Looking For An Echo

Ol '55

The picking pattern over the chords is: e--------0-----/-------0-----/-------1-------/-------3-----/-------3---- B----------1---/---------1---/-----1---1-----/-----3---3---/-----6---6-- G-----0------0-/-----2-----2-/---2-------2---/---4-------4-/---4-------4 D---2----------/---2---------/-3-----------3-/-5-----------/-5---------- A-3------------/-0-----------/---------------/-------------/------------ E--------------/-------------/---------------/-------------/------------ Verse 1 At daydream junior highschool we used to harmonise Me and Frankie and Jimmy and some Italian guy We were singing oldies but they were newies then And today when I play my old 45's I remember when Verse 2 We practiced in a subway, in a lobby or a hall Crowded in a doorway singing "do waps" to the wall And when we went to a party and they wouldn't let us sing We'd lock ourselves in the bathroom and nobody could get in Chorus: 'Cause we were looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost found ooooh Bridge: And the girls would gather 'round us and our heads would really swell We'd sing songs by the moonglows, the harptones and the dells And when we sang sincerely, we really sang it high And even though it was falsetto we almost reached the sky Verse 3 We've sung a lot of changes since 1955 And a lot of bad arrangements we've tried to harmonise Now they've turned into oldies but they were newies then And today when I play those old 45's I remember when 'Cause we were looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost found We were looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost found Found..oooh....found...oooh..found (etc.)

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