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Song title:       Hang On Sloopy
Original Album:	  - single (for The McCoys)

Words and Music by Bert Russell and Wes Farrel
Copyright © 1965 Bang Records
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Originally titled "My Girl Sloopy", and written for The Vibrations in 1964,
this song has been covered by 31 performers (and counting) since, as well as 
two French versions of the song: "Un sourire" (by Sylvain Pauchard) and 
"Reviens Sloupy" (by Pierre Saka).


CHORUS:
F#   B       C#      B       F#      B C# B 
Ha - ang on, Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on! 
F#   B       C#      B       F#      B C# B 
Ha - ang on, Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on! 


VERSE:
F#     B          C#   B           F#   B C# B
Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town,
    F#   B     C#                 B             F#   B C# B
and everybody, yeah, is tryin' to put my Sloopy down.
F#      B       C#             B     F#   B C# B
Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do,
      F#        B      C#           B         F# B C#
cause you know, Sloopy girl, I'm in love with you.
C#
and so I sing out - 


[repeat CHORUS]


[INTERLUDE]


VERSE:
F#               B         C#           B            F#   B C# B
Sloopy, let your hair hang down, let it hang down on me,
F#               B          C#           B            F#  B C# B
Sloopy, let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me. Yeah..yeah..
B              F#           B        C#
Yeah, come on, Sloopy, come on, come on,
B            F#           B        C#
oh, come on, Sloopy, come on, come on!
        F#           B        C#
Come on Sloopy, come on, come on.
        F#           B        C#
Come on Sloopy, come on, come on.
C#               F#        B        C#
Make me feel so good, come on, come on!
C#              F#         B        C#
Make me feel so good, come on, come on!
C#                        F#           B        C#
Well, shake it, shake it, Sloopy, come on, come on,
C#                      F#         B        C# C#7
oh, shake it, shake it, yeah, come on, come on.


[repeat CHORUS]


LAST CHORUS:
F#   B       C#      B       F#      B C# B 
Ha - ang on, Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on! 
F#   B       C#      B       F#      B C# B F#
Ha - ang on, Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on!



CHORUS:
F#   244322
B    224442
C#   446664
C#7  446464