Sweet - Windy City Lyrics
Listen to you
Listen to me
No one knows the reason
Why they wanna be free
Workin' all night
Waitin' for my money
And I can't get away
I wanna be rich man
But I'm only poor man
I got to get away
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
I've got to get away from windy city
Your mama's a whore
No one understands you
Couldn't help bein' poor
But when I get rich
I'll get my kicks
From givin' it all away
Wanna be free
'Cause livin' ain't easy
Wanna be free
I gotta be free
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
Gotta be free
Now I'm a rich man
Gotta be free
Don't wanna be this man
I gotta be free
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
I've got to get away from windy city
I don't wanna be a poor man
Don't wanna be a rich man
I gotta be free
I wanna be free
Other Lyrics by Artist
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- Sweet - When Friends Fall Out
- Sweet - Red Tape
- Sweet - Marshall Stack
- Sweet - Mind
- Sweet - Natural
- Sweet - Nouveau Rock Star
- Sweet - Stand Up
- Sweet - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
- Sweet - Is It True
- Sweet - Dangerous Game
- Sweet - Airheads!
- Sweet - Never Say Forever
- Sweet - You're Crazy
- Sweet - Leap Of Faith
- Sweet - Everything
- Sweet - Do It All Over Again
- Sweet - Sweetlife
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Sweet Windy City Comments
Ein super Lied von sweet was ich immer geliebt habe Udo König
Софья Бреннер только что.
Это нечто!!! Не реально, крутая
Музыка!!! Просто, Фантастика!!!
Авангардный Рок!!! Захватывает
целиком и полностью, Восхищению нет предела!!!
Да Здравствует, Sweet!!!
Жить, тебе, в веках!!!
Sounds like kiss...love brian conally vocals
I killed a shit load of brain cells to this getting ready for school.
Fookin´brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can only be loud, very loud!!!!!
Sweet really rocking out
Proof positive this band could rock as hard and heavy as just about any of the other 1970s heavy rock behemoths. Great sound, great vocals, fantastic riff and great playing.
Way ahead of its time , SWEET :)
They had at least 40 Epic songs,from Funny,Funny to Hold Me
Incredible song !
2019 and it still makes me fly.
This is sooo good could you imagine Priest covering it? I can! Before their time.
When you play this in your car stereo damn near full blast , you tend to really understand what a beast Mick Tucker was.
Yep world class it weaves SWEET's sound tightly together He's there in every break , fill tempo change prog sections cymbal work you name it!!
Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, yeah. (I know that's Andy Scott, but similarities..)
Listen to you
Listen to me
No one knows the reason
Why they wanna be free
Workin' all night
Workin' all day
Waitin' for my money
And I can't get away
I wanna be rich man
But I'm only poor man
I got to get away
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
I've got to get away from windy city
Your dad's in the slam
Your mama's a whore
No one understands you
Couldn't help bein' poor
But when I get rich
I'll get my kicks
From givin' it all away
Wanna be free
'Cause livin' ain't easy
Wanna be free
Cause that's how it's gonna be
I gotta be free
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
Gotta be free
Now I'm a rich man
Gotta be free
Don't wanna be this man
I gotta be free
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
I've got to get away from windy city
I don't wanna be a poor man
Don't wanna be a rich man
I gotta be free
I wanna be free
Woman from Tokyoooooooo, uuuuuu
I love this song. The middle mellow part always gives me a very nostalgic and almost sad feeling.
When the synth doodling builds to a crescendo at very end gets me everytime its pure musical genius SWEET IS ETERNAL
LYRICS:
Listen to you
Listen to me
No one knows the reason
Why they wanna be free
Workin' all night
Workin' all day
Waitin' for my money
And I can't get away
I wanna be rich man
But I'm only poor man
I got to get away
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
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I've got to get away from windy city
Your dad's in the slam
Your mama's a whore
No one understands you
Couldn't help bein' poor
But when I get rich
I'll get my kicks
From givin' it all away.
Wanna be free
'Cause livin' ain't easy.
Wanna be free,
Cause that's how it's gonna be.
I gotta be free!
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city,
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city
------- ------- -------
(INSTRUMENTAL)
Gotta be free
Now I'm a rich man.
Gotta be free
Don't wanna be this man.
I gotta be free
Waitin' for the risin' sun to shine on windy city,
You can find a place to hide yourself in windy city.
