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Opus I: Sweet Home Chicago
(1:49) [3/26/98/6:45 am]
Adapted from "Sweet Home Chicago" By Robert Johnson (1936).
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Liner Notes
Come on, baby, don’t you wanna go?
Come on, baby, don’t you wanna go?
Back to that same old place: sweet home Chicago.
All the way to Mt. Zion,
I’ll get bitched out by them barred-window boys
Decrying my senseless violence
Over the bambulence siren’s noise.
I’ll just say, “Come on, little babies,
I know that you wanna go
Back to that Second City place: sweet home Chicago.”
It’ll be morning outside the ER.
Doc Green sews up the conductor.
That guy turns out the only survivor
Of “The Amtrack Massacre.”
So why don’t you come on, friend-boy?
Babe, I know you wanna go
Back to that Windy City place: sweet home, old Chi-Town-o.
The death toll was feared to be 14,
But 10 will be more like the sum.
I know, I’ll make out all right now (though
It’ll feel weird to not have my gun),
‘Cause I’m gonna be as famous as Oprah
As soon as my scalp's skin heals.
It’s back to that Babyllnoisan place: sweet home Chicago.
Ra-ta-tat-tat-ta-tat-tat, now! |
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The idea of hijacking/deconstructing a well-known standard originally
came to us via Violent Femmes’ insidious cover of “Do You
Really Want To Hurt Me?” Robert Johnson probably rolls in his grave,
but maybe Sunnyland Slim might’ve enjoyed some of these “kiss
bang” theatrics.
Justin Crain - Additional Drums
The Animals - “The Story Of Bo Diddley” / Marshall Crenshaw
- “Better Back Off” / Chris Isaak - “Graduation Day”
/ Steve Taylor - “Guilty By Association” & “We Don’t
Need No Colour Code” / The Blasters - “Common Man” /
Emerson Lake & Palmer - “Bo Diddley” / The Dead Kennedys
- “Looking Forward To Death” / The Pixies - “Subbacultcha”
“Radio’s
jammed up with talk show stations
It’s just talk, talk, talk 'till you lose your patience
Mister state trooper, please don’t stop me.”
- Bruce Springsteen, “State Trooper” (1982) |
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