ROCKARIA!
(read it: “rock-ah-ree-ah”)
Electric Light Orchestra (New World Record)
NOTE: The small letters indicate notes, not chords
D
Weit
Bm
hinter in die ferne
F#m
man hört, man hört
A7
die Musik
/D
D
Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweet
It knocked me right back in the alley
G7
I'm ready
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready
A Bm
Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm ready
F#m Em F#5 - G5 - A
And I'm really gonna rock tonight
D
Sweet little lady sings, like a songbird
And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard
G7
But she ain't ready
D
No, no, no, she ain't ready
Bm
No, no, no, she ain't ready
F#m A7 D (f f e e D D b b f f e e D D)
And she ain't gonna rock & roll
Em A (A A b D f#) Em
She's sweet on Wagner
A (A A b D f#) Em
I think she'd die for Beethoven
A (A A b D f#) Em
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
A (A A b D D b)
And Verdi's always creeping from her room
D
Weit
Bm
hinter in die ferne
F#m
man hört, man hört
A7
die Musik
/D
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/e/electric_light_orchestra/rockaria_crd_ver_2.html ]
D
Come on I'll show you how to sing the blues
Now baby, come on over over, you got nothin' to lose
G7
Are you ready?
D
Hey, hey, hey, are you ready?
A7
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready?
Bm F#m Em F#5 - G5 - A
I wanna show you how to rock and roll
D
Now listen here baby she, said to me
Just meet me at the opera house at quarter to three
G7
Cause I'm ready
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready
Bm
Woo, hoo, hoo, I'm ready
F#m A7 D (f f e e D D b b f f e e D D)
I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues
N.C (uhh)
She's sweet on Wagner
(uhuhh) (D D G6add9) Em
I think she'd die for Beethoven
Em (Em F#5 G5) A (A A b D f#) Em
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
(Em F#5 G5) A (A A b D D b)
And Verdi's always creeping from her room
D Bm F#m A7 _
Faaaar far away the music i-i-is playing | both
Oh far far away The music is... Playin' _|
D Em7
Well we were reelin' and rockin' all through the night
D/F# G
Ya we were rockin at the opera house until the break of light
D Em7
And the orchestra was playin' all Chuck Berry's greatest tunes
D/F# G
And the singers in the chorus all got off on them singin' blues
D Em7 D/F# G
And as the night grew older everybody was as one
D Em7 D/F# G
The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song
D5 E5 F#5 G
Just to hearing the opera singers singing rock and roll so pure
D5 E5 F#5 G
I thought I saw the mayor there, But I wasn't really sure
D Bm F#m A7 D
But it's al- right
(ohh ohh ah Ah Uhhh)
