Good timin’ (1960)    (video)

 

    C - E - F - G     - C - G - F - G     - - - - - - - -   

                                                     Oh, you need ...       

C

    Timin', a tick a tick a tick a

          - Am

good             timin', a tuck a tuck a tuck a tuck a,

 C                   G - E          Am            C                     G       C

timin' is the thi.......ng, it's true, good timin' brought me to you.

 

+ C - E - F - G    

 

        C                                 Am

1. If little little David hadn't grabbed that stone

    F               G           C

    lyin' there on the ground

     C                              Am

    big Goliath might've stomped on him

           F              G        C          G7

    instead of the other way, but he had ... + CHORUS   + C - E - F - G

 

       C                                      Am

2. Who in the world would've ever known

        F       G                    C

    what Columbus could do ?

             C                            Am

    If Queen Isabella hadn't hocked her jewels,

          F           G        C          G7

    in fourteen ninety two, but she had ....  + CHORUS   + C - E - F - G

 

         C                                     Am

3. What would've happened if you and I

     F                G                    C

    hadn't just happened to meet ?

      C                                Am

    We might've spent the rest of our lives

      F                    G           C          G7

    walkin' down Misery Street, but we had ... + CHORUS   + C - E - F - G

 

              G7                                            G7

+ Yeah, we had   + CHORUS   + Yeah, we had  + CHORUS  ..

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)        (Jimmy Jones)