In the beginning there was nothing but rocks -
then somebody invented the wheel
- and things just begun to roll 


Did you e-ver hear a ten-or sax____
swing-in' like a rus-ty axe,____
honk-in' like a frog down in a hol-low log?

Ba-by, that is rock___ and roll.______
Did you ev-er hear a gui-tar twang,___
jing-y jing-y jing-y jang, ____
e-ver hear those strings down do-in'
cra-zy things?

Ba-by, that is rock___ and roll.______
That ain't no freight train that I hear___
roll-in' down the rail-road tracks.
That's a coun-try born pi-a-no man____
play-in' in be-tween__the cracks.
You____say that mu-sic's for__the birds___
and you can't un-der-stand the words.___

Well ho-ney if you did, you'd real-ly blow your lid
'cause ba-by that is rock__and roll....
in the mor-nin, ba-by that is rock___and roll....
in the eve-nin', ba-by that is rock___and roll!

[Circa 1959]
Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller