London Homesick Blues

artist:Jerry Jeff Walker

, writer:Gary P Numm

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 {t:London Homesick Blues}
{artist: Jerry Jeff Walker}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhN2E4hRDKk 
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[G] Well, when you're down on your luck, 
And you ain't got a buck, in [D] London you're a goner.
Even [Am7] London Bridge has [D7] fallen down, 
And [G] moved to Ari-[G7]zona, now I know [C] why.          
And I'll substantiate the rumor 
That the English sense of humor, is [G] drier than than the Texas sand.          
You can [Em] put up your dukes, 
And you can [A7] set your boots; I'm [D] leavin' just as fast as I [D7] can.          

{soc}
I wanna go [C] home with the [G] armadillo [Am]           
Good country [C] music from Ama-[D]rillo and Abi-[G]lene          
The friendliest [C] people and the prettiest [D] women you've ever [G] seen.          
{eoc}
Well, it's cold over here, and I swear
I [D] wish they'd turn the heat on [D7] 
And [Am7] where in the world is that English girl
I [G] promised I would meet ... on the third [C] floor.          
And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I've got
Is a [G] smoke and a cheap guitar.          
My [Em] mind keeps roamin', my [A7] heart keeps longin'
To be [D] home in a Texas [D7] bar.          

{soc}
I wanna go [C] home with the [G] armadillo [Am]           
Good country [C] music from Ama-[D]rillo and Abi-[G]lene          
The friendliest [C] people and the prettiest [D] women you've ever [G] seen.          
{eoc}
{sos}
I wanna go [C] home with the [G] armadillo [Am]           
Good country [C] music from Ama-[D]rillo and Abi-[G]lene          
The friendliest [C] people and the prettiest [D] women you've ever [G] seen. 
{eos}
Well, I decided that I'd get my cowboy hat
And [D]  go down to Marble Arch Station.     
'Cause when a Texan fancies, he'll take his chances.
[G] Chances will be taken, that's for [C] sure.          
And them Limey eyes, they were eyein' the prize
That some [G] people call manly footwear.          
And they said [Em] you're from down South, and when you [A7] open your mouth,
You [D] always seem to put your foot there.          

{soc}
I wanna go [C] home with the [G] armadillo [Am]           
Good country [C] music from Ama-[D]rillo and Abi-[G]lene          
The friendliest [C] people and the prettiest [D] women you've ever [G] seen.          
{eoc}
{c:Repeat chorus 'til the cows come home}
{soc}
I wanna go [C] home with the [G] armadillo [Am]           
Good country [C] music from Ama-[D]rillo and Abi-[G]lene          
The friendliest [C] people and the prettiest [D] women you've ever [G] seen.          
{eoc}

Song Info

Title: London Homesick Blues

Artist: Jerry Jeff Walker

Writer: Gary P Numm

Song Types: Country

Key: G

Info: When Gary P. Nunn, an Austin bass player and pianist, went to London in 1973 to back fellow Texan Michael Martin Murphey, he stuck out like a cactus on a moor. While Murphey met with the press and went sightseeing with his English wife, Nunn stayed behind in her brother's Hyde Park flat, sleeping on the couch and watching TV. It wasn't particularly cozy�"the heat came on only at night�"but the foreigner had little money and nowhere to go. When he did venture outside, he felt even more alone. Nunn remembers, "I would go out in my boots and cowboy hat that attracted a lot of attention, comments like, 'Hey, cowboy, where's your 'orse?' and 'Look, it's John Wayne.' " And watching the buskers at the Marble Arch tube station made him homesick for his hippie musician friends.

One day, playing guitar in the flat, he started singing, "Well, it's cold over here, and I swear, I wish they would turn the heat on." Nunn hadn't written much before ( "a couple of cosmic rock and roll things," he says), but he decided to try his hand at an actual country song. His experiences rolled out, from the local girl who'd stood him up to the limeys eyeing his boots to his longing to be "home with the armadillos" ("the term I applied to the folks in the counterculture scene in Austin," he explains).

That summer, Nunn was back in Texas, recording the ¡Viva Terlingua! album with Jerry Jeff Walker in front of an audience in Luckenbach. While the tape was rolling, Walker, who had heard Nunn playing his new song earlier in the day, asked him to sing it. The band had never rehearsed "London Homesick Blues," but they followed along, finishing to rapturous applause. Then, because the sound crew hadn't caught it all, they played it again, capturing an ineffable moment as well as the lonesome feeling of being far from home. In 1977 the song became the theme to Austin City Limits, setting it up to be one of the most well-known songs about Texas. "It was just an exercise in writing a song," says Nunn. "I never imagined anything would come of it."

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artist:Jerry Jeff Walker

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