Electric Light Orchestra - Rockaria! guitar tab

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA

ROCKARIA!

(new world record)

D / /Bm / / F#m / A7

(Quasi Opera)

(rock boogie)

D

Just got back from the down town

Come on I'll show you how to sing the

Palais where the music was so sweet it

blues now baby come on ov er

knocked me right back in the alley

you got nothin to lose-

G7 D

I'm ready yeah yeah I'm ready

Are you ready hey hey are you ready

A Bm

Wo wo wo I'm ready and I'm really

Oo oo oo are you ready I wanna show

F#m Em A

gonna rock tonight-

you how to rock and roll

D

sweet little lady sings like a song bird

now listen here baby she said to me you

and she sings the opera like you ain't

just meet me at the opera house at quar-

G7

never heard but she ain't ready

-ter to three cause I'm ready

D

no no no she ain't ready no no no she

yeah yeah yeah I'm ready woo ho hoo I'm

Bm F#m A7

ain't ready and she ain't gonna rock

ready I'm gonna show you how to sing

D

and roll

the blues

Em A Em

she's sweet on Wagner I think she'd die

A Em

for Beethoven she loves the way

A Em

Puccini lays down a tune and Verdi's

A

always creepin from her room.

D Bm F#m A7

Ah- /Ah- /Ah- /Ah-

D Em7

We were reelin and a rockin all through

D/F#

the night yeah we were rockin at the

G

Opera House until the break of light

D

and the orchestra were playin all Chuck

Em7 D/F#

Berry's greatest tunes and the singers in

G

the chorus all got off on singin blues

D Em7 D/F#

and as the night grew older everybody

G D Em7

was as one the people on the streets

D/F# G

came runnin into join in song just to

D Em7 D/F#

hear the opera singer singin rock and roll

G D Em7

so pure I thought I saw the Mayor there

D/F# G

but I wasn't really sure

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but it's al - right - Oo -