{"id":21266,"date":"2024-10-03T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=21266"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:59:12","slug":"crocodile-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/crocodile-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Intro]\r\nC<\/span>   C<\/span>   Am<\/span>   Am<\/span>   F<\/span>   F<\/span>   G<\/span>   G<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nI [C] remember when rock was young,    me and [Em] Susie had so much fun\r\nHolding [F] hands and skimmin' stones  had a [G] old gold Chevy & a place of my own\r\nBut the [C] biggest kick I ever got    was doin' a [Em] thing called the Crocodile Rock\r\nWhile the [F] other kids were rockin' 'round the clock we were [G] hoppin' and boppin' to the Crocodile Rock, well<\/span>\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Interlude] - - - C   C   Am   Am   F   F   G   G\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nBut the [C] years went by and rock just died, [Em] Susie went and left me for some foreign guy,\r\n[F] Long nights cryin' by the record machine [G] dreamin' of my Chevy & my old blue jeans but they'll\r\n[C] Never kill the thrills we got. Burnin' [Em] up to the Crocodile Rock,\r\nLearning [F] fast as the weeks went past, we really [G] thought the Crocodile Rock would last, well \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[Am] Crocodile Rockin' is something shockin' when your [D7] feet just can't keep still\r\n[G7] I never knew me a better time and I [C] guess I never will.\r\n[A] Oh, Lawdy mamma those Friday nights when [D7] Susie wore her dresses tight and\r\n[G7] the Crocodile Rockin' was out of sight.   [ A#<\/span> F<\/span> A#<\/span> F<\/span> A#<\/span> F<\/span> ]<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Interlude]\r\nC   C   Am   Am   F   F   G   G\r\n\r\nREPEAT VERSE 1<\/span>\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Outro]\r\nC   C   Am   Am   F   F   G   G\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nRIFF -  if you know how it goes, the extra notes you throw in at the\r\n        appropriate spots are -\r\n        E  on the G chord\r\n        F# on the Em and C chords\r\n        G  on the D chord [dropping the F#]\r\n \r\nBASS -  Walk up from the root to the sixth on each 1\/4 note, so in each\r\n        bar the notes are -\r\n        C   C  E  G  A\r\n        Am  A  C  E  G\r\n        F   F  A  C  D\r\n        G   G  B D  E\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Intro] C C Am Am F F G G [Verse 1] I [C] remember when rock was young, me and [Em] Susie had so much fun Holding [F] hands and skimmin’ stones had a [G] old gold Chevy & a place of my own But the [C] biggest kick I … CLICK TO VIEW SONGCrocodile Rock<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,116,117,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-name-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}