Searchin'
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Searchin':The Coasters.
#30 in UK and #3 in USA in 1957.
INTRO:
C
(Gonna find her)..(Gonna find her)
(Gonna find her)..(Gonna find her)
C
Yeah, I've been searchin'..I been searchin'..
Oh, yeah, searchin' every which a-way, yay-yay.
F
Oh, yeah, searchin', I'm searchin'..
C
Searchin' every which a-way, yay-yay.
G7
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie..
F C
You know I'll bring her in someday.
(Gonna find her)..(Gonna find her)
#1.
C
Well, now if I have to swim a river..
you know I will.
And if I have to climb a mountain..
you know I will.
And if she's hiding up, on Blueberry Hill..
C7
Am I gonna find her, child? You know I will.
[Refrão] F
Cause I've been searching, oh yeah, searching.
C
My goodness, child, searching every which a-way, yea-yea.
G7
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie..
F C
You know I'll bring her in some day.
#2.
C
Well, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade got nothing, child, on me.
Sergeant Friday, Charlie Chan, and Boston Blackie.
No matter where she's hiding, she's gonna hear me comin'..
Cause I'm gonna walk right down that street
C7
like Bulldog Drummond..
[Refrão] F
Cause I've been searching, oh yeah, searching.
C
My goodness,child, searching every which a-way, yea-yea.
G7
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie..
F C
You know I'll bring her in some day.
OUTRO:
G7
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie..
F
You know I'll bring her in some day.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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