Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool:the Rays.
(Daddy Cool was the flip side
 of their hit 'Silhouettes on
 CAMEO Records. It also made the Top 40
 in 1957.)

INTRO:SPOKEN: Ebm B

B             Bb              Ab       Db
I saw a crazy chick a-running down the street.
          Eb   B                    E
I said, a-whoo pretty baby, why the ragged beat?
    Eb    E           Ab                Abm7
She said, wow, what a square, don't you dig 
    Ab
the scene?
Gb           Ab          E     B
Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine.
       Eb         Cm          Gb         Eb
(Daddy who? Daddy Cool! Daddy who? Daddy Cool!)

CHORUS:
      B           Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)
      F           Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)
      Bb          Bb7
Daddy Cool, Daddy Coooool..
      Gm7         Eb          Ebm       Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha)

#1.
Eb
She led me by the hand (cool daddy, cool)
            Cm       Eb
Down to the railroad track (cool daddy, cool)
                    Bb
There in a tin roof honnnnky tonk,
                     Eb
Cool Daddy shook the shack (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha.)

#2.
Eb
The joint was dim and dark (cool daddy, cool)
           Cm      Eb
Except for one spotlight (cool daddy, cool)
               Bb
a-shining onto frantic hands..that rock like 
     Eb          Bb        Eb
dyna-mite (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha)

CHORUS:
Eb
They had it..
      Gb          Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)

They had it..
      Bb          Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)
Eb
They had it..
      Bb          Bb7
Daddy Cool, Daddy Coooool..
      Gm7         Eb          Ebm       Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha)

BRIDGE:
 Eb
(Rock Cool Daddy, honky tonkin' Daddy..
 
 Rock Cool Daddy, honky tonkin' Daddy..
 Ab        Eb     Ab            Ebm
 Rock Cool Daddy, honky tonkin' Daddy..
           Eb
 Rock Cool Daddy, honky tonkin' Daddy..
 Bb        Gb     Ab            B
 Rock Cool Daddy, honky tonkin' Daddy..
 Eb
 Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock..


INTERLUDE: Eb Ebm Eb Ab Gb Ab Eb Ebm Bb Ab Eb

#3.
Eb                           Fm     Eb
The rhythm was so gone (cool daddy, cool)
        Cm      Eb
I said, come on chick, dance (cool daddy, cool)
         Gb       Bb   Db    Bb
And as I held her innnnnn my arms..
  Eb     Ab       Eb           Ab        Eb
I knew I found ro-mance (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha).

#4.
Eb
Then when they closed the club (cool daddy, cool)
            Ebm  Eb
I walked my baby home (cool daddy, cool)
          Bbm     Bb                         Eb
But now I see her every night cause she says I'm 
               Gb        Eb
her own (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha!)

CHORUS:
      B           Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)
      Bb          Eb
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (cool, daddy, cool)
      F           Bb    Bb7
Daddy Cool, Daddy Coooool..
      Gm7         Eb          Bb        Eb            
Daddy Cool, Daddy Cool (ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha, 

ah-ha-ha!)



A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.