IT DON'T TAKE BUT A FEW MINUTES
(Chuck Berry)


Chuck Berry - 1957
Matchbox (vocal: Wiffle Smith) - 1976
NRBQ - 1977
The Oil City Sheiks - 1979
Hentchmen - 1995



When I see those big brown eyes, that's when I take my cue
It don't take me but a few minutes to get a message through
I talk to you and you talk to me and we talk to one another
It don't take us but a few minutes to understand each other

If I was twenty-three years old and you were twenty-two
I bet no one would try to run our life the way they do
We take a chance and try romance, be true to one another
It don't take us but a few minutes when we want each other

And if I was in San Diego and you were in Portland, Maine
I'd fly to you lock, stock and bond, in hail and fog and rain
Over the mountains, through the valleys, coming home to each other
It don't take us but a few minutes to get to one another

If you would write a love song and play on my guitar
And if you should in Hollywood become a movie star
Would you let your heart forget I loved you and you only
It don't take but a few minutes when you're feelin' lonely

When I saw those big brown eyes, that's when I took my cue
It didn't take me but a few minutes to get a message through
I talked to her and she talked to me and we talked to one another
It didn't take us but a few minutes to understand each other



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2018)