------- ------- -------
I've got to get away from windy city
I don't wanna be a poor man
Don't wanna be a rich man
I gotta be free
I wanna be free
Låtskrivare: Brian Connolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest och Mick Tucker.
3:30
Rush 2112 intro
♪♫♥ ;)
Is it just me or does the intro sound similar to "Woman from Tokyo" by Deep Purple?
Similar. Not identical, but similar
it remind me of Tax Man, Mr Thief by Cheap Trick (at least the opening riff). Then agian, the singer also sounds a lot like Robin Zander.
wow this song is good !!!!!
one off the best rip brian
hang out with the current group in the San Fernando valley sometimes.a Sweet/treat!
At the beginning of the song sing along with the guitar riff, sing My Woman from Tokyo. Sounds kind of the same. Sweet Rocks!!
Yes, similar riff, but I like this song so much more than the DP one, good as it is though.
What a band! Top shelf writing, singing and playing - all with that hard rock, kick-ass vibe. Guitar man Andy Scott really shines here - he has inspired many guitar players including me. This tune has so many different moods to it - genius songwriting.
certainly a big influence they had on other bands.. somehow or other , we can say that the "Sweet " created the "glam-metal" genre.. it's my humble opinion.
kind regards from Paris!
Straither than Purple.
Anyone out there who knew, Sweet wanted to rename this album (Off The Record) Windy City, influenced by Chicago and they many tours in USA......
Ok, if somebody thinks Windy City sounds like Deep Purple´s Woman from Tokyo, that´s fine, but I think Sweet sounds Sweet, more or less....besides all those bands are similar and who cares if the music is good enough, that only matters, nothing else. Enjoy the SWEET!
It would be great if you could up load some footage of ANGEL from the 70s.
Finally, finally, I found this song. So hard to find this one!!!
Fantastic. the Sweet at their best.
one of the song s of The Sweet
will belong to the sounstrack of The "Suicid Squad" it's Ballroom Blitz
I agree too. hugely under rated in France..
ONE BADASS SONG FROM A SUPER BADASS BAND! SWEET are one of the most underated super talented Bands to come from the 1970's a tremendous influence on so many Bands and really created the sound that would become New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the 80's. TERRIFIC BAND! Thank You for uploading this! - Andy.
I could not agree more LordRaven ... so underrated .. It is no secret that QUEEN got inspiration from SWEET re vocal arrangements
Hello hardcore SWEET fan LIVIN in place called WINDY CITY. CLASSIC!!!
Sweet, not The Sweet. Great track though.
If you're splitting hairs and talking about from around 1972 or 1973 onward, it's Sweet. Before that, it was The Sweet. If you want to go back even further, it used to be The Sweetshop.
@Revenge Rabbit + i'm not parting fringes but now it's sweet (scott) & the sweet(priest) & priest owns the rights to the oiginal sweet name design (desolation boulevard/waters edge) so actually we're all right, funny funny isn't it.
Bonne musique, bon groupe (THE SWEET) formidable......
my woman from tokyo
+TheVidkid67 got to agree !!!
Gewisse Ähnlichkeiten sind, hin und wieder, erkennbar.
Agree, but I like this one a lot better.
Blackmore actually played a gig with them in Santa Monica in the seventies :)
@Mick Nordström while touring with Rainbow, Blackmore played All right now on March 27th 1976 some days after the death of Paul kossoff
SICK AS FUCK!
+Steven Reents you got that right!!!
The Sweet are STILL the business!
Great riff great lyrics I got the record when I was 9 and only listened to it when I was 40. Sweet is an underestimasted group to say the least. Love the rock in the song as much as when I was 9. Time flies.
+hakanb i 've listened to them from teen years lol!!
still....I like it..
YES I totally! agree!!
Saw them in -74 10y old ;) So fukken great and still its what i listen too..quality!
hint hint rappers/nasal muppets
even if it sounds like woman from tokyo purples blacknight was taken from 1962 song sumertime from.ricky nelson and in 1966 the blues magoos had it in a song we aint got nothin yet so whos ripping.who of everybody begs steals and borrows
WELL SAID!!
Progresiv Pop Metal Rock geht nimmer besser ganz Groß !!
Woman From Tokyo is from 1973,Windy City is from 1977 both are excellent songs!!!!
