Smokey Joes Café

artist:The Robins

, writer:Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

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 {t:Smokey Joes Café} 
{artist:The Robins}
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{c: Thanks to the brilliant Martyn 'EEK' Cooper } 

[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café
[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café

[G] One day while I was [C] eating beans (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
[G] Just sittin', diggin' [C] all them scenes (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
A [C] chick came walking through the door that I had never seen before
At [G] least I'd never [C] saw her down (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
And [D] I started shakin' [D7]/ when she sat right down next to [G] me [C][G]

[G] Her knees were almost [C] touching mine (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
A [G] chill was running [C] down my spine (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
[C] I could smell her sweet perfume she smiled at me, my heart went boom
Then [G] everybody [C] in the room (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
They said [D] "man be careful, [D7]/ that chick belongs to Smokey [G] Joe" [C] [G]

Then [C] from behind the counter, I saw a man
A chefs hat on his head and a knife in his hand
He grabbed me by the collar and he began to shout 
[NC] "You'd better [D]/ eat up all your beans, boy 
and [G7]/ clear right on out"

[G] Yes, I know I'll never [C] eat again (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
And so we'll never [C] meet again (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
I'd [C] rather eat my chilli beans at Jack's or John's or Jim's or Jean's
Than [G] take my chances [C] eating down (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
Than [D] risk my life with [NC] Smokey Joe that crazy fool

{sos}
[G] Yes, I know I'll never [C] eat again (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
And so we'll never [C] meet again (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
I'd [C] rather eat my chilli beans at Jack's or John's or Jim's or Jean's
Than [G] take my chances [C] eating down (at [G] Smokey Joe's Café)
{eos}
[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café
[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café
[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café
[G] Waa-[C]-aah, at [G] Smokey Joe's Café

Song Info

Title: Smokey Joes Café

Artist: The Robins

Writer: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

Song Types: R&B/Soul, Rock n Roll

Key: G

Info: The Robins were a successful and influential American R&B group of the late 1940s and 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal groups who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound. They were founded by Ty Terrell, and twin brothers Billy Richards and Roy Richards. Bobby Nunn soon joined the line-up. They began their career as the Bluebirds but switched to recording as the Robins in May, 1949. In 1955, the group disagreed over whether to remain on the West Coast or sign with Atlantic Records and move to the East Coast. This led to a split within the group. Music producers and songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller took former Robins members Nunn and Carl Gardner, recruited singers Leon Hughes and Billy Guy, and formed the Coasters. The founding Richards brothers and Tyrell continued to record as the Robins until 1961

Smokey Joe's Cafe is also a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The Original Broadway cast recording, Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller, won a Grammy Award in 1997.

The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller started Spark Records and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins (their sixth single with Leiber and Stoller). The record was popular enough for Atlantic Records to offer Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for Atlantic. Only two of the Robins�"Gardner and Nunn�"were willing to make the move to Atlantic, recording their first songs in the same studio as the Robins had done (Master Recorders). In late 1957, Nunn and Hughes moved to New York and joined with Cornell Gunter and Will "Dub" Jones to form The Coasters.The new quartet was from then on stationed in New York, although all had Los Angeles roots.

The Coasters' association with Leiber and Stoller was an immediate success.[Together they created a string of good-humored "storytelling" hits that are some of the most entertaining from the original era of rock and roll. According to Leiber and Stoller, getting the humor to come through on the records often required more recording "takes" than for a typical musical numbe

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Smokey Joes Café

artist:The Robins

, writer:Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

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