From: <p.balm@cwctv.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:57:16 +0000


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
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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
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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
          D         Bm   F#m  A7    D
but it's al   -   right   -         Oo  -