Who cares if the riff sounds a bit like Woman From Tokyo this is one of Sweet's best songs. I call this my Sweet swan song by that i mean this is where my collection of Sweet songs end 1977.
great song bit of purple in there they should have toured the uk to promote this they didnt from the mid 70s seem to promote the singles or lps punk was here but who knows if they toured they might have turned it round still great memories of one of the
all time great rock bands
this song reminds me to kiss. awsome song
Numeri 1 da sempre
Nice Ritchie Blackmore inspired solo too!
fängt an wien lied von deep purple -woman from tokyo - ne?!
Perfection
I didnt the song as it self what Im talking about is the guitarrhytm in the beginlng and the guitar chords. They reminds/ make me think about My Woman From Tokyo. The Sweet change totally after they stop working witb Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman (songwriters) and Phil Wainman (record producer) and with no succes
Taken copying from my woman in tokyo by deep purple!
Some one needs to listen again.........GREAT ALBUM... ONE OF THEIR BEST !!!!!!!!
windy city classic sweet at there best shows they are as good as the rest of them out there great album .as well she give me lovin hard times lura lee pur class
its the old saying every body begs steals and borrows briliant song .so what if it sounds like woman from tokyo. deep purples black night is taken from an old blue magoos number years before they ever recorded it an old crooner from the early 60s did it first
...yes the riff is similar to Deep Purple, but thats about it.
truth is Brian and Mick were originally in a band called Wainright's Gentlemen', which broke up and Purple and Sweet were formed...so naturally there are similarities.
@AIKevorkian thats cuz deep purple stole from them -.-
Does anyone notice that this kinda sounds like "My woman from Tokyo" by Deep Purple? It's even in the same key, E minor.
"Woman from Tokyo" is in E, not E minor
All time fav. just seeing the album cover i can time warp 30 years in a second. Thanks so much for posting this, now for some reason i need to find a copy of the movie "over the edge" .
@aironatape che italiano perfetto!
Wheres my mini bike ! MY TEENS
U know where the Crue and Leppard got their sound
Exactly!
Musical elitism is a bore....as many bands are described...they are not the best of what they do...they`re the only ones who do what they do.Yes,I like difficult music and appreciate the complexity of like Yes/Gates of Delerium........but I also like 'Wooly Booly"Elvis tunes and others.Not exactly Berkley school of music grads choice for a challenge...but so what?Do your ears like it or not?
great guitar work.
[email protected] Il Dolce (for Sweet) Perfect!! Les Douces, die Süssen,,, how funny!!
Il Dolce erano una banda molto versatile, una banda quell'ha mostrato che non hanno voluto giocare lo stesso tipo di musica ma il progresso. Tale vergogna che ha dovuta finire.
Każdy członek Słodkiego miał ich część gra (sztuka) i to był trudne kontynuować kiedy Mózg opuścił (pozostawiony; odjechał; lewy), ale one zrobił dają temu rzeczywiście dobry udają się!!.
Grande pezzo, in questo disco hanno dimostrato di essere anche loro una band che sa suonare veramente! Come le grandi bands mondiali!
Es ist eine Scham, dass Gruppen, die Weg vor ihrer Zeit sind, nicht scheinen den recognision zu bekommen, den sie verdienen.
Great album..more rocking than their earlier stuff...i had it on cd but it got stolen.
Sweet is forever for me
We want Sweet, we want Sweet, we want Sweet!!! Great Song and awesome Album from Sweet!
R.i.P. Brian & Mick 4ever.
THX for upload.
Ritchie Blackmore sometimes made quest appearances with The Sweet when they played live and I think, not too sure though, he was friends with Andy Scott.
Windy city, Rough and dirty. It was the lyrics that made my parents hate them plus never understanding why i liked them. At 3:04 Andies guitar sounds a bit like Blackmore.
THAT`S HORNY MUSIC !!! SWEET-4-ever !!!
I LOVE IT FOR THE REST OF MY LIVE !!!
Ich hoffe, dass Sie noch ihre Musik genießen und Sie jetzt eine CD-Sammlung ihrer Alben aufgebaut haben.
Without any doubt!!
I was going to put " Discophony " on but I'm not too sure because of some the lyrics. I may if it's requested enough.
incredible dude!-Do you have"Can't stand that disco music" a rarity!
Ich bin froh Sie haben gemocht es.
Thanks Jen. I see my musical education is paying off!!
hey i like this one :D
I'll try my best.
Many years ago I could play the opening few bars.
keep em cumin