Roll Over Beethoven (cover)

Roll Over Beethoven!

Here is my dirty swamp rock version of a classic tune.
I should have changed the lyrics to,
“Roll Over Chuck Berry and tell Tom Petty the News!”
(lyrics)
I’m gonna write a little letter,
gonna mail it to my local DJ
It’s a rockin’ rhythm record
I want my jockey to play
Roll Over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today

You know, my temperature’s risin’
Β the jukebox blows a fuse
My heart’s beatin’ rhythm
and my soul keeps singin’ the blues
Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news

I got the rockin’ pneumonia,
I need a shot of rhythm and blues
I think I’m rollin’ arthritis
sittin’ down by the rhythm review
Roll Over Beethoven rockin’ in two by two

Well, if you feel you like it
go get your lover, then reel and rock it
Roll it over and move on up just
a trifle further and reel and rock it,
roll it over,
Roll Over Beethoven rockin’ in two by two

Well, early in the mornin’ I’m a givin’ you a warnin’
don’t you step on my blue suede shoes
Hey diddle diddle, I am playin’ my fiddle,
ain’t got nothin’ to lose
Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news

You know she wiggles like a glow worm,
dance like a spinnin’ top
She got a crazy partner,
oughta see ’em reel and rock
Long as she got a dime the music will never stop

Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues

(I could have very well said “Roll Over Chuck Berry and tell Huey Lewis the News!”)

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