There's no stoppin' the cretins from hoppin'
You gotta keep it beatin' for all the hoppin' cretins.
Cretin! Cretin!
I'm gonna go for a whirl with my cretin girl
My feet won't stop doin' the Cretin Hop.
Cretin! Cretin!
NC EAE D
1-2-3-4 Cretins wanna hop some more
NC EAE D EAE D
4-5-6-7 All good cretins go to heaven.
There's no stoppin'...
I'm gonna go...
1-2-3-4...
ROCKAWAY BEACH
Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum
The sun is out and I want some.
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
Up on the roof, out on the street
Down in the playground the hot concrete
Busride is too slow
They blast out the disco on the radio
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach (2x)
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
Chewing out a rhythm...
Up on the roof...
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach... (1x)
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach... (2x)
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh I love you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh I love you
I do, I do (2x)
But I told her why we just can't make it
I want you still but just can't take it
The time has come we oughta break it
Someone had to pay the price
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh it's over
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh over
It's true, it's true (2x)
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
But times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
But times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price.
LOCKET LOVE
Lovely lovely locket love
You could use a little of
Hang a chain around you
You're hangin' too
Hang on a little bit longer
Hang on you're a goner
Lovely lovely locket love
Cause a picture never does
Try to expose you
For what you put me through
Hang on...
Never never can tell
How hard you fell
Lovely lovely locket 'cause
The best poison of
Lovely lovely locket love
You got a pocket of
Lovely little tricks you do
Now I'm hangin' too
Hang on...
Never never can tell...
Lovely lovely locket love
Tou could use a little of
Hang a chain around you
You're hangin' too
Hang on...
I DON'T CARE
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care about this world
I don't care about that girl
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care...
I don't care I don't care
I don't care I don't care
I don't care I don't care
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care about these words
I don't care about that girl
I don't care
SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now
They've got their surfboards
And they're going to the discotheque a go go
But she just couldn't stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
She's a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Well the kids...
Sheena is a punk rocker...
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now. (repeat & fade out)
WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me mom and daddy. (2x)
Sitting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines.
We ain't got no friends
Our troubles never end
No Christmas cards to send
Daddy likes men.
Daddy's telling lies
Baby's eating flies
Mommy's on pills
Baby's got the chills.
I'm friends with the President
I'm friends with the Pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling Daddy's dope.
Sitting here in Queens...
We ain't got no friends...
We're a happy family... (repeat & fade out)
TEENAGE LOBOTOMY
NC E F# B E F# B
Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy! (3rd with bass only)
DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I'll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose.
All the girls are in love with me
I'm a teenage lobotomy.
Slugs and snails are after me
DDT keeps me happy
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum.
Gonna get my Ph.D.
I'm a teenage lobotomy.
Lobotomy...
DDT did a job on me...
DO YOU WANNA DANCE?
Do you wanna dance and hold my hand?
Tell me baby I'm your lover man
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?
Well do you wanna dance under the moonlight?
Squeeze me baby all through the night
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you wanna dance under the moonlight... (2x)
Do you do you...
Do you do you... (no final E) (2x)
Do you do you...
I WANNA BE WELL
Yeah, I wanna be well
I wanna be well
I wanna be
I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want (2x)
my
LSD, golly gee,
DDT, wowee!
Daddy's broke
Holy smoke
My future's bleak
Ain't it neat?
Yeah, I wanna be well... (2x)
my LSD...
Yeah, I wanna be well
I wanna be well (4x)
I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING
You better know what you want
You know how little I got
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
You better know...
You think I'm real cute
But who's gonna bring home the loot?
Make up your mind about
Hope you don't doubt, that
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
You better know...
You think I'm...
I can't give you anything. (repeat & fade out)
RAMONA
Hey Johnny, hey Dee Dee
Little Tom and Joey
You know we're goin' over
Sweet sweet little Ramona
You're getting better and better
It's getting easier than ever
Hey you kids in the crowd
You know you like it when the music's loud.
