I Couldn't Spell @#$@$:Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs.
#120 on BB Hot 100 in 1968 on MGM Records.

INTRO:  E
SPOKEN:(Old skinny-legged thing..gonna send you back to
        High-School.)

#1.
E                                A                E
Drew a mustache on your picture..threw your ring away.
      A                        E
I'd a wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell @#$@$..
    E          B        E               B        E
and that's all I got to say..that's all I got to say.

#2.
E                                         A              E
When I found out you'd been untrue..not a minute did I delay.
      A                        E
I'd a wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell @#$@$..
    E          B        E               B        E   E7
and that's all I got to say..that's all I got to say.

BRIDGE:
  A                                 E
I even went to where we used to go, outside of town.
  F#                                           B
I found the tree where we carved our names and chopped that 
                B7
jive thing down.

#3.
  E                         A               E
I burned the tie you gimme..never dug it anyway.
      A                        E
I'd a wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell @#$@$..
    E          B        E               B        E
and that's all I got to say..that's all I got to say.

BRIDGE:
    A                             E
I'm gonna do everything I can..to get even with you.
  F#                                             B
I started today, when I wrote your name down..in thirty-four 

telephone booths.

#3.
  E                         A               E
I burned the tie you gimme..never dug it anyway.
      A                        E
I'd a wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell @#$@$..
    E          B        E               B        E
and that's all I got to say..that's all I got to say.


OUTRO:SPOKEN:

(Dirty rotten @#$%&*@# skinny-legged @!#$%&*+*&%$#@..)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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