"I'd like to know and understand your people, but I can't meet them all you understand. All I really know about Chicago, is what I learned from Windy City Anne." - Windy City Anne, by Tom T. Hall. See complete lyrics below.
Vocals: Tom T. Hall
Words and Music by: Tom T. Hall
Original Album: The Storyteller (Mercury Records - 1972)
Legal Copyright Owner: Universal Music Group - Nashville
Lyrics:
Chicago gets along so well without me
Thought I'd go to Indiana for awhile
The wind comes off the lake so cold it freezes
Chicago didn't try to make me smile
She told me that she was a Spanish gypsy
A black band 'round her neck to prove her race
She said she'd like to do some drinking with me
But the dishes were all dirty at her place
CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people
But I can't meet them all you understand
All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne
I guess she taught me some about Chicago
There were lines of discontent there in her face
For what she helped me know about Chicago
I helped her do the dishes at her place
The sounds of old Chicago through the window
I gathered up my thoughts to meet the day
I stayed and helped her dirty up the dishes
Remembering I found them all that way
CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people
But I can't meet them all you understand
All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne
The bus pulled out for Fort Wayne Indiana
Chicago slowly faded out of sight
I suppose that people are just people
It was just another Windy City night
CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people
But I can't meet them all you understand
All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne
SPOKEN: And I learned a lot from Windy City Anne
29 июл 2011
