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Buddy Holly Everyday
On The Acoustic

Welcome to my Buddy Holly Everyday page you'll find the lyrics to this song, a free pdf chords and lyrics sheet along with tutorial demos and a link to purchase full lessons in .mp4 format.

Buddy Holly Everyday
Chords, Lyrics, Demo, Tutorial

Everyday was co-written by Buddy Holly with Norman Petty and recorded the song with The Crickets in May 1957. The song was released on the B-side of Peggy Sue.

The song can be found on the album "Buddy Holly". There is no mention of The Crickets as being on this recording but it was recorded with Joe B Mauldin, who was the bass player and Jerry Allison who was the drummer for The Crickets. In this recording Jerry is slapping his knee for the drum beat. Norman's wife Vi, played the Celesta, which looks like a keyboard but has a glockenspiel sound.

Many well known artists have covered this song and those include, John Denver, Tina Robin, Bobby Vee, James Taylor, Bridget St John, Don McLean, Nikki Richards, Erasure, The Trashmen, Rogue Wave, Pearl Jam, Deep Purple, Elliott Murphy, Peter White, Pearl Jam, and Patrick Stump.

The song has also shown up in several films including Mischief, Stand By Me, Big Fish, Love Happens, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Mr. Nobody and Gummo. It's also been featured in several TV shows including an episode of Family Guy.

Download the free Buddy Holly Everyday chords and lyrics sheet below.

Everyday Lyrics

Everyday - it's a-gettin' faster
Everyone said, "Go ahead and ask her"
Love like yours will - surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey hey

Everyday - it’s a getting faster
Everyone says go ahead and ask her
Love like yours will - surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey hey

Everyday seems a little longer
Every way - love's a little stronger
Come what may - do you ever long for
True love from me?

Everyday, it's a-gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will - surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey hey

Break

Everyday seems a little longer
Every way - love's a little stronger
Come what may - do you ever long for
True love from me?

Everyday, it's a-gettin' closer
Goin' faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will - surely come my way
A-hey, a-hey hey

Love like yours will - surely come my way

Download the free Buddy Holly Everyday chords and lyrics sheet below.

Chords & Lyrics

Everyday Tips

The original key for this song is D#, but for my vocal range that didn't work, so I'm down in G for this one. Other chords needed are Em, Am7, D7, C, F, A#, Eb. The rhythm pattern I'm using is a down up stop up and repeat as you move through the chords. It appears that I'm playing a steady up and down pattern, which you can do also, but if you look closely, the one down-stroke is a mute on the strings which equates to a snare drum beat.

As mentioned above, the lead break in this is from a Celesta but you can play this break on virtually any instrument including guitar as I'm doing here. I'm basically playing the melody line, but the rhythm here is a steady up and down. The muting resumes when I start singing once more.

Thanks for stopping by this Buddy Holly Everyday page and I hope the info here was useful and helpful.

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