Down Home Special Trk 24 Disc 1
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(Ellas McDaniel)
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Bo Diddley
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Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar, Willie Dixon - bass
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Clifton James - drums, Jody Williams - guitar
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Jerome Greene - maracas. Recorded October 1956
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Chicago, originally Checker #850.
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Transcriber: [email protected]
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Album: Bo Diddley 'I'm A Man - The Chess Masters 1955-1958'
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B0009231-02 Hipo Select (Geffen) 2007
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<train whistle intro & between verses>
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'All Aboard!'
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Bo Spoken w/engineer responding)
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Let me get in here and get me a ticket.
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Say man, look here, is this the Down Home Special?
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(Yes!)
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Well, gimme a ticket then, man.
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(What ticket, man?)
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A ticket to McComb, Mississippi.
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(McComb?)
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Yeah, McComb.
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(I thought you was goin' to Appaloosa)
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Ha, ha, ha, Yeah, I'm goin' to Appaloosa, alright.
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The train goin' through there but I ain't gettin' off!
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(<beep-beep, toot-toot>
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Sings:
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I'm goin' home to see my babe, fair
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I'm goin' home, see my baby
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I'm goin' home, see my baby
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And I don't, doggone, mean maybe
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Been workin' like I never did before
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Just made a lot of money
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To get to my baby's door
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Been through Appaloosa
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Been to Tennessee
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Been up in a airplane
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Even out on the sea
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I can't find a woman
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To satis-satisfy me
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Got a woman in the country
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One in the city, too
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I have got to find a woman
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That thrill me through and through
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I'm goin' home, see my baby
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I'm goin' home to see my baby
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I'm goin' home to see my baby
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And I don't, don't, mean maybe
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(McComb!)
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Travel two days
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And two nights long
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Snow, storm, rainy weather
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Get back in yo' arms
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I'm goin' home to see my baby
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I'm goin' home to see my baby
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(All arrive for McComb!)
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(McComb!)
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FADES-
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(All arrive for McComb).
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Down Home Special
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| Bo Diddley |
