0018 – Almost grown - Chuck Berry (1959)

Compositor: Chuck Berry

• Foi gravada em 17 de fevereiro de 1959, no Chess Studios, em Chicago, Illinois e lançada em 1959 em um compacto que tinha Little Queenie como Lado B.
  
  
• Chuck tocou guitarra e cantou. Johnnie Johnson tocou piano, Willie Dixon tocou baixo, Fred Below tocou bateria. O backing vocal foi feito por Etta James e por Harvey and The New Moonglows, que tinha o jovem Marvin Gaye. 
   
• Foi regravada pelos Animals, entre outros artistas. 
   
• Chegou ao número 3 do Billboard R&B e número 32 no Billboard Hot100.

A letra:

(Wow wow) You know I'm almost grown (Wow wow)

Yeah and 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 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 living 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

Almost grown com Chuck Berry, original, de 1959, somente áudio: 



Chuck Berry com Keith Richards mandando Almost grown ao vivo na década de 1980:



Almost grown com David Bowie ao vivo na BBC em 1970, somente áudio: