(Wow wow) You know I'm almost grown (wow wow)
Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school
They ain't said I broke no rule
I ain't never been in Dutch
I don't browse around too much

Don't bother me, leave me alone
Anyway I'm almost grown

I don't run around with no mob
Got myself a little job
I'm gonna buy me a little car
Drive my girl in the park

Don't bother just leave us alone
Anyway we're almost grown

Got my eye on a little girl
Ah, she's really out of this world
When I take her to the dance
She's got to talk about romance

Don't bother just leave us alone
Anyway we're almost grown

You know I'm still livin' in town
But I done married and settled down
Now I really have a ball
So I don't browse around at all

Don't bother just leave us alone
Anyway we're almost grown

Lyrics © ENTERTAINMENT ONE U.S. LP
Written by: Chuck Berry

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木倉谷哲也

39w↑1

Lyrics:

(Wow wow)
You know I’m almost grown
(Wow Wow)
Yeah ‘n’ I’m doing all right in school
They ain’t said I broke no rule
I ain’t never been in Dutch
I don’t carouse around too much
Don’t bother me, leave me alone
Anyway I’m almost grown

I don’t run around with no mob
Got myself a little job
I’m going to buy me a little car
Drive my girl in the park
Don’t bother us, leave us alone
Anyway we’re almost grown

Got my eye on a little girl
Ah, she’s really out of this world
Now I take her to a dance
We started talkin’ about romance
Don’t bother us, leave us alone
Anyway we’re almost grown

You know I’m still livin’ in town
But I done married and settle down
Now I really have a ball
So I don’t browse around at all
Don’t bother us, leave us alone
Anyway we’re almost grown

All comments from YouTube:

DRock6906

5y↑70

R.I.P. Mr. Berry.... Passed away today March 18, 2017 at the age of 90. You left behind a catalog of great Rock And Roll Music that will live on forever. You will be missed.

Harley Moore

1y↑3

Aye Chuck's records are on a record in space so it'll always be there

#RockNRollWillNeverDie

SS Swaery

3y↑3

damm

carl de meutter

3y↑3

fuckin' aai man

Joe Palooka

42w↑10

John Lennon said it best: "If they ever changed the name of rock and roll, they'd have to call it Chuck Berry". He really was The Greatest.

Justin Daniel Dunn

7y↑42

I love how George Lucas did this movie before Star Wars,

Randy White

1y↑1

RideMyTruck absolutely not leave the classics alone

David Trevino

Justin Daniel Do YOU Really???

Not Chuck Productions

Justin Daniel Yah, this movie was made becuse he lost a bet with Francis Ford Coppola and becuse Lucas lost the bet he had to write is sentimtal mushy movie

Not Chuck Productions

4y↑1

RideMyTruck univseral still owns distribution rights to American graffiti though I’d assume Disney gets a check in mail every once in while from American graffiti and THX 1138 as I think Disney got the production rights

RideMyTruck

6y↑5

@Justin Daniel Dunn yeah, Disney owns it now. They should do a remake or a prequel.

midnight rider

5y↑17

kind of an overlooked Chuck Berry song. underated, but great song!

Corky341

27w↑1

Agreed. My 2nd fav CB song after 'Nadine'. Also a somewhat over looked Chuck masterpiece.

midnight rider

2y↑1

@Toni Sumblin: it's never too late to start having fun, c'mon, rock and roll!

Egbert Souce

4y↑1

These days, this one remains at the top of the heap. Most of his other hits get overplayed and worn out for just that reason. But this tune was somewhat overlooked and under-appreciated, except by the genius (George Lucas?) who had the inspiration to include it in the soundtrack of American Graffiti. That move gave eternal greatness to a diamond in the rough. R.I.P. Chuck Berry

midnight rider

+loverofmusic4life hard to believe but i THINK his only #1 song was "ding a ling". ironic. that was one of my least favorite CB songs. oh well, HAIL, HAIL ROCK & ROLL! (even tho they don't make it anymore)

loverofmusic4life

5y↑1

+Bobba Ganoosh No doubt.Chucks career lasted for such a long time it's hard to say which songs were underated.Being a CB fan I loved them all!!

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allaboard70

6y↑16

One of the best songs from "American Graffiti" <3

Taylor George

8y↑47

THE ABSOLUTE VERY FIRST ROCK GUITAR GOD!!!!

Steveo Gregg

No doubt

Spedia

Sister Rosetta Tharpe?

Alan Young

4y↑1

Carl Perkins was a better guitar player and just as good writer.

