Sweet Home Chicago by Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin and Others (Live)


“Sweet Home Chicago” is a popular blues standard in the twelve-bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson. Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson’s original lyrics.

It’s amazing how blues is universal and timeless. Just look at all those people from all around the world playing a song from the ’30s written by a man who was an almost total stranger at the time.

Lyrics:
Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago

Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago

Two and two is four, babe
Four into two is eight
Come on now girl, don’t you now make me late
And I’ve got to leave

Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago
One and one is two
Two and two is four
I’m here lonely, I hook and I gotta go
And I cry please
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago

Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago

Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go
Come on
Baby, don’t you wanna go home
Back from the land of California
To my sweet home Chicago

Songwriters: Robert Johnson
Sweet Home Chicago lyrics © The Bicycle Music Company

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