Maybellene

(words & music by chuck berry) Maybellene, why cant you be true? Oh maybellene, why cant you be true? Youve started back doing the things you used to do. As I was motivatin over the hill I saw maybellene in a coup de ville. A cadillac a-rollin on the open road, Nothin will outrun my v8 ford. The cadillac doin bout ninety-five, Shes bumper to bumber rollin side by side. Maybellene, why cant you be true? Oh maybellene, why cant you be true? Youve started back doing the things you used to do. The cadillac moved to a hundred and four Got hot and wouldnt do no more It got cloudy and started to rain Tooted my horn in the passing lane The rain water blowin all under my hood I knew that was doin my motor no good Maybellene, why cant you be true? Oh maybellene, why cant you be true? Youve started back doing the things you used to do. Maybellene, why cant you be true? Oh maybellene, why cant you be true? Youve started back doing the things you used to do. The motor cooled down, the heat went down And thats when I heard that highway sound. The cadillac a-sittin like a ton of lead A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead. The cadillac lookin like its sittin still And I caught mabellene at the top of the hill. Maybellene, why cant you be true? Oh maybellene, why cant you be true? Youve started back doing the things you used to do. Youve started back doing the things you used to do.