Biography:
Tony Joe White (Oak Grove, Louisiana, July 23, 1943 - October 24, 2018) was an American swamp rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who is a friend of White.
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Other songs:
- Aint Going Down This Time
- Always The Song
- As The Crow Flies
- Backside Of Paradise
- Backwoods Preacher Man
- Bayou Woman
- Billy
- Closer To The Truth
- Clovis Green
- Delta Love
- Down By The Border
- Georgia Pines
- Goin Down Rockin
- High Horse
- High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parrish
- I Believe Ive Lost My Way
- I Get Off On It
- I Just Walked Away
- Ice Cream Man
- Lake Placid Blues
- Louisiana Rain
- Polk Salad Annie
- Rainy Night In Georgia
- Red Neck Women
- Robbin My Honeycomb
- Roosevelt And Ira Lee
- Save Your Sugar For Me
- Scratch My Back
- Soul Francisco
- Steamy Windows
- Susie Q
- The Guitar Dont Lie
- Tunica Motel
- Undercover Agent For The Blues
- Who You Ganna Hoodoo Now
- Willie And Laura Mae Jones
- Yo Yo Man
- Youre Gonna Look Good In Blues
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I Just Walked Away:Tony Joe White.
WARNER BROS. Records in 1971.
#1.
G C
I walked out of your apartment, I left you
D G
sleeping on your bed.
D G F C
I wanted to look back over my shoulder, but
G
I did not turn my head.
#2.
G C
We had a good arrangement, yes, we did.
G
But now I felt the need to move.
D Gbm G Em
But things had not worked out like I planned,
D C G
cause I've become attached to you.
CHORUS:
D G D Em7
There was no way to tell you, baby, all the
D Em
things I had to say..so, I just walked away.
INTERLUDE: Am Em D Em D
#3.
G C D C
Mistin' rain had started falling, the kind
Gbm G D
that chills you to the bone.
G D F C
And I had a soulful feeling, but it did not
G
stay too long.
C
Oh, I knew I had it coming, but I believe it'd
G
come and gone.
D G Em D
And this lonesome feeling inside me, makes me
C G
know I stayed too long.
CHORUS:
D G D Em7
There was no way to tell you, baby, all the
D Em
things I had to say..so, I just walked away.
INTERLUDE: Em Bb Em A Em
#4.
Em D Em D Em
I left you baby, ooooo, I hated to go, but I just
could not explain the way I felt about it.
Am Em
Oooo, baby, ooo, I left you, I hated to leave you
D Em
sleeping on your bed, when you needed me most.
Am Em
Ooo, I left you.
#5.
B Em
A mistin' rain was falling, the kind that chills
Am Em
you when you need somebody to lay beside you.
E Em
And that's the time that I picked to leave you
and I hated to go.
Em
But it just couldn't tell you the way I felt about
the situation.
OUTRO:
Em A
Oooo, ooo, baby, I wanted so bad to find some way
Em
of just coming out and telling you that I did not
want to love you so much.
Em7 Em
Oh, but I just couldn't, so I just walked away.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
WARNER BROS. Records in 1971.
#1.
G C
I walked out of your apartment, I left you
D G
sleeping on your bed.
D G F C
I wanted to look back over my shoulder, but
G
I did not turn my head.
#2.
G C
We had a good arrangement, yes, we did.
G
But now I felt the need to move.
D Gbm G Em
But things had not worked out like I planned,
D C G
cause I've become attached to you.
CHORUS:
D G D Em7
There was no way to tell you, baby, all the
D Em
things I had to say..so, I just walked away.
INTERLUDE: Am Em D Em D
#3.
G C D C
Mistin' rain had started falling, the kind
Gbm G D
that chills you to the bone.
G D F C
And I had a soulful feeling, but it did not
G
stay too long.
C
Oh, I knew I had it coming, but I believe it'd
G
come and gone.
D G Em D
And this lonesome feeling inside me, makes me
C G
know I stayed too long.
CHORUS:
D G D Em7
There was no way to tell you, baby, all the
D Em
things I had to say..so, I just walked away.
INTERLUDE: Em Bb Em A Em
#4.
Em D Em D Em
I left you baby, ooooo, I hated to go, but I just
could not explain the way I felt about it.
Am Em
Oooo, baby, ooo, I left you, I hated to leave you
D Em
sleeping on your bed, when you needed me most.
Am Em
Ooo, I left you.
#5.
B Em
A mistin' rain was falling, the kind that chills
Am Em
you when you need somebody to lay beside you.
E Em
And that's the time that I picked to leave you
and I hated to go.
Em
But it just couldn't tell you the way I felt about
the situation.
OUTRO:
Em A
Oooo, ooo, baby, I wanted so bad to find some way
Em
of just coming out and telling you that I did not
want to love you so much.
Em7 Em
Oh, but I just couldn't, so I just walked away.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
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