Alan Young

Bill Haley just played rhythm.

mr. warmth

4y↑1

no its not son

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Drenda Lawton

4y↑3

I grew up with the great Chuck Berry...I was Sweet Little 16....

Roman Darien

3y↑3

Ah-h, Chuck...you gotta wait till she IS grown!

Luciano Osorio

23w↑4

This song is perfect when you are growing up and the years pass by

babsinjrzy

8y↑15

backup singers included Marvin Gaye & Etta James. Love this. don't care for everything old physicall graffit...other than that, thanks for uploading this.

Dead Grandma

*American Graffiti. Physical Graffiti is an amazing Led Zeppelin album

Robert Marks

4y↑8

Coolest tune ever!

Gotti Aristo

3y↑14

The REAL KING of Rock n Roll.

Rusty Walker

1y↑2

Thank you for posting this American jewel!! 🇺🇸❤️

J Talker

5y↑6

Love this song

Jeffrey Hickman

26w↑1

Great outro to this song!! Perfect!! 2:16 "Die-away"!!

Jenna R

34w↑2

I LOVE HOME ALONE 3 SO MUCH

木倉谷哲也

39w↑1

ffdztdr

8y↑1

I thinkI will keep working towards this one, because I really love her.

therebinthe

11y↑1

I LOOOOOOOVE this song, and I'm 19!

Nick Madness

32w↑1

Damn I dig this song! — Forgotten Top-40 hit, peaked at #32 in the Spring of 1959.
Just a perfect single in every way. — Thanks for the upload. 👍

TheOnlyOneKingElvis

8y↑11

If Chuck had liked em full grown he would have spent less time in the big house

Egbert Souce

4y↑1

HH69: Ask Jerry Lee Lewis---on second thought, maybe not the best one to ask !! In Chuck's case, probably a few years older than Sweet Little Fourteen ????

Egbert Souce

4y↑1

TheOnlyOneKingElvis: Apparently, he spent considerable "quality time" in the ladies outhouse, (after a stretch in the big house) with his hidden cameras rolling. Doesn't make him a "bad person" or anything; but who am I to judge??? R.I.P. Chuck

Bea Awesome

11y↑2

God I use to wish I could play like him!

Barry Ellis

3y↑4

Some beautiful piano from J.J

Marco Piaggesi

tasty piano licks behind the guitar , like in almost every Berry's song of the fifties...

shelly gray

9y↑1

love this song 2

themightydells

8y↑3

Background Vocals; Not new Moonglows, but
The Mighty Mighty Dells .....although Harvey Fugua,
may have also been in the background vocals ....Now you know
The Dells forever .....

Chief Pontiac

2y↑1

The ONLY artist who has a record in interstellar space! MR. Barry, you were always one of my favorites. RIP Boss!

shane henning

10y↑2

great song

lindsey lefrois

11y

@y00sta - Yes, do agree also. I think of Elvis as the "personification" of rock & roll because he was such a great stage presence in the early years and of course had a great voice and vocal style. Chuck was the #1 "architect" of rock & roll, along with some major help (as I said) from Little Richard and Fats Domino.

curtis grupe

love this song by a great rock n roll legend

seywhut2985

5y↑2

Takes me right back to Opryland and running the roller coaster. Best job I ever had. They played the American Graffiti soundtrack on a continuous loop.

Own Petard

51w

Cindy William's left profile - 0:07 and 2:00 - reveals what we called a "tough" girl. Just gorgeous, and so sweet. Perfectly cast for her role. She should have had a better career. Not the clearest images, but fun ones if you liked the film.

Andre Berbie

The king of the king. Thank you very much,Sir Chuck Berry.

Stephen Carrigg

I keep finding more and more of the Father's songs each week!

Nate Burrows

Fuckin' amazing!

Patricia Kehaya

2y↑1

Woo woo love it

Soulman

That´s music...great music...!!!

Patricia Kehaya

3y↑1

Love it

Darryl Evans

One of the best from the late and great Chuck Berry the founding father of rock n roll still play this on my internet radio show Classic Soul me the Masterblaster.

MrGotsquashed

10y

My love for this music was preceded by my love for classic cars. What's cruzzin' in a '59 Impala with no golden oldies??!

Joshua Wood

8y↑1

love this tune

Patricia Kehaya

Love the photos

Art Donovan

3y↑2

The absolute essence of Rock & Roll. The ORIGINAL invention of the genre. GOD Bless Mr. Berry.

Luis Enrique QM

11y

great!!!!

rosebud7158

10y

85 and still going strong--god bless the Chuckster!!

Brian Herrington

5y↑7

RIP The Father of Rock n Roll The Great Chuck Berry!!!!

