John Lee Hooker - On Campus

Birmingham Blues

I ain't goin' down to Birmingham by myself
I ain't goin' down to Birmingham by myself
If I go, gonna take someone with me
Give me an airplane, fly over Birmingham
Give me an airplane and fly over Birmingham
Drop me a bomb, keep on flyin' home

I feel so bad, I read about Birmingham, I feel so bad
I read, read about Birmingham
Or, do I know about things, a man is just a man
God made the land
He give the land and no one, and no one, land

And God made everybody equal
Equal, equal
I don't know why Birmingham treat, treat people the way they do
But I ain't goin' down to Birmingham by myself
I tried, yeah

One thing I do know
Our president, he out doin' everything he can
For every man, equal right
It takes time, I do know
But one day, Birmingham, Mississippi, and Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky
All them states, Arkansas, will fall in line



Credits
Writer(s): John Lee Hooker
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

  1. I'm Leaving
  2. Love Is a Burning Thing
  3. Birmingham Blues
  4. I Want To Shout
  5. Don't Look Back
  6. I Want To Hug You
  7. Poor Me
  8. I Want To Ramble
  9. Half a Stranger
  10. My Grinding Mill

All Album Tracks: On Campus >

Altri album

  1. Burning Hell (Remastered 2024)
  2. Burnin' (Expanded Edition)
  3. Let's Make It (Mono And Stereo Mixes)
  4. Blues Before Sunrise (Mono And Stereo Mixes)
  5. Boom Boom (Mono And Stereo Mixes)
  6. Live At Montreux 1990
  7. Live At Montreux 1983
  8. I'm In The Mood (Live)
  9. I Didn't Know (Live)
  10. Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948-1952

All Albums of John Lee Hooker >

© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy

Rockol

  • Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
  • Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
  • Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
  • Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
  • Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.