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Writer's pictureLiam Ward

How to Play: Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran

Has your boss ever kept scheduling you to work late, meaning you can’t go on a date with your girlfriend?*


If so, you’re in good company. Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran is all about this very predicament.


Here is my free harmonica lesson and free harmonica tabs teaching you Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran.




*According to Wikipedia, the story behind Summertime Blues is this: the singer hasn’t been able to take his girlfriend out on a date because his boss keeps making him work late. He gets so annoyed that he ends up telling his boss he is sick (even though he isn't) so he can be free to take his girlfriend out. His parents think this is lazy so they stop him from borrowing their car to take his girlfriend out on the date. The situation seems so unfair and so he writes to his congressman to complain. The congressman comes back to him… and low and beyond… completely brushes him off because he is too young to vote!


This is part of a Summer-related mini-series.

Want to learn Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams? Click here

Want to learn Summertime by George Gershwin? Click here

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