BigWheelHawaii

11y

What a Great Talent, Great Entertainer, history setting, trend setter, that for sure,,,,

John Moonitz

5y↑7

Can't get enough of this song!!! Perfection!!! RIP Chuck . . . you have left us with many treasures that will stand the test of time

ffdztdr

it suprised me, I know what month it was in that I fell in-love with her, but not the specific day, June of 2012. I never use to cry until I fell in-love, and I'm old fasioned in all ways, when it comes to dating I open up doors and treat that one special person like a princess and I want to marry her one day and I will take care of her when she's sick and comfort her if she cries, and I think she's the most beautiful girl in the world, it sedms like nobody looks better looking than her...

Stokjockey

10y

Can Chuck Play Guitar or What ?? Love Mr. Berry !!!

Luciano Osorio

23w↑3

"Here you go Speedy" Alex

Flamenco Express

11y

I thnk this is the perfect Berry.

Tom Cat Lyons

5y↑5

Chuck Berry Iz da MAN!

rael1999

5y↑1

Godfather of rock and roll along with Les Paul who invented the electric guitar and Alan Freed who despite fierce criticism pushed the up and coming new bands over the airways ! Would have been great being a teenager back in the mid fifties in America !

la mellas Jiminian

4y↑1

a true classic

Musicellaneous

Fantastic video!! :)

mws755

5y↑6

RIP Chuck ...keep rockin in Heaven !

Eric Hancock

Chuck Berry...truly timeless.

Spooky Rascon

Blasphemy! Elvis is "THE" King. Berry is his Prince.

Grace Slade

2y↑6

Your brother's bug your brother's bug careful careful 😂

isemustaphe

2y↑2

Bullseye!

DRock6906

Your welcome! I'm not for sure cause it's been forever and a day since I saw this movie but I think this song was being played while the little "Home Alone" kid was getting dressed or playing around in his room or taking a bath or something.

Thomas Anderson

10y

this man got it all started; listen, just listen to these lyrics; a superman of rockabilly and roll!!

sauquoit13456

9y↑1

On this day in 1959 {March 5th} Chuck Berry performed "Almost Grown" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... R.I.P. Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012} and Mr. Berry celebrated his 86th birthday this past October 18th... {See the 5th post below}

Jesse Collyer

1y↑1

My best guess is that the backing vocals say “night and day”. Sounds just like the “night and day” backing vocals for the song “Night Time Is The Right Time”, The Animals version at least. The Animals were hugely inspired by Chuck Berry :)

midnight rider

34w↑2

All the true rock & rollers were inspired by the great chuck berry.

freeguy77

5y↑4

Love how Cindy Williams and Ron Howard looked together at 2:12. What a bitchin' movie (as 'Debbie Dunham', brilliantly played by Candy Clark) would have said it! That soundtrack couldn't be beat for those who love doo-wop and classic rock before The Beatles and the British Invasion. "Almost Grown" hit #32 on the Hot 100, and #3 on the R&B charts.

freeguy77

1y↑1

@Own Petard Haha! I would have tried to do whatever to be with her, too! Can you believe she will be 73 (on Aug. 22, 2020)?

Own Petard

I would have sold insurance too if I could be with Cindy Williams

tlover1062

12y

Harvey Fuqua and Moonglows (with Marvin Gaye) are doing background on this one.

Donald Morrow

I first heard this one on his "Greatest Hits" album. I didn't know it then, but Chuck Berry was telling the story of my life (and I was just in my late teens at the time). He had this effect on me even then. God, Mr. Berry, I miss you already.

Jorge Mario Rodas

This is precisely what we feel when we are sixteen although I was thirteen when this song was released. I remember it is frustrating in some ways to feel one is almost an adult but not quite yet. You want to act like a man and sometimes still do childish things making girls laugh at you.

Handsome Package

5y↑7

One of my favorite Chuck Berry songs. RIP Chuck Berry

Gwen Ever

5y↑1

without Chuck Berry, rock 'n ' roll would not have existed. he's now at heavens gate demanding his fee in advance before he plays for the angels Rock In Peace dude!

Anto20220

Reprise en français par Eddy Mitchell " A crédit et en stéréo", j'ai les deux versions..

