New York Is Killing Me

Yeah, the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me

Bunch of doctors coming 'round, they don't know that New York is killing me

Yeah, well, I need to go home and take it slow down in Jackson, Tennessee

Let me tell you, city ain't living all it is cracked up to be

Fast city living ain't all it's cracked up to be

Yes, seem I need to go home and slow down in Jackson, Tennessee

Yes, I lay down, I lay down, the doctor, "Try to take it all in"

Yeah, lay down, lay down to try to take it all in (Take it all in)

Yeah, they got eight million people and I didn't have a single friend

Don't you know, don't you know, New York was killing me

Yes, I was standing nearly dying here, New York was killing me

Seems like I need to start over and move back home in Jackson, Tennessee

Lord, have mercy, mercy on me

Yeah, Lord, have mercy, have mercy on me

Tell Him to bury my body back home in Jackson, Tennessee

Yeah, Lord, have mercy, have mercy on me

Yeah, I need to be back home, need to be back home

Need to be back home, need to be back home, yeah

Born in Chicago, but I go home Tennessee

Yeah, born in Chicago, but I