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Bo Diddley - Down Home Special

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Down Home Special Trk 24 Disc 1
(Ellas McDaniel)
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar, Willie Dixon - bass
Clifton James - drums, Jody Williams - guitar
Jerome Greene - maracas. Recorded October 1956
Chicago, originally Checker #850.
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Album: Bo Diddley `I`m A Man - The Chess Masters 1955-1958`
B0009231-02 Hipo Select (Geffen) 2007



<train whistle intro & between verses>

`All Aboard!`

Bo Spoken w/engineer responding)

Let me get in here and get me a ticket.
Say man, look here, is this the Down Home Special?
(Yes!)
Well, gimme a ticket then, man.
(What ticket, man?)
A ticket to McComb, Mississippi.
(McComb?)
Yeah, McComb.
(I thought you was goin` to Appaloosa)
Ha, ha, ha, Yeah, I`m goin` to Appaloosa, alright.
The train goin` through there but I ain`t gettin` off!

(<beep-beep, toot-toot>

Sings:
I`m goin` home to see my babe, fair
I`m goin` home, see my baby
I`m goin` home, see my baby
And I don`t, doggone, mean maybe

Been workin` like I never did before
Just made a lot of money
To get to my baby`s door

Been through Appaloosa
Been to Tennessee
Been up in a airplane
Even out on the sea
I can`t find a woman
To satis-satisfy me

Got a woman in the country
One in the city, too
I have got to find a woman
That thrill me through and through

I`m goin` home, see my baby
I`m goin` home to see my baby
I`m goin` home to see my baby
And I don`t, don`t, mean maybe

(McComb!)

Travel two days
And two nights long
Snow, storm, rainy weather
Get back in yo` arms

I`m goin` home to see my baby
I`m goin` home to see my baby

(All arrive for McComb!)
(McComb!)

FADES-
(All arrive for McComb).

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