Eddie Cochran – Twenty Flight Rock (1956)

Ray Edward Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician. He included multitrack recording and distortion techniques on his earliest singles. Cochran’s famous songs are Twenty Flight Rock, Summertime Blues, C’mon Everybody and Somethin’ Else.

Twenty Flight Rock was originally performed by Eddie Cochran in the 1956 film comedy The Girl Can’t Help It and released as a single the following year.

Cochran died at age 21 after a road accident, while travelling in a taxi in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during his British tour in April 1960, having just performed at Bristol’s Hippodrome theatre.

Lyrics

Oh well, I’ve got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin’ she’s the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone, I can hold her tight
But she lives in a twentiest floor up town
The elevator’s broken down

So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I started to drag
Fifteenth floor I’m ready to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

When she calles me up on the telephone
Said “c’mon over honey, I’m all alone”
I said “baby, you’re mighty sweet
But I’m in the bed with a achin’ feet”
This went on for a couple of days
But I couldn’t stay away

So I walked one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I’m ready to drag
Fifteenth floor I started to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

Well, they sent to Chicago for repairs
‘Till it’s a-fixed I’m using the stairs
Hope they hurry up before it’s too late
Want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin’ is gettin’ me down
They’ll find my corpse draped over a rail

But I climbed one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I’m ready to drag
Fifteenth floor I started to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock