Lyrics - The Story Of Bo Diddley by Animals

Now lets hear the story of
Bo
Diddley and the
Rock n
Roll scene in general
Bo
Diddley was born
Elias
Mc
Daniels in a place called
Mc
Coom,
Missississipi about 1926
He moved to
Chicago about 1938
Where his name was eventually changed to
Bo
Diddley
He practiced the guitar everyday and sometimes into the night
Till his papa's hair began to turn white
His
Pa said "
Son, listen hear,
I know
You can stay but that guitar has just gotta go"
So he pulled his hat down over his eyes
Headed out for them
Western
Skies
I think
Bob
Dylan said that
He hit
New
York
City
He began to play at the
Apollo in
Harlem
Good scene there everybody raving
One day, one night, came a
Cadillac with four head lights
Came a man with a big, long, fat, cigar said, "
C'mere son,
I'm gonna make you a star"
Bo
Diddley said, "
Uh..whats in it for me?"
Man said, "
Shut your mouth son , play the guitar and you just wait and see"
Well, that boy made it, he made it real big
And so did the rest of the rock n roll scene along with him
And a white guy named
Johnny
Otis took
Bo
Diddleys rhythm
He changed it into hand-jive and it went like this
In a little old country town one day
A little old country band began to play
Add two guitars and a beat up saxophone
When the drummer said, boy, those cats begin to roam
Oh baby oh we oh oh
Ooh la la that rock and roll
Ya hear me oh we oh oh
Ooh la la that rock and roll
Then in the
U.
S. music scene there was big changes made
Due to circumstances beyond our control such as payola
The rock n roll scene died after two years of solid rock and you got discs like, ah...
Take good care of my baby
Please don't ever make her blue and so forth
About, ah, one year later in a place called
Liverpool in
England
Four young lads with mop haircuts began to sing stuff like, ah...
It's been a hard days night and
I;ve been working like a dog and so on
In a place called
Richmond in
Surrey, whay down in the deep south
They got guys with long hair down their back singing
I wanna be your lover baby
I wanna be your man yeah and all that jazz
Now we've doing this number,
Bo
Diddley, for quite some time now
Bo
Diddley visited this country last year
We were playing at the
Club
A
Gogo in
Newcastle, our home town
The doors opened one night and to our surprise walked in the man himself,
Bo
Diddley
Along with him was
Jerome
Green, his maraca man, and the
Duchess, his gorgeous sister
And a we were doing this number
Along with them came the
Rolling
Stones, the
Mersey
Beats,
They're all standing around diggin' it
And
I overheard
Bo
Diddley talkin'
He turned around to
Jermone
Green
And he said, "
Hey,
Jerome?
What do you think these guys doin' our..our material?"
Jerome said, "
Uh, where's the bar, man?
Please show me to the bar..."
He turned around the
Duchess
And he said, "
Hey
Duchess...what do you think of these young guys doin' our material?"
She said, "
I don't know.
I only came across here to see the changin' of the guards and all that jazz."
Well,
Bo
Diddley looked up and said to me, with half closed eyes and a smile,
He said "
Man," took off his glasses,
He said, "
Man, that sure is the biggest load of rubbish
I ever heard in my life..."
Hey
Bo
Diddley
Oh
Bo
Diddley
Yeah
Bo
Diddley
Oh
Bo
Diddley
Yeah
Bo
Diddley

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