Almost Eighteen:Roy Orbison.
Recorded on RCA in 1959. Didn't chart.
Too bad, because it's a good song.
(Acoustic guitar.)

INTRO: A

#1.
AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen a lot of sugar and lace.
       D (xx0232@1)                    AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen with an angel face.
             EShe (022100@1)says I'm her kind of guy..
         D (xx0232@1)                       Eand (022100@1)if I leave her she'll die..uh, huh.

#2.
A (x02220@1)               
I'll flip upside down and all the way around.

I'm acting like a clown because I think I've found,
    Dthe (xx0232@1)cream of the crop, I know I'll never stop..
           A (x02220@1)                                    EI'll (022100@1)go on lovin' my baby, she's a grown up lady, now.

CHORUS:
DFull (xx0232@1)skirt, don't flirt, ballerina shoes..
B (x2444x@1)                      Epin (022100@1)slips, two lips that never sing the blues.

#3.
       AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen, a ribbon in her hair.
       D (xx0232@1)                           AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen, my baby's young and fair.
            E (022100@1)                        DUh-uh, (xx0232@1)I'll never let her go..because, oh, 
                  EI (022100@1)love her so, oh-oh.

#4.
            AShe's (x02220@1)gonna have her birthday then we'll run away.

We're gonna find a preacher, let him be the teacher.
      DGonna (xx0232@1)Honeymoon all through the month of June..
        A (x02220@1)                                           Edarlin' (022100@1)we'll have time until we're ninety nine, yea, yea.

CHORUS:
DWedding (xx0232@1)bells gonna ring, we're gonna be together.
B (x2444x@1)                           EI (022100@1)love her, she loves me, our love'll live forever.

#5.
       AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen, she's a swingin' queen.
       D (xx0232@1)                         AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen, oh, what a lovely dream.
          E (022100@1)                   D (xx0232@1)                EUntil (022100@1)the end of time my baby's mine, all mine, uh-huh.
       AAlmost (x02220@1)Eighteen..

OUTRO:
AAlmost (x02220@1)eighteen..almost eighteen..almost eighteen..(Fade.)



A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.