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Maybellene

(Chuck Berry)


Copyright Arc Music Corp.

Original by Chuck Berry in 1955


Live performance - August 20, 1955 - Municipal Auditorium - Shreveport, Louisiana

 WPA5 2536
1983 LP RCA LH3061 Elvis... The Beginning Years





* Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do.


As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a coup de ville.
A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road,
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford.
The cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five,
She's bumper to bumber rollin' side by side.


* Repeat


The cadillac moved to a hundred and four
got hot and wouldn't do no more
It got cloudy and started to rain
Tooted my horn in the passing lane
The rain water blowin all under my hood
I knew that was doin' my motor no good


* Repeat


* Repeat


The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound.
The Cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Mabellene at the top of the hill.


* Repeat
You've started back doing the things you used to do.
...................................

Full version of Chuck Berry





* Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do.


As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a coup de ville.
A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road,
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford.
The cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five,
She's bumper to bumber rollin' side by side.


* Repeat


Pink in the mirror on top of the hill,
It's just like swallowin' up a medicine pill.
First thing I saw that Cadillac grille
Doin' a hundred and ten gallopin' over that hill.
Offhill curve, a downhill strecth,
Me and that Cadillac neck by neck.


* Repeat


The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford,
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more.
It then got cloudy and it started to rain,
I tooted my horn for a passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood,
I knew that was doin' my motor good.


* Repeat


The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound.
The Cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Mabellene at the top of the hill.


* Repeat