Summertime Blues:Beach Boys.
Album - Surfin' Safari - #32 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1962.
(Acoustic guitar version.)
INTRO: E..E A B E..E A B E
#1.
E E A B E
Well, I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler..
E E A B E
about a workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar.
A
Every time I call my baby, and ask to get a date..
E
my boss says, 'No dice son, you gotta work late.'
A E
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do..but there ain't
E E A B E
no cure for the summertime blues.
#2.
E E A B E
Well, my mom and pop told me, 'Son, you gotta make some money..
E E A B E
if you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday.
A
Well, I didn't go to work, told the boss I was sick..
E
'Well, you can't use the car cause you didn't work a lick!'
A E
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do..but there ain't no
E A B E
cure for the summertime blues.
#3.
E E A B E
I'm gonna take the weeks, gonna have a fine vacation.
E E A B E
I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nations.
A
Well, I called my Congressman and he said, 'Whoa!'
E
I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.'
A E
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do..but there ain't no
E...
cure for the summertime blues.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
