High School USA:Tommy Facenda.
#30 R&B abd #28 on BB Hot 100 on
LEGRAND And ATLANTIC Records in
1959. (Facenda was a member of Gene 
Vincent's Blue Caps.)

INTRO:
C                                       F
High school U.S.A...High school U.S.A...High school U.S.A..
C                   G7      F        C
High school U.S.A..(aaaahhh-aaahhh)..High school U.S.A.

#1.
C
Come Friday noon about a half past three..(High school U.S.A.)

I drop my books and my misery..(High school U.S.A.)
F
Stroll up and down through the soda shop..(High school U.S.A.)
C
Drop a coin in the old jukebox..(High school U.S.A.)

#2.
G                            F                C
Well, now looking all around what did I see?..every school kid

there could ever be.
C
They come from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Boston, too..New Orleans, 

San Diego and old St. Lou.
F                              C
Cleveland, Portland, and L.A., Fort Worth, Charlotte and Frisco Bay.
G                                        C
Detroit, Newark and Memphis too..well, I wanna do the High school 

bop with you.


INTERLUDE:SAX: C F C G C

#3.
C
Well, come Saturday morning they were still going strong..(High school 

U.S.A.)
C
They've been rocking and a-rolling all night long..(High school U.S.A.)
F
No time to study on their ABC's..(High school U.S.A.)
C
Mmm, they're getting their lessons on the birds and the bees..

(High school U.S.A.)
G                                  F              C
Yeah, all across the floor they're doing the hop..everybody's doing that

High school bop.

#4.
C
They come from Dallas, Cincinnati and good old Philly..Houston, Raleigh, 

and Kansas City.
F                                C
Miami, Baltimore and Washington..Norfolk, Atlanta and Charleston.
G                         F
Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tulsa, too.
        C
Well, I wanna do the High school bop with you.

#5.
C
There was St. Paul, Nashville and San Antone..New York, Hartford, and 

Oklahome.
F                             C
Camden, Durham, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Tampa, Minneapolis.
G                      F                      C
New Orleans, Columbus, Seattle, too..they all wanna do the High school 

bop with you.

OUTRO:
 C                                                           F
(High school U.S.A.)..(High school U.S.A.)..mmmm, look out..(High school 
          C                    G      F     C
U.S.A.)..(High school U.S.A.)..aaaaah-aaahhh....(Fade.)


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.