High School USA:Tommy Facenda.
#30 R&B abd #28 on BB Hot 100 on
LEGRAND And ATLANTIC Records in
1959. (Facenda was a member of Gene
Vincent's Blue Caps.)
INTRO:
C F
High school U.S.A...High school U.S.A...High school U.S.A..
C G7 F C
High school U.S.A..(aaaahhh-aaahhh)..High school U.S.A.
#1.
C
Come Friday noon about a half past three..(High school U.S.A.)
I drop my books and my misery..(High school U.S.A.)
F
Stroll up and down through the soda shop..(High school U.S.A.)
C
Drop a coin in the old jukebox..(High school U.S.A.)
#2.
G F C
Well, now looking all around what did I see?..every school kid
there could ever be.
C
They come from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Boston, too..New Orleans,
San Diego and old St. Lou.
F C
Cleveland, Portland, and L.A., Fort Worth, Charlotte and Frisco Bay.
G C
Detroit, Newark and Memphis too..well, I wanna do the High school
bop with you.
INTERLUDE:SAX: C F C G C
#3.
C
Well, come Saturday morning they were still going strong..(High school
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U.S.A.)
C
They've been rocking and a-rolling all night long..(High school U.S.A.)
F
No time to study on their ABC's..(High school U.S.A.)
C
Mmm, they're getting their lessons on the birds and the bees..
(High school U.S.A.)
G F C
Yeah, all across the floor they're doing the hop..everybody's doing that
High school bop.
#4.
C
They come from Dallas, Cincinnati and good old Philly..Houston, Raleigh,
and Kansas City.
F C
Miami, Baltimore and Washington..Norfolk, Atlanta and Charleston.
G F
Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tulsa, too.
C
Well, I wanna do the High school bop with you.
#5.
C
There was St. Paul, Nashville and San Antone..New York, Hartford, and
Oklahome.
F C
Camden, Durham, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Tampa, Minneapolis.
G F C
New Orleans, Columbus, Seattle, too..they all wanna do the High school
bop with you.
OUTRO:
C F
(High school U.S.A.)..(High school U.S.A.)..mmmm, look out..(High school
C G F C
U.S.A.)..(High school U.S.A.)..aaaaah-aaahhh....(Fade.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
