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

INTRO: A#
A# (x1333x@1)                        FOwww! (133211@1)Let me get up on this doctored

up thunder-ticket.

#1.
    A#I'm (x1333x@1)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 (x43121@3)goin' to San Francisco..my reputation's

been made, yeah.
A#When (x1333x@1)Boston censored me..I knew I'd made the grade.

CHORUS:
                D#Cause (x43121@3)I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#know (x1333x@1)how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F (133211@1)                     D#I'm (x43121@3)weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A# (x1333x@1)                          Fya (133211@1)see? (banned in Boston) yeah, yeah.

#2.
         A#I've (x1333x@1)had twenty different landlords in twenty different

weeks, yeah.
A#I'm (x1333x@1)proud to say that my best friends are Boston's biggest

freaks.
D#All (x43121@3)the girls keep comin' around..they hear I'm so far out, 
      A#yeah..hangin' (x1333x@1)'round and whisperin'..'Sammy, what's this

all about?'

CHORUS:
                D#Well, (x43121@3)I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#know (x1333x@1)how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F (133211@1)                     D#I'm (x43121@3)weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A# (x1333x@1)                         
ya see? (banned in Boston)..
F (133211@1)                          A#C'mon, (x1333x@1)big baby, get on with me..grrrrrrr..oh-oh.

(INTERLUDE:) A# D#

#3.
A#Your (x1333x@1)father, your mother, your brother, don't like me..

your sister thinks I'm kinda cool, yeah.
A#The (x1333x@1)only way I'll play your game is by breakin' one or

two of your rules.
      D#I'm (x43121@3)a literary genus, as you can plainly see, yeah.
  A#I (x1333x@1)wrote you simple lyrics sayin'..'Ain't you proud of me?!'

CHORUS:
                D#Well, (x43121@3)I've been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you 
                   A#know (x1333x@1)how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well, 
    F (133211@1)                     D#I'm (x43121@3)weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can't 
   A# (x1333x@1)                     F (133211@1) 
ya see? (banned in Boston)..

OUTRO:
F (133211@1)                 A#C'mon (x1333x@1)baby..get on..don't forget your brain-bucket, now..
 A# (x1333x@1)                                D#(banned (x43121@3)in Boston..banned in Boston..banned in Boston)..
 A#(banned (x1333x@1)in Boston)ready to go? rrrrrr, owww!..
 F(banned (133211@1)in Boston)..San Francisco here we come..(Fade.)

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.