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Five O'Clock World (G)(WORD)
Five O'Clock World (G)(PDF)
To play along with the recording in GCEA tuning, put your capo on the 9th fret. There's differing ideas about what the Vogues are singing in the back-up - is it "Hey!" all the way through, OR is it "Hey" in the opening and then switching to "Up!" - I'm going to go with "hey!".
"Five O'Clock World" reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM singles chart on 10 January 1966 (their first of two chart-toppers there that year, followed by "Magic Town" in April), and number 4 in the U.S. on the Hot 100 on 15–22 January 1966 and is one of the Vogues' best-known hits, along with "You're the One".