{"id":3146,"date":"2021-10-11T02:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:35:05","slug":"jailhouse-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/jailhouse-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailhouse Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELVIS <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The [D] warden threw a party in the county jail.\u00a0 The [G] prison band was there and they began to wail.\u00a0 The [A] band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing.\u00a0 You [D] should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s [G] rock, Everybody, let’s [D] rock.\u00a0 Every- [A] -body in the old cell block was [G] dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[D G A D ]\u00a0\u00a0 Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone.\u00a0 Little Joe was blowin’ on the slide trombone.\u00a0 The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang.\u00a0 The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ C H O R U S ]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ D G A D ] Number 47 said to number 3\u00a0 “You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.\u00a0 I sure would be delighted with your company.\u00a0 Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ C H O R U S ]<\/strong><\/span> – CONTINUE WITH CHORUS WHEN YOU CLICK DOWN ARROW<\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0 CLICK THE ARROW TO THE LEFT<\/a>
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TARGET<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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\n[ CHORUS]\u00a0 [ G D A G ]\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s rock, Everybody, let’s rock.\u00a0 Everybody in the old cell block was dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

–[ D G A D ]\u00a0\u00a0 Sad Sack was sittin’ on a block of stone. – way over in the corner weepin’ all alone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The warden said, “Hey, buddy, don’t you be no square.\u00a0 If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ C H O R U S ]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ D G A D ]\u00a0\u00a0 Shifty Henry said to Bugs, “For Heaven’s sake.\u00a0 No one’s lookin’, now’s the chance to make a break”.\u00a0 Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, “Nix nix.\u00a0 I wanna stick around while I get my kicks”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[ C H O R U S ]\u00a0 [ G D A G ]\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s rock, Everybody, let’s rock.\u00a0 Everybody in the old cell block was dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock, dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock<\/strong><\/span>
\nDancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock, dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ELVIS The [D] warden threw a party in the county jail.\u00a0 The [G] prison band was there and they began to wail.\u00a0 The [A] band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing.\u00a0 You [D] should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing { CHORUS }\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s [G] rock, Everybody, let’s … CLICK TO VIEW SONGJailhouse 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":[24,133,126,265,13,59,116,117,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-elvis","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-start-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30177,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/30177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}