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Move to Kansas City

by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

on Brownie McGhee Blues (1955), Cripple Creek (2009)

Well, the river (is), long, deep and wide
Woman I love, on the other side
I'm gonna move to Kansas City
I'm gonna move to Kansas City
Gonna move, baby, honey
Where they don't want you
Well, if I was a catfish swimmin' in the sea
Have all these women !ishin' after me

Takes a rockin' chair to rock, rubber ball to roll
A brownskin woman to satisfy my soul

If I were a jaybird flyin' in the air
Build me a nest in some good girl's hair