Mavis Staples - Chicago Lyrics

Mavis Staples Lyrics

"Chicago"
(originally by Tom Waits)

All the seeds are planted here
But they won't grow
We won't have to say goodbye
If we all go
To Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago

To leave all we've ever known
For a place we've never seen
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago

Well it's brave for us to stay
Even braver to go away
Wherever they go I go
Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Chicago

What we need the lord will give us
All we want we carry with us
You know where I can be found
Where the rainbow hits the ground
I'm not alone, not afraid
Not alone, not afraid
'Cause this bird
Little bird
This bird
Left his cage

There's so much magic we have known
On this sapphire we call home
With my coat and my hat
I say goodbye to all of that

Maybe things will be better
Things will be better
Things will be better
In Chicago
Maybe things will be better in Chicago

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Writer(s): Kathleen Brennan, Thomas Alan Waits

album: "Sad And Beautiful World" (2025)

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