AssinnippiJack

The soundtrack from the film American Graffiti. My first rock and roll album. 1973.

sauquoit13456

9y↑1

On this day in 1959 {February 17th} Chuck Berry recorded "Almost Grown" in Chicago... One month later on March 30th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #32 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #3 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart... Back-up singers on the record included Etta James and the New Moonglows {one of the New Moonglows was Marvin Gay before he added the letter 'E'}... The B-side, "Little Queenie", also charted, it reached #80 on the Top 100

Trude Westlin

Ida älskar den här låten!!! RIP Chuck Berry

xtreme1982641

2y↑3

🎸 The true King of Rock N' Roll 🎸

R.I.P. Chuck

Parker Johnston

5y↑4

Rip chuck. you will always be missed.

danny b.

9y↑1

very honorable mentions: buddy holly, bill haley, elvis presley, jerry lee lewis & bo diddley

Niko here

6y↑8

Home alone 3 lol when Alex gets home and sees his chicken pox scars lol

Open Your Ears, Open Your Mind

4y↑4

This is my favorite song from him. It's a shame most of them sound so similar. You sort of have to pick your favorites of the clones.

Patrik Uosukainen

I couldn't have worded this better

filthyphillyboy

10y

I heard The Moonglows sung back up on this.

Eriberto Nunez

chuck[founding father of rock and roll] berry the true king of randr

Bethel Menil

I've been looking for this!!😀😀

dyad2r1

11y

Some sources credit Bill Haley as the original Rock & Roll man. See Wikipedia "Rock and Roll."

Tom Smith

7y↑1

There was no "First" Rock 'n' Roll record. It was an evolution of R&B and Country and Pop (Les Paul, Johnny Ray among others). Rock 'n' Roll was technology driven also. The introduction of the 45 rpm record, the invention of the transistor (made music portable), and the proliferation of Jukeboxes in places teenagers hung out after school pushed the new music forward.

elmer zu

11y

There are about 6 Chuck Berry songs that I'm familiar with and this is # 7, ha. The reason I say that is because I didn't hear this one but maybe once or twice. "No Particular Place to Go" & "You Never Can Tell", I heard more often. Anthony Boy is my Favorite by Chuck. It's too bad they don't have one radio set aside for a doowop weekend, where everything they play is from those early yrears of R&R prior to the English Invasion. That means we'd hear alot of Ricky, Bobby & Chucky.

Sands of time

6y↑48

1962 , fourteen years old and having a ball !

Patrick Lanny

4y↑6

58 and wishing I wasn't

Iam Justme

5y↑5

11 & wishing I was grown.

Roger Huff

6y↑10

+Sands of time thats the year i got married her name is caroline we just celebrated our 53rd anniversery

James Anderson

What Buddy Holly was playing at the time was called "Rock-A-Billy" later called Rock-in-Roll. So who do the music historians credit with having recorded the first song to be labeled under the rock-in-roll genre? One camp claims Ike Turners "Rocket 88" was the first rock-in-roll song. Others said it is Fats Domino with his song "The Fat Man" Because of the phenomenal success and influence of Fats Domino - plus his music had staying power - that honor goes to "The Fatman" :) Antoine "Fats" Domino.

gregshell

10y

goosebumps. doesn't happen very often.

Eriberto Nunez

9y↑5

I SAID IT ONCE!!!!!! THE FOUNDING FATHER OF ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!! NO ONE BETTER!!!!!

PAVN

11y

No, Marty Mcfly invented rock 'n roll, apparently.

ffdztdr

"Where were you in 62" I say "I have no clue where I was in 62".

elmer zu

10y

This is Chuck Berry alright!, I'd know him for his voice & style anyday..he's no Fats. It has always been a toss up with me as to which of the two was the bigger Top 40 artist, but one thing I know for sure is that it wasn't Little Richard. Rick Nelson believe it or not had a larger number of hits back when & yet the media/music industry said nothing as they stopped at Elvis as the King of R&R. He stilll is King when you think of all those movies he starred in besides Top 40 hits. Thx

ZomBradical

I love you. Nirvana was definitely Robin Hood.

Spooky Rascon

No one simply "invented" Rock n' Roll, that's hogwash. It developed over a span of 20 some years from pioneering R&B artists. Some of the first rock songs were in the 30s-40s. Pioneering RnR artists were Goree Carter, Jimmy Preston, and Arthur Crudup just to name a few.

piero pieri

4y↑2

Vi siete scaldati un po' con Memphis Tennessee?
Beh, allora fa per Voi!

onthegoldenline

Back up is by The Dells and Etta James.

David Farmer

25w↑1

"Here you go, Speedy.".

Hillary Chapman

chuck berry=awesome songwriter+fantastic recordings+child molester

Mike McNamara

8y↑2

The best Rock lyricist EVER!

Динар Гибаев

37w↑2

Alone Home 3👍😉

Austin Escalera

RIP

Jon Doe

10y

kool song

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