Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs - Banned In Boston Chords & Tabs

 

Banned In Boston Chords & Tabs

Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs Chords & Tabs

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Banned In Boston Chords

   
Banned In Boston:Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs.
#117 on BB Hot 100 on MGM Records in 1967.

INTRO: A#
A#                          F
Owww! Let me get up on this doctored 

up thunder-ticket.

#1.
    A#
I'm rollin' down the turnpike for a night on 

Boston's town, yeah.

I didn't please the Boys In Blue with the way 

I carried on.
    D#
I'm goin' to San Francisco..my reputation's 

been made, yeah.
A#
When Boston censored me..I knew I'd made the grade.

CHORUS:
                D#
Cause I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A#                            F
ya see? (banned in Boston) yeah, yeah.

#2.
         A#
I've had twenty different landlords in twenty different 

weeks, yeah.
A#
I'm proud to say that my best friends are Boston's biggest 

freaks.
D#
All the girls keep comin' around..they hear I'm so far out, 
      A#
yeah..hangin' 'round and whisperin'..'Sammy, what's this 

all about?'
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CHORUS:
                D#
Well, I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A#                           
ya see? (banned in Boston)..
F                            A#
C'mon, big baby, get on with me..grrrrrrr..oh-oh.


(INTERLUDE:) A# D#

#3.
A#
Your father, your mother, your brother, don't like me..

your sister thinks I'm kinda cool, yeah.
A#
The only way I'll play your game is by breakin' one or 

two of your rules.
      D#
I'm a literary genus, as you can plainly see, yeah.
  A#
I wrote you simple lyrics sayin'..'Ain't you proud of me?!'

CHORUS:
                D#
Well, I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F                       D#
I'm weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A#                       F   
ya see? (banned in Boston).. 

OUTRO:
F                   A#
C'mon baby..get on..don't forget your brain-bucket, now..
 A#                                  D#
(banned in Boston..banned in Boston..banned in Boston)..
 A#
(banned in Boston)ready to go? rrrrrr, owww!..
 F
(banned in Boston)..San Francisco here we come..(Fade.) 


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.