Biography:
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards. Rickie Lee Jones is a singer songwriter whose style leans on jazz and pop/R&B timing and personification.
Jones settled in LA at the age of nineteen, doing the classic waiting tables stuff until she landed a recording contract with Warners.
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Night Train
Rickie Lee Jones
Intro: E (single note e)
E
Here I'm going -- Walkin' with my baby in my arms
A E
'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black
G#m7 C#m A
And the devil, ------ see, he's right behind us
F#m7 A
And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby
E
My little angel back --
C#m7 G#m7 C#m
But they won't getcha - no
E G#m7 B C#m E
'Cuz I'm right here witcha -- On the Night --- Train
C#m7 E A E F#m7 E C#m7 E A
B7 Amaj7
E
Swing low, Saint Cadillac -- Tearin' down the alley
A
And I'm reachin' so high for ya -- Don't let 'em take me back
E
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain -- That cry and quiver
G#m7 C#m7 A
When a blue ------ horizon is sleeping in the station
E
With a ticket for a train -- Surely mine will deliver me there
E G#m7 B C#m E
Here she comes ---------------- I'm safe here with you
G#m7 B C#m7 E B C#m
On the Night ---- Train ------ Oh mamma, mamma,
E
Concrete is wheeling by -- Down at the end of a lullaby
B C#m7 C#m A E
On the Night Train.
Rickie Lee Jones
Intro: E (single note e)
E
Here I'm going -- Walkin' with my baby in my arms
A E
'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black
G#m7 C#m A
And the devil, ------ see, he's right behind us
F#m7 A
And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby
E
My little angel back --
C#m7 G#m7 C#m
But they won't getcha - no
E G#m7 B C#m E
'Cuz I'm right here witcha -- On the Night --- Train
C#m7 E A E F#m7 E C#m7 E A
B7 Amaj7
E
Swing low, Saint Cadillac -- Tearin' down the alley
A
And I'm reachin' so high for ya -- Don't let 'em take me back
E
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain -- That cry and quiver
G#m7 C#m7 A
When a blue ------ horizon is sleeping in the station
E
With a ticket for a train -- Surely mine will deliver me there
E G#m7 B C#m E
Here she comes ---------------- I'm safe here with you
G#m7 B C#m7 E B C#m
On the Night ---- Train ------ Oh mamma, mamma,
E
Concrete is wheeling by -- Down at the end of a lullaby
B C#m7 C#m A E
On the Night Train.
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