Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And The Sinus Flu

Written by: Huey "Piano" Smith
From: “El Rayo X” (1981)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st fret
Play: C
Key: C#
For chords in original key transpose +1

Intro

| N.C. | % | % | % |
 (drums only)
| C | % | % | C G     |

Verse

       C
Doctor told me, “Son, you're living too fast.
C                                       F
One more rocket's gonna be your last.”
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Verse

      C
Say a prayer for me, you think I'm lying?
       C                                                F
If the boogie woogie kills me then I don't mind dying
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Verse

     C
Baby call me on the telephone
C                                    F
Say she wanna ball me all night long
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Instrumental

|  C  |  C  |  C  |  C  |
      (break)      (break)
|  G  |  G  |  C  | C G      |
      (break)

Verse

       C
Doctor told me, “Son, you're living too fast.
C                                       F
One more rocket's gonna be your last.”
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Verse

      C
Say a prayer for me, you think I'm lying?
       C                                                F
If the boogie woogie kills me then I don't mind dying
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Verse

     C
Baby call me on the telephone
C                                    F
Say she wanna ball me all night long
G
But I wanna ball, what I can do?
  F       C                         G
I got the Tu-ber-cu-lucas and the Sinus Flu.

Outro

| C | % | % | % |
| G | G    F | C | C G     |
(fade out)