Downhome Special - Bo Diddley

Clifton James — drums, Jody Williams — guitar

Jerome Greene — maracas.

Recorded October 1956

Chicago, originally Checker #850.

Album: Bo Diddley 'I'm A Man — The Chess Masters 1955−1958'

B0009231−02 Hipo Select (Geffen) 2007

'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!

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).