you still remember
All the far out things we planned to do

5. Roly Poly (Aka Rolli Polli)
(Instrumental)

6. No Money Down
As I was motorvatin' back in town
I saw a Cadillac sign, said 'no money down'
Eased on my brakes, I pulled in the drive
Gunned my motor twice, then I walked inside
Dealer came to me, said trade in your Ford
I'll put you in a car that'll eat up the road
Tell me what you want, just sign that line
I'm gonna have it brought down to you
In a hour's time

Now I'm gonna buy a car
I'm gonna be headin' on down that road
'No money down'
I won't have to worry baby
About my broken and ragged Ford

Yes, I want a yellow convertible, two door DeVille
With a continental spare, white chrome wheels
I want power steering, Lord, I want power brakes
I want a powerfull motor with a jet off-take
Air conditioned, automatic heat
A full Murphey bed in my back seat
Short wave radio, TV and a phone
I gotta talk with my baby when I'm ridin' alone

I want four carburetors, two straight exhausts
Burnin' aviation fuel, no matter what it costs
Railroad airhorns, I want a military spot
I want a five year guarantee on everything I got
Ten dollar deductibles, twenty dolar notes
Thirty dollar liability, that's all she wrote

Side 2
1. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
Said you free that brown eyed man
You want your job you better free that brown eyed man

Flying across the desert in a TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand
She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay
To get a brown eyed handsome man
Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man

Way back in history three thousand years
Back every since the world began
There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear
For a brown eyed handsome man
That's what the trouble was brown eyed handsome man

Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
Between a doctor and a lawyer man
Her mother told her daughter go out and find yourself
A brown eyed handsome man
That's what your daddy is a brown eyed handsome man

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 brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man

Two, three count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Rounding third he was headed for home
It was a brown eyed handsome man
That won the game; it was a brown eyed handsome man

2. Berry Pickin'
(Instrumental)

3. Together (We'll Always Be)
I saw you over there
But what could I do?
I couldn't stand and stare
Or come and talk to you
And it is always fair
To formally be introduced?
To you especially
I took it on my own
To come and talk to you
Because you were alone
I hope I didn't intrude
Observing you had shown
That you were so lonely and blue

Nothing beats a failure but a try
There's a great reward
Someone will surely hail you if you try
But you must try hard
And if I hadn't tried
I wonder where I'd be
If I upon relied
On fate, you meeting me
But because I tried
Together we'll always be
Nothing beats a failure but a try
There's a great reward
Someone will surely hail you if you try
But you must try hard
And if I hadn't tried
I wonder where I'd be
If I upon relied
On fate, you meeting me
But because I tried
Together we'll always be

Oh darling
Together we'll always be

4. Havana Moon
Chant...
Me all alone
Jug of rum
Me stand and wait for the boat to come
Is lonely night is quiet the dark
The boat she late it's 12 o' clock
Me watches the tide easin' in
Is low the moon and high the wind
Havana Moon
Havana Moon
Me all alone
Me open the rum
Is long the wait for the boat to come
American girl come back to me
Sail way across the sea
We dock in New York the buildings high
We find a home up in the sky
Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...
Me still alone me drinkin' the rum
Begin to think that the boat no come
American girl she tell a lie
She say till then, but she mean goodbye
Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...
Me lay down alone, no good the rum
Me fall asleep and the boat she come
The girl she look till come the dawn
She weep and she cry
Return for home
The whistle blow me open my eyes
Bright the sun blue the sky
Me grab me shoes, me jump and me run
Me see the boat head for horizon
Havana Moon is gone da rum
The boat she sail me love she gone
Havana Moon...
Havana Moon...

5. Downbound Train
A stranger lying on a bar room floor
Had drank so much, he could drink no more
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain
To dream that he rode on that downbound train
The engine with blood was sweaty and damp
And brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp
And imps for fuel were shovelling bones
While the furnace rang with a thousand groans
The boiler was filled with lager beer
The devil himself was the engineer
The passengers were most a motley crew
Some were foreigners and others he knew
Rich men in broadcloth, beggars in rags
Handsome young ladies and wicked old hags
As the train rushed on at a terrible pace
Sulphuric fumes scorched their hands and face
Wider and wider the country grew
Faster and faster the engine flew
Louder and louder the thunder crashed
Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed
Hotter and hotter the air became
'Til their clothes were burned with each quivering refrain
Then out of the distance there came a yell
"Ha ha, " said the devil, "We're nearing home"
Oh how the passengers shrieked with pain
And begged old Satan to stop that train
The stranger awoke with an anguished cry
His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high
He fell on his knees on the barroom floor
And prayed a prayer like never before
And the prayers and vows were not in vain
For he never rode that downbound train

6. Drifting Heart
Who set my heart
Ever drifting?
You, from the start, never lifting
I fight it, but it downs me
Despite the joy around me
I can't free myself from sorrow
All through the day it's a wonder
Fall will the night, still I wonder
If I'm the only
Or are you as lonely
Come home to me tomorrow
Why should the past so change
How you feel!
Oh, but I ask you
"Forgive, if you will"
These lonely hours are
So hard to bear
I don't deny that I was unfair
You paid enough to be gay
Who made me love you this way?
So give me the chance
To renew our romance
For this time I know it will stay
Oh yes, this time I know it will stay

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