Tom T. Hall - Windy City Anne video free download

"I'd like to know and understand your people, but I can't meet them all you understand. All I really know about Chicago, is what I learned from Windy City Anne." - Windy City Anne, by Tom T. Hall. See complete lyrics below.

Vocals: Tom T. Hall

Words and Music by: Tom T. Hall

Original Album: The Storyteller (Mercury Records - 1972)

Legal Copyright Owner: Universal Music Group - Nashville

Lyrics:

Chicago gets along so well without me

Thought I'd go to Indiana for awhile

The wind comes off the lake so cold it freezes

Chicago didn't try to make me smile

She told me that she was a Spanish gypsy

A black band 'round her neck to prove her race

She said she'd like to do some drinking with me

But the dishes were all dirty at her place

CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people

But I can't meet them all you understand

All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne

I guess she taught me some about Chicago

There were lines of discontent there in her face

For what she helped me know about Chicago

I helped her do the dishes at her place

The sounds of old Chicago through the window

I gathered up my thoughts to meet the day

I stayed and helped her dirty up the dishes

Remembering I found them all that way

CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people

But I can't meet them all you understand

All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne

The bus pulled out for Fort Wayne Indiana

Chicago slowly faded out of sight

I suppose that people are just people

It was just another Windy City night

CHORUS: I'd like to know and understand your people

But I can't meet them all you understand

All I really know about Chicago is what I learned from Windy City Anne

SPOKEN: And I learned a lot from Windy City Anne