Crazy Little Thing Called Love Queen (Freddie
Mercury)
Released
5th October, 1979 - Spent 13 weeks on chart and reached number Two. Went Gold.
Written in the bath.
D boogie woogie walking bass
This
thing / called love / I just can’t handle it
This
thing / called love / I must get round to it
I
ain’t ready / Crazy little thing called love
This
thing (this thing) / Called love (called
love)
It
cries (like a baby) / In a cradle all
night
It
swings (woo woo) / It jives (woo
woo)
It
shakes all over like a jelly fish
I
kinda like it / Crazy little thing called love
(melody starts on “D”)
G C
There
goes my baby / She knows how to rock ‘n’ roll
G E
She
drives me crazy / She gives me hot and cold fever
A
Then
she leaves me in a cool cool sweat
Accapella
(with clapping):
I
gotta be cool, / relax, / get hip / And get on my track’s
Take
a / back seat, / hitch-hike / And take a long ride on my motorbike
Until
I’m ready / Crazy little thing called love
I
gotta be cool, / relax, / get hip
And
get on my track’s
Take
a back seat, hitch-hike
And
take a long ride on my motorbike
Until
I’m ready (ready Freddie)
Crazy
little thing called love
This
thing called love I just can’t handle it
This
thing called love I must get round to it
I
ain’t ready / Crazy little thing called love
Crazy
little thing called love yeah yeah (ad
nauseum)