Bop-A-Lena:Ronnie Self.
#68 on COLUMBIA Records in 1958.
(Pure Rock-a-Billy.)

INTRO:
C                                             
Oop-scooby-dooby-Lena, go-gal-go..
    
CHORUS:
C                                                        
Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..
                      F                    C                                 
oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.
G7                              C                                           
She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-

dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.
           
#1. 
C                                                                         
Well, the school bells are ringin', everybody 

went out..goin' to the shack, gonna shake it all about.
F                                                                      
Bop-a-Lena lookin' like a rose in the wild..
C                                                    
man, I dig that freaky juvenile.
G7                                                                           
When she gets a-goin' she's a real cool chick..
C                                          
she do The Bop like a pogo-stick.
            
CHORUS:
C                                                        
Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..
                      F                    C                                 
oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.
G7                              C                                           
She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-

dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.

           
(INTERLUDE:) C F C G7 C


#2.
C
I got my patent-leather shoes on my hound-dog feet..
                                              F
me and bop-a-Lena gonna walk the beat..to the whole 
                             C
jukebox in the be-bop shack..when we get a-goin', gonna 

Ball The Jack.
G7                                 C
Bop-a-Lena got two feet that talk..look at her go on The

Camel-Walk.

CHORUS:
C                                                        
Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..
                      F                    C                                 
oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.
G7                              C                                           
She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-

dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.


(INTERLUDE:) C F C G7 C


OUTRO:
C                                                        
Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..
                      F                    C                                 
oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.
G7                              C                                           
She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-

dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.
           
 
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.