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Favorite Songs about Chicago


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Dear Chicago,

You'll never guess.

You know the girl you said I'd meet someday?

Well, I've got something to confess.

She picked me up on Friday.

Asked me if she reminded me of you.

I just laughed and lit a cigarette,

Said "that's impossible to do."

My life's gotten simple since.

And it fluctuates so much.

Happy and sad and back again.

I'm not crying out to much.

Think about you all the time.

It's strange and hard to deal.

Think about you lying there.

And those blankets lie so still.

Nothing breathes here in the cold.

Nothing moves or even smiles.

I've been thinking some of suicide.

But there's bars out here for miles.

Sorry about the every kiss.

Every kiss you wasted (bad / back)

I think the thing you said was true,

I'm going to die alone and sad.

 

The wind's feeling real these days.

Yeah, baby, it hurt's me some.

Never thought I'd feel so blue.

New York City, you're almost gone.

I think that I've fallen out of love,

I think I've fallen out of love . . . with you.

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My daddy was a cop

On the East Side of Chicago

Back in the USA

Back in the bad old days.

 

In the heat of a summer night

In the land of the Dollar Bill

When the town of Chicago died

And they talk about it still

 

When a man named Al Capone

Tried to make that town his own

And he called his gang to war

With the forces of the law

 

Chorus:

I heard my momma cry

I heard to pray the night Chicago died

Brother what a night the people saw

Brother what a fight the people saw

Yes indeed.

 

And the sound of the battle rang

Through the streets of the old East Side

Till the last of the hoodlum gang

Had surrendered up or died.

 

There was shouting in the street

And the sound of running feet

And I asked someone who said

"About one hundred cops were dead."

 

Chorus:

 

And then there was no sound at all

But the clock upon the wall

Tick tock, tick tock

And then the door burst open wide

And my daddy stepped inside

And he kissed my momma's face

And he brushed her tears away.

 

Chorus:

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For real

 

Take me back to Chicago

Lay my soul to rest

Where my life was free and easy

Remember me at my best.

 

Take me back to Chicago

Where music was all I had

I tried to be good as I could

And sometimes that made me sad.

 

Take me back to Chicago, to Chicago

Why don't you take me back

Take me back, take me back

To Chicago.

 

I still dream of the Lake of peacefulness

The warm summer breeze

'Cause my life was so much simpler then

Street corners and Tastee Freeze.

 

Take me back to Chicago

'Cause hustlin's not my style

LA was just a bit too hard

I wish I could be a child

 

Livin' back in Chicago, in Chicago

Why don't you take me back

Take me back, take me back

To Chicago.

 

Take me back to Chicago

Lay my soul to rest

Where my life was free and easy

Remember me at my best.

 

Take me back to Chicago

'Cause hustlin's not my style

LA was just a bit too hard

I wish I could be a child.

 

Livin' back in Chicago, in Chicago

Why don't you take me back

Take me back, take me back

To Chicago.

 

Take me back, take me back....

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I was flying into Chicago at night

Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke

The sun was setting to the left of the plane

And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow

In 27-D I was behind the wing

Watching landscape roll out

Like credits on a screen

The earth looked like it was lit from within

Like a poorly assembled electrical ball as we moved

Out of the farmlands into the grid

The plan of the city was all that you saw

And all of these people sitting totally still

As the ground raced beneath them thirty thousand feet down

 

It took an hour, maybe a day

But once I really listened, the noise

Just went away

 

.....Liz Phair.

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Guest JimH
Now for something really interesting, how about favorite Chicago beers?

 

 

New:

 

1. Two Bros. Ebel Weiss (ok, it's made in Warrenville)

2. Goose Island IPA

 

Old:

 

1. Old Chicago (made at the old Meister Brau brewery @ North/Sheffield)

 

Other than brewpub beers there really aren't many being made in Chicago.

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