Ronnie Self - Bop-A-Lena

Bop-A-Lena:Ronnie Self.

#68 on COLUMBIA Records in 1958.

(Pure Rock-a-Billy.)



INTRO:

C                                             

Oop-scooby-dooby-Lena, go-gal-go..

    

CHORUS:

C                                                        

Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..

                      F                    C                                 

oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.

G7                              C                                           

She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-



dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.

           

#1. 

C                                                                         

Well, the school bells are ringin', everybody 



went out..goin' to the shack, gonna shake it all about.

F                                                                      

Bop-a-Lena lookin' like a rose in the wild..

C                                                    

man, I dig that freaky juvenile.

G7                                                                           

When she gets a-goin' she's a real cool chick..

C                                          

she do The Bop like a pogo-stick.

            

CHORUS:

C                                                        

Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..

                      F                    C                                 

oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.

G7                              C                                           

She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-



dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.



           

(INTERLUDE:) C F C G7 C





#2.

C

I got my patent-leather shoes on my hound-dog feet..

                                              F

me and bop-a-Lena gonna walk the beat..to the whole 

                             C

jukebox in the be-bop shack..when we get a-goin', gonna 



Ball The Jack.

G7                                 C

Bop-a-Lena got two feet that talk..look at her go on The



Camel-Walk.



CHORUS:

C                                                        

Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..

                      F                    C                                 

oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.

G7                              C                                           

She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-



dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.





(INTERLUDE:) C F C G7 C





OUTRO:

C                                                        

Bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, she's my gal..

                      F                    C                                 

oh, bop-a-Lena, bop-a-Lena, yeah, she's my gal.

G7                              C                                           

She's my gal and I love her so..oop-scooby-



dooby-Lena, go-gal-go.

           

 

A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.