Louie Louie chords
The Kingsmen 1957 (Richard Berry 1955)

[Intro]

    *   x2

[Chorus]

           
Louie Louie, o

           
h no, we gotta

       
 go.
           
Louie Louie, o

           
h baby, we got

         
ta go.

[Verse 1]

            
A fine girl, w

            
ho waited for 


me.
            
I catch a ship

          
 across the se

a.
            
I sailed the s

       
hip all alone.
            
I wondered whe

            
n I'm gonna ma

      
ke it home.

[Chorus]

           
Louie Louie, o

           
h no no no, we

             
 gotta go.
           
Louie Louie, o

           
h baby, we got

         
ta go.

[Verse 2]

             
Three nights a

           
nd days I sail

       
ed the sea.
             
I think of the

           
 girl constant


ly.
            
On the ship, I

         
 dream she the

re.
            
I smell the ro

            
se that's in h

   
er hair.

[Chorus]

           
Louie Louie, o

           
h no, we gotta

       
 go.
           
Louie Louie, o

           
h baby, we got

         
ta go.

[Solo]

        x8

[Verse 3]

         
I see
            
I see Jamaican

     
 moon above.
            
See the girl I

          
'm thinking of

.
            
I take her in 

          
my arms and th

en
            
Say I'll never

      
 leave again.

[Chorus]

           
Louie Louie, o

           
h no, we gotta

       
 go.
           
Louie Louie, o

           
h baby, we got

         
ta go.

[Outro]

             
I said we gott

             
a go now
              
Let's hustle o

                  
n out of here
         
Let's go!

* Some folks perfer E instead of Em

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