Top Forty News Weather And Sports
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Intro: D A D A
D A D
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
A D A
news, weather and sports.)
#1.
D
Last night I was getting my homework up and
A
listening to my radio.
A
I was kinda sleepy but was writing my theme while
D
I was digging my DJ Show.
D
It was Top 40, news, weather and sports and I was
G
writing on Current Affairs.
G D
Next morning when I got up to read my theme, you
A D
should have seen all the classroom stare.
#2.
A D
Cause I had Lumumba doing the Rhumba to the tune
of the Blue Tango.
A D
I had Abominable Snowman hunters a-bringing in Fidel
Castro.
#3.
Db D G
I had President Ike, up at the mike, singing, 'Are You
Lonesome Tonight.'
E Gbm
I had the U.N. lost in a snow out west and Khrushchev
F E
squealing, 'You talk too much!'
#2.
A
And there was Brenda Lee running track for State and
D Bm A
there was Kennedy giving a station break.
G A
And the guys down at Canaveral were shoveling snow..
D A D
hollering, let's go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa,
A D A D
whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..whoa, whoa!!
Chorus:
D A D
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
A D
news, weather and sports.)
#3.
A
And I had Mickey Mantle riding on a camel through the
D
rains down in Death Valley.
A D
I had Mr. Nehru, at the weather bureau, giving the humidity.
G D
And I had Lolita, humming mighty sweet-a, New Orleans
off key, key, key.
E A E D
Rockefeller, singing a cappella, 'Save that little 'ole dance
A
for me.
OUTRO:
D A D
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
A D
news, weather and sports.)
D A D
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
A D
news, weather and sports.)...(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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