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Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me

Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rock, Rock, Rock
Released: 1956

You Can't Catch Me Lyrics

I bought a brand-new air-mobile
It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville
With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway wings
Push in on the button and you can hear her sing

Now You Can't Catch Me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours
I was rollin' slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers
Here come a flat-top, he was movin' up with me
Then come wavin' by me in a little' old souped-up jitney
I put my foot on my tank and I began to roll
Moanin' siren, 'twas the state patrol
So I let out my wings and then I blew my horn
Bye bye New Jersey, I've become airborne

Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night
Not a gray cloud floatin' in sight
Big full moon shinin' up above
Cuddle up honey, be my love
Sweetest little thing I've ever seen
I'm gonna name you Maybellene
Flyin' on the beam, set on flight control
Radio tuned to rock 'n' roll
Two, three hours passed us by
Five to two dropped to 5:05
Fuel consumption way too fast
Let's get on home before we run out of gas

Now you can't catch me, no baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

Writer/s: CHUCK BERRY
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

You Can't Catch Me Song Chart

Bruce Springsteen wasn't the first to write rock songs about the liberating power of a fast car - Chuck Berry also had a fascination with automobiles, which he sings about here (part of the song takes place on the New Jersey Turnpike, a road Springsteen is quite familiar with).

"This was a yearning which I had since I was aged seven to drive about in a car," Berry told Record Mirror in 1967. "It was my fascination for the roads, for driving, motoring, which prompted me to write those songs."

Driving way too fast under the moonlight with your baby in the car while listening to rock and roll on the radio... it doesn't get any better.

At the end of this song, we find out that the car is named Maybellene, referring to Berry's earlier automotive hit.

One of Berry's early singles, this song surprisingly had no chart success - it didn't even make the R&B tally where all of his previous singles cracked the Top 10.

Berry performed this song in the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock, where he can be seen doing his famous duckwalk.

John Lennon used the guitar riff and some of the lyrics to this for "Come Together." He was sued by Berry and eventually settled.

The Rolling Stones recorded this in 1965. Chuck Berry was one of their heroes, especially to Keith Richards.

Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me

Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rock, Rock, Rock
Released: 1956

You Can't Catch Me Lyrics

I bought a brand-new air-mobile
It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville
With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway wings
Push in on the button and you can hear her sing

Now You Can't Catch Me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours
I was rollin' slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers
Here come a flat-top, he was movin' up with me
Then come wavin' by me in a little' old souped-up jitney
I put my foot on my tank and I began to roll
Moanin' siren, 'twas the state patrol
So I let out my wings and then I blew my horn
Bye bye New Jersey, I've become airborne

Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night
Not a gray cloud floatin' in sight
Big full moon shinin' up above
Cuddle up honey, be my love
Sweetest little thing I've ever seen
I'm gonna name you Maybellene
Flyin' on the beam, set on flight control
Radio tuned to rock 'n' roll
Two, three hours passed us by
Five to two dropped to 5:05
Fuel consumption way too fast
Let's get on home before we run out of gas

Now you can't catch me, no baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze

Writer/s: CHUCK BERRY
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

You Can't Catch Me Song Chart

Bruce Springsteen wasn't the first to write rock songs about the liberating power of a fast car - Chuck Berry also had a fascination with automobiles, which he sings about here (part of the song takes place on the New Jersey Turnpike, a road Springsteen is quite familiar with).

"This was a yearning which I had since I was aged seven to drive about in a car," Berry told Record Mirror in 1967. "It was my fascination for the roads, for driving, motoring, which prompted me to write those songs."

Driving way too fast under the moonlight with your baby in the car while listening to rock and roll on the radio... it doesn't get any better.

At the end of this song, we find out that the car is named Maybellene, referring to Berry's earlier automotive hit.

One of Berry's early singles, this song surprisingly had no chart success - it didn't even make the R&B tally where all of his previous singles cracked the Top 10.

Berry performed this song in the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock, where he can be seen doing his famous duckwalk.

John Lennon used the guitar riff and some of the lyrics to this for "Come Together." He was sued by Berry and eventually settled.

The Rolling Stones recorded this in 1965. Chuck Berry was one of their heroes, especially to Keith Richards.