sweet home chicago lyrics

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lyrics to "sweet home chicago":

1. Oh, - baby, don't you want to go?
Oh, - baby, don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California - to my sweet home Chicago.
2. (repeat of first verse)
3. Now one and one is two - two and two is four,
I'm heavy loaded, baby, - I'm booked, I got to go.
Cryin', baby - honey, don't you wnat to go?
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.
4. Now two nad two is four - four and two is six,
You gon' keep on monkeyin' 'round here friend-boy
you gon' get your business all in a trick, but I'm cryin'
Baby - honey, don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.
5. Now six and two is eight - eight and two is ten,
Friend-boy, she trick you one time, she sure gon' do it again.
But I'm cryin' hey, hey - baby, don't you want to go?
To the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.
6. I'm goin' to California - from there to Des Moines, Iowa(y)-
Somebody there will tell me that you need my help someday, cryin'
Hey, hey - baby, don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.

Robert Johnson's original recording was in F#, capoed at the second fret
of his guitar.

the "land of California" refers to California during the gold rush,
Where gold was imagined to by lying on the ground. Johnson appears to
be inviting "his" woman to go with him to the land of golden
opportunity, which was Chicago for a blues musician in his time.

Rich.

"I want to die with my hands around the neck of a white man"
- Miles Davis

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