Maybellene lyrics

Song information

Artist: Chuck Berry
Album: Chuck Berry Is On Top

Lyrics

Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh maybelline , why can't you be true
You done started doin' the things you used to do

As I was motorvaton over the hill
I saw maybelline in a coup de ville
A cadillac arollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my v8 ford
The cadillac doin' about ninetyfive
She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side to side

Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh maybelline , why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do

The cadillac pulled up to a hundred and four
The ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rainwater blowin' all under my hood
I know that I was doin' my motor good

Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do

Oh maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do

The motor cooled down the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The cadillac sittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead the cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught maybelline at the top of the hill

Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do