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Fun Tonight

Riverdales

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From: OpenFace@aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:02:11 -0400
Subject: CDR: "Fun Tonight" by Riverdales

"Fun Tonight"
performed by the Riverdales
written by Ben Foster/Dan Schafer (Ben Weasel/Danny Vapid)
(C) 1995 Weasels Inc. (ASCAP)
(P) 1995 Lookout Records
from the Lookout Records releases The Riverdales (LK 120 LP/CS/CD) and "Fun
Tonight" b/w "I'm a Vegetable" 7" (LK 115)
transcribed by Mike Ripplinger (openface@aol.com)

[Notes]
* chord1 sl. chord2 = slide from first chord to second
* Lyrics are my best guess, as a sheet is not included with the album

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["Fun Tonight"]

(drums)
We're gonna have fun tonight (x4)

[Verse]
C sl. C#           D# sl. E
Grab your date and motorbabe (?)
      F sl. F #                     C sl. C#
cause we're gonna have fun tonight
C sl. C#                            D# sl. E
We're gonna throw a bomb (?) in the city you're from
           F sl. F#                C sl C#
yeah we're gonna have fun tonight

[Chorus]
      E          B     C#
We're gonna have fun tonight
      E          B     C#
We're gonna have fun tonight
      E          B               F#         B     C#
We're gonna have fun, yeah we're gonna have fun tonight

[Verse]
We want something new right now and we're gonna have fun tonight
Bored and sick of everything, yeah, we're gonna have fun tonight

[Repeat chorus]

[Drums]
1, 2, 3, go!

[Play verse twice]

[Verse]
It doesn't matter where we go cause we're gonna have fun tonight
We got the Fastbacks kickin' on the radio and we're gonna have fun tonight

[Repeat chorus]

[As Rev. Norb's speech begins, hold a C# note until the first chord, which is
a C#.  Continue to hit a one-beat C# chord every four bars throughout the
breakdown.]

[Play verse four times]

[Verse]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah  Yeah yeah yeah yeah  Yeah yeah yeah yeah (x 4)