#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: zeroy@netcom.com (Roy M. Randall) This might just be the greatest dumb garage-rock song ever written. Sometimes you hear people talk about 'believing in rock n' roll'. You have to beleive in something to sing this song with a straight face. I prefer to sing it with an adolescent snarl. SHAKE SOME ACTION Jordan/Wilson recorded by The Flamin' Groovies, 1976 |:A Bm |G Bm |A Bm |G Bm :| |:A |G |D |A :| Bm A D Dsus4 D I will find a way Bm A D Dsus4 D To get to you some day. G A D Dsus4 D Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah. G A Bm A Now can't you hear me call? A Bm G Bm A Bm Shake some action's what I need G Bm A Bm To let me bust out at full speed. G Bm A G I'm sure that's all you need D To make it all right. |A |G |D |A | It's taken me so long To get where I belong Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah. For I will make you pay. (refrain) (guitar solo over: |:Bm |G |D |A |Bm |G |D |A :| |:A |G |D |A :| If you don't dig what I say Then I will go away. And I won't come back this again. No. 'Cause I don't need a friend. (refrain) (guitar solo again) -- Roy M. Randall, FG | I am not responsible for the above... Inconsequential Systems, Inc. | SOCIETY IS TO BLAME! zeroy@netcom.com |