Framed chords

Ritchie Valens

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Simplify chords 

  			
  Typical riff repeated at beginning of every line of the verses:  
   G   
e|---------------| 
B|---5---3-------| 
G|---5---3h4-----| 
D|-5---5-----5---| 
A|---------------| 
E|---------------| 

The chord backing in the Chorus from R.V in the Chorus are single chords as marked. the chords in ( )  
show where the backing changes. 

#1: 

G  
  I was walkin' down the street, mindin' my own affair 
G  
  When two policemen grabbed me, unaware 
G  
  He says "Is your name Henry?" I says "Why sure" 
G                                G7                               
  He says "You the boy I bin lookin' for" 

No chord     B9 C9 C9  C9    ( G )    F#7 G7 G7  G7 
I was framed,      framed, I was blamed,     framed 
      ( D  )          C#9 D9 C7       C7               F#7 G7 
Well, I never knew    nothin,   but I always get framed        Oh, framed 

#2: 
G  
  They took him in the line up and let those bright lights shine, 
G  
  There was ten poor souls like me in that line 
G  
  I knew I was a victim of someone's evil plan 
G                                         G7  
  When a stool pigeon walked in and says "That's your man" 

No chord  B9 C9              G      F#7 G7 
I was framed,    framed, I was blamed,      oh framed, framed, framed 
         D         C#9 D9   C7                G      F#7 G7 
Well, I never knew nothin,   but I always get framed        Oh, framed       

#3: 
G  
  Well, the prosecutin' attorney started a'prosecutin' me 
G  
  Man, that cat didn't give me the one, but the third degree 
G   
  He says "Where were you on the night of July 1953?" 
G                                         G7 
  "Man I was just home just a tweedly-dee" 
  
No chord   B9 C9                 G     F#7 G7 
I was framed     oh framed, I was blamed,    oh framed, framed, framed, 
       D          C#9 D9  C7                 G      F#7 G7 
Well I never knew nothin,   but I always get framed        Oh, framed, Oh framed