• Song:

    Shake Some Action

  • Artist:

    Flamin Groovies

  • Album:

    Grease

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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 (x24432@1)|G  Bm (x24432@1)|A  Bm (x24432@1)|G  Bm (x24432@1):|

|:A      |G      |D      |A      :|


Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)    D (xx0232@1)Dsus (xx0233@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
I will find a way
    Bm (x24432@1)   A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)Dsus (xx0233@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
To get to you some day.
        G (320003@1)           A (x02220@1)            D (xx0232@1)  Dsus (xx0233@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah.
     G (320003@1)       A (x02220@1)     Bm (x24432@1)  ANow (x02220@1)can't you hear me call?


A (x02220@1)  Bm (x24432@1)   G (320003@1)     Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)  BmShake (x24432@1)some action's what I need
           G (320003@1)     Bm (x24432@1)     A (x02220@1)  BmTo (x24432@1)let me bust out at full speed.
      G (320003@1)        Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)  GI'm (320003@1)sure that's all you need
                 DTo (xx0232@1)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)


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