(She’s)
Sexy + 17 (1983)
E
(spoken): Hey, babe, I don’t feel like goin‘ to school no more. Me neither !
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They can’t make
you go. No you daddyo, yeah !
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1. I ain’t goin’ to
school, it starts too early for me,
A
well,
listen, man, I ain’t goin’
to school no more,
E
it
starts much, much too early for me,
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E
I don’t care about readin’, writin’, ‘rithmetic or history.
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I’m gonna
walk to the corner and meet my little Marie,
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I’m gonna
walk to the corner and meet my little Marie,
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A
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well,
she’s the only girl in this whole wide world who understands me.
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Well, she’s sexy and seventeen,
my little rock’n roll queen,
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acts
a little bit obscene, gotta let off a little steam,
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dig that sound, shake it around,
you’re mine, mine, mine.
E
2. Johnny and Eddie and me and Jimmy and Jack,
A
E
are gonna do a little number on the teacher when she turns her
back,
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A
E
we’re
gonna cut out of class, meet the girls by the
railroad track.
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Well, every Friday night
there’s a band that you gotta hear,
A
E
just
a dollar to get in and twenty-five cents a beer,
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they
play rock and roll music like it hasn’t been rocked for years.
+ CHORUS
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A
3. Well, when I hear that rockin’ beat, I
can’t sit still, up out of my seat,
E
come
on, babe, let’s jump round your feet,
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can’t
learn nothing in school, they don’t teach you on the street.
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A E
Wo-oh-oh,
baby I like your style, wo-oh-oh-oh-oh, baby, I like
your style,
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you
don’t care what the other kids say, you go real wild !
- E
Well, you’re sexy and
seventeen, my little rock’n roll
queen,
A - E
act a
little bit obscene, gotta let off a little steam,
B7 A7 E
dig that sound, shake it around,
you’re mine, mine, mine, mine.
B7 A E
+ Dig that sound and
shake it around, you’re mine, mine, mine, mine !
B7 A E
Dig that sound and shake it
around, you’re mine, mine, mine !
(The Stray Cats)