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CLIFF RICHARD: FORTY DAYS (Chuck Berry) (21 Today - 1961) 4/4 - (+/-) 184

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQUQd9P6RM

|%   |: Repeat the previous Chord and Measure of 4-counts.
(    ): Backing Vocals
n.c.  : No Chord
/     : Break(s)

INTRO (slow vocals):

n.c.
I'm gonna give you, forty days,
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to get back.

VERSE 1:
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I'm gonna call up the gypsy woman,
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on the tele-phone.
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I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
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that'll be the very thing that I do do.
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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
         |A    |A
in forty days.

CHORUS 1:
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Yeah, forty days, (forty days),
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forty days, (forty days).
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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
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in forty days (yeah, forty days).
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I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
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that'll be the very thing that I do do.
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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
         |A    |A
in forty days.

VERSE 2:
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Well I was talking to the judge in private,
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early this morning.
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When the sheriff came along and took me,
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without any warning.
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He said I'm setting the charge up, to get ya,
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that'll be the very thing that'll hang ya.
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I'm gonna see that she'll be back home,
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         |A    |A
in forty days.

CHORUS 2:
            |A           |%
Yeah, forty days, (forty days),
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forty days, (forty days).
          |A                      |%
I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
         |E7               |%
in forty days (yeah, forty days).
          |A                  |A7
I'm gonna tell the world wide who do,
               |D7               |%
that'll be the very thing that I do do.
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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
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in forty days.

SOLO:

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VERSE 3, like VERSE 2, plus:

CHORUS, like CHORUS 1, plus:

OUTRO:
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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
               /
         |A    |A
in forty days.

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I'm gonne see that she'll be back home,
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         |D7    |A
in forty da  -  ys, yeah.