BABY, THAT'S ROCK AND ROLL
(Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller)


In the beginning there was nothing but rocks -
Then somebody invented the wheel - 
And things just begun to roll.....

Did you e-ver hear a ten-or sax
Swing-in' like a rus-ty axe,
Honk-in' like a frog down in a hol-low log?
Ba-by, that is rock and roll.

Did you ev-er hear a gui-tar twang,
Jing-y jing-y jing-y jang,
E-ver hear those strings down do-in' cra-zy things?
Ba-by, that is rock and roll.

That ain't no freight train that I hear
Roll-in' down the rail-road tracks.
That's a coun-try born pi-a-no man
Play-in' in be-tween the cracks.

You say that mu-sic's for the birds
And you can't un-der-stand the words.
Well ho-ney if you did, you'd real-ly blow your lid
'Cause ba-by that is rock and roll....

In the mor-nin, ba-by that is rock and roll....
In the eve-nin', ba-by that is rock and roll!