Released: October 14, 1961
Songwriter: Chuck Berry
Producer: Norrie Paramor
I'm gonna give you, forty days to get back home!
I'm gonna call up the gypsy woman on my telephone
I'm gonna tell the world wide who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Yeah, in forty days (forty days)
Forty days (forty days)
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Well I was talking to the judge in private early this morning
When the sheriff came along and took me without any warning
He said i'm setting the charge up, to get ya
That'll be the very thing that'll hang ya
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
In forty days, (forty days)
Forty days, (forty days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home (in forty days)
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Well I was talking to the judge in private early this morning
When the sheriff came along and took me without any warning
He said i'm setting this charge up for gettin' you
But that'll be the very thing that'll hang ya
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
In forty days (forty days)
Forty days (forty days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in forty days
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
I'm gonna call up the gypsy woman on my telephone
I'm gonna tell the world wide who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Yeah, in forty days (forty days)
Forty days (forty days)
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Well I was talking to the judge in private early this morning
When the sheriff came along and took me without any warning
He said i'm setting the charge up, to get ya
That'll be the very thing that'll hang ya
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
In forty days, (forty days)
Forty days, (forty days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home (in forty days)
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
Well I was talking to the judge in private early this morning
When the sheriff came along and took me without any warning
He said i'm setting this charge up for gettin' you
But that'll be the very thing that'll hang ya
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home
In forty days
In forty days (forty days)
Forty days (forty days)
I'm gonna see that you'll be back home in forty days
In forty days (In forty days)
I'm gonna tell the whole wide world who doo
That'll be the very thing that I do do
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days
- 21 Today (1961)
- Congratulations
- Devil Woman
- Visions
- We Don’t Talk Anymore
- Ocean Deep
- Shine, Jesus, Shine
- Constantly
- Mistletoe & Wine
- Spider Man
- Power to All Our Friends
- With A Girl Like You
- Ich träume deine träume
- Daddy’s Home
- Every Face Tells a Story (It Never Tells a Lie)
- Little Bitty Pretty One
- Blueberry Hill
- I Wish We’d All Been Ready
- In the Country
- When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart
- Better Than I Know Myself
- All I Ask of You
- Peace in Our Time
- Thief in the Night
- Shout