Sweet sweet little Ramona
she always wants to come over
Sweet sweet little Ramona
I think I'll try and phone her
I let her in if you're wondering why
Cause she's a spy for the BBI
I let her in and I started to cry
And then I knew I wanted to die
Oooh, little Ramona. (3x)
Oooh
Sweet sweet little Ramona...
Oooh, little Ramona...
SURFIN' BIRD
NC
Well everybody's heard about the bird
Bird bird bird bird is a word (8x)
Don't you know about the bird
Well everybody knows that the bird is a word
Bird bird bird...
Bird bird bird bird is a word
Well everybody's heard about the bird
Bird bird bird...
Bird bird bird bird is a word
NC
Surfin' bird! Papa-papa-papa...
NC
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow (24x)
Don't you know...
Papa-ooma-mow-mow (repeat & fade out)
WHY IS IT ALWAYS THIS WAY?
uu uu u (2x)
Hey hey hey
Why is it always this way? (2x)
Last time I saw her alive
She was wavin', wavin' bye bye
She was contemplating suicide
Now she's lying in a bottle of formaldehyde.
And oh, I just don't know
Why I can't let her go
Oh I just don't know.
Hey hey hey
Why is it always this way? (2x)
Last time I saw her alive
She was going to the wash and dry
She was outside hitchin' a ride
Now she's lying
In a bottle of formaldehyde.
And oh, I just don't know...
Hey hey hey... (repeat & fade out)
All songs by Ramones except
Do You Wanna Dance? by Freeman
Surfin' Bird by White/Frazier/Harris/Wilson
Chords are mostly 5's but indicating this all the time would be a mess.
They're mostly 'major-like' anyway except for F#5 in Here Today, Gone
Tomorrow, which may even be F#m.
NC means no chord.
Lyrics are from uwp and were sent by Eric Wincentsen.
If you find an error, I'd be glad to hear about it. "
Juha Kivijarvi
juhkivij@utu.fi
You gotta keep it beatin' for all the hoppin' cretins.
Cretin! Cretin!
I'm gonna go for a whirl with my cretin girl
My feet won't stop doin' the Cretin Hop.
Cretin! Cretin!
NC EAE D
1-2-3-4 Cretins wanna hop some more
NC EAE D EAE D
4-5-6-7 All good cretins go to heaven.
There's no stoppin'...
I'm gonna go...
1-2-3-4...
ROCKAWAY BEACH
Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum
The sun is out and I want some.
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
Up on the roof, out on the street
Down in the playground the hot concrete
Busride is too slow
They blast out the disco on the radio
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach (2x)
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
It's not hard, not far to reach
We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.
Chewing out a rhythm...
Up on the roof...
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach... (1x)
Rock Rock Rockaway Beach... (2x)
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh I love you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh I love you
I do, I do (2x)
But I told her why we just can't make it
I want you still but just can't take it
The time has come we oughta break it
Someone had to pay the price
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh it's over
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh over
It's true, it's true (2x)
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
But times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price
And I think of times we were together
As time went on it seemed forever
But times have changed now things are better
Someone had to pay the price.
LOCKET LOVE
Lovely lovely locket love
You could use a little of
Hang a chain around you
You're hangin' too
Hang on a little bit longer
Hang on you're a goner
Lovely lovely locket love
Cause a picture never does
Try to expose you
For what you put me through
Hang on...
Never never can tell
How hard you fell
Lovely lovely locket 'cause
The best poison of
Lovely lovely locket love
You got a pocket of
Lovely little tricks you do
Now I'm hangin' too
Hang on...
Never never can tell...
Lovely lovely locket love
Tou could use a little of
Hang a chain around you
You're hangin' too
Hang on...
I DON'T CARE
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care about this world
I don't care about that girl
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care...
I don't care I don't care
I don't care I don't care
I don't care I don't care
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care (he don't care)
I don't care about these words
I don't care about that girl
I don't care
SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now
They've got their surfboards
And they're going to the discotheque a go go
But she just couldn't stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
She's a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Well the kids...
Sheena is a punk rocker...
