Janis Joplin
Kansas City Blues lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1975
- Genre
- Rock
- Length
- 3:23
Let's see, now, I'm tryin' to...
You want me to full 12 bar break in the beginning?
Let's try that again
It takes a rockin' chair to rock
It takes a riverboat to roll
And it takes the man I love
Honey, to satisfy my soul
I'm goin' to Kansas City
Yeah, I'm goin' to Kansas City
I'm goin' to Kansas City, baby
Where they don't allow alcohol
I walk up 18th Street, where that other woman stays
Well, I want my man
I better change my ways
Hon, I'm leavin'
Yeah, I'm leavin' this mornin'
Hon, I'm leavin'
I'm tryin' to find a man of my own
Well, I get too drinkin'
I wanna buy a gab gun
I'm gonna find me my man
He'll bet a hench fella better run
Hon, I'm gonna leave
Yeah, I'm leavin' this mornin'
Mm, mm, I'm leavin', Lord
Tryin' to find a man of my own
Well, I brag on my daddy to every woman I see
Now, those same damn women are tryin' to steal him from me
Hon, I'm leavin'
Yeah, I'm leavin' this mornin'
Hon, I'm leavin'
I'm tryin' to find a man of my own
It takes a rockin' chair to rock
It takes a riverboat to roll
It takes the man I love
Honey, to satisfy my soul
I'm goin' to Kansas City
I'm goin' to Kansas City
Goin' to Kansas City
To bring Jim Jackson home
Ba, da, da
All right
Everybody ready on the typewriter?
One, two
Key vocabulary
- allow
- let; permitA2
- better
- more good; improvedA1
- buy
- get by paying moneyA1
- i'm
- I amC2
- tryin
- trying (informal)
- again
- one more timeA1
- don't
- do notA1
- alcohol
- drinking spirit; ethanolB1
- th
- letter sound
- hon
- used to attract attention
About this song
Janis Joplin was an American rock and blues singer from Port Arthur, Texas. Known for her powerful, emotionally charged vocal style, she led Big Brother and the Holding Company and later pursued a solo career that defined late-1960s rock, with albums including Cheap Thrills and Pearl released after her death in 1970.