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now. (repeat & fade out)
WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me mom and daddy. (2x)
Sitting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines.
We ain't got no friends
Our troubles never end
No Christmas cards to send
Daddy likes men.
Daddy's telling lies
Baby's eating flies
Mommy's on pills
Baby's got the chills.
I'm friends with the President
I'm friends with the Pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling Daddy's dope.
Sitting here in Queens...
We ain't got no friends...
We're a happy family... (repeat & fade out)
TEENAGE LOBOTOMY
NC E F# B E F# B
Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy! (3rd with bass only)
DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I'll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose.
All the girls are in love with me
I'm a teenage lobotomy.
Slugs and snails are after me
DDT keeps me happy
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum.
Gonna get my Ph.D.
I'm a teenage lobotomy.
Lobotomy...
DDT did a job on me...
DO YOU WANNA DANCE?
Do you wanna dance and hold my hand?
Tell me baby I'm your lover man
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?
Well do you wanna dance under the moonlight?
Squeeze me baby all through the night
Oh baby, do you wanna dance?
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you do you do you do you wanna dance
Do you wanna dance under the moonlight... (2x)
Do you do you...
Do you do you... (no final E) (2x)
Do you do you...
I WANNA BE WELL
Yeah, I wanna be well
I wanna be well
I wanna be
I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want (2x)
my
LSD, golly gee,
DDT, wowee!
Daddy's broke
Holy smoke
My future's bleak
Ain't it neat?
Yeah, I wanna be well... (2x)
my LSD...
Yeah, I wanna be well
I wanna be well (4x)
I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING
You better know what you want
You know how little I got
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
You better know...
You think I'm real cute
But who's gonna bring home the loot?
Make up your mind about
Hope you don't doubt, that
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
I can't give you anything.
You better know...
You think I'm...
I can't give you anything. (repeat & fade out)
RAMONA
Hey Johnny, hey Dee Dee
Little Tom and Joey
You know we're goin' over
Sweet sweet little Ramona
You're getting better and better
It's getting easier than ever
Hey you kids in the crowd
You know you like it when the music's loud.
Sweet sweet little Ramona
she always wants to come over
Sweet sweet little Ramona
I think I'll try and phone her
I let her in if you're wondering why
Cause she's a spy for the BBI
I let her in and I started to cry
And then I knew I wanted to die
Oooh, little Ramona. (3x)
Oooh
Sweet sweet little Ramona...
Oooh, little Ramona...
SURFIN' BIRD
NC
Well everybody's heard about the bird
Bird bird bird bird is a word (8x)
Don't you know about the bird
Well everybody knows that the bird is a word
Bird bird bird...
Bird bird bird bird is a word
Well everybody's heard about the bird
Bird bird bird...
Bird bird bird bird is a word
NC
Surfin' bird! Papa-papa-papa...
NC
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow (24x)
Don't you know...
Papa-ooma-mow-mow (repeat & fade out)
WHY IS IT ALWAYS THIS WAY?
uu uu u (2x)
Hey hey hey
Why is it always this way? (2x)
Last time I saw her alive
She was wavin', wavin' bye bye
She was contemplating suicide
Now she's lying in a bottle of formaldehyde.
And oh, I just don't know
Why I can't let her go
Oh I just don't know.
Hey hey hey
Why is it always this way? (2x)
Last time I saw her alive
She was going to the wash and dry
She was outside hitchin' a ride
Now she's lying
In a bottle of formaldehyde.
And oh, I just don't know...
Hey hey hey... (repeat & fade out)
All songs by Ramones except
Do You Wanna Dance? by Freeman
Surfin' Bird by White/Frazier/Harris/Wilson
Chords are mostly 5's but indicating this all the time would be a mess.
They're mostly 'major-like' anyway except for F#5 in Here Today, Gone
Tomorrow, which may even be F#m.
NC means no chord.
Lyrics are from uwp and were sent by Eric Wincentsen.
If you find an error, I'd be glad to hear about it. "
Juha Kivijarvi
juhkivij@utu.fi