(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 ~ The Rolling Stones - Cover w/ Hofner Shorty Deluxe & BT
(c)1946 Written by Bobby Troup
Track 2 on The Rolling Stones´ album "England´s Newest Hit Makers The Rolling Stones" (1964)
Guitar Arr. stagwolf [Played in the key of A, BT=Backing track
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Well if you ever plan to motor west
Just take my way that's the highway that's the best,
Get your kicks on Route 66.
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way,
Get your kicks on Route 66.
#Go through St. Louis, Joplin, Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty,
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino..
Won´t you get hip to this kindly tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66.. [1.Solo # 2.+
Won´t you get hip to this kindly tip
When you make that California trip
+Get your kicks on Route 66,
Get your kicks on Route 66.
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Bobby Troup got the idea for the song on a cross-country drive from Pennsylvania to California. Troup wanted to try his hand as a Hollywood songwriter, so he and his wife, Cynthia, packed up their 1941 Buick and headed west. The trip began on US 40 and continued along US 66 to the California coast. Troup initially considered writing a tune about US 40, but Cynthia suggested the title "Get Your Kicks on Route 66". The song was composed on the ten-day journey and completed by referring to maps when the couple arrived in Los Angeles.
The lyrics read as a mini-travelogue about the major stops along the route, listing several cities and towns through which Route 66 passes: St. Louis; Joplin, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Amarillo, Texas; Gallup, New Mexico; Flagstaff, Arizona; Winona, Arizona; Kingman, Arizona; Barstow, California; and San Bernardino, California. Winona is the only town out of sequence: it was a very small settlement east of Flagstaff and might indeed have been forgotten if not for the lyric "Don't forget Winona", written to rhyme with "Flagstaff, Arizona". Many artists who have covered the tune over the years have changed the initial lyrics, usually to "It goes to St. Louis, down through Missouri..." then continuing with Oklahoma City and so on. Of the eight states through which the actual route passes, only Kansas and its cities—US 66 spends just eleven miles (18 km) inside the state's southeast corner—are not mentioned by the song. Chuck Berry famously mispronounces Barstow to rhyme with "cow" instead of correctly pronouncing it to rhyme with "go".
"Route 66" was first recorded in 1946 by Nat King Cole, whose rendition became a hit on both the U.S. R&B and pop record charts. Cole later re-recorded the tune in 1956 (for the album After Midnight) and 1961 (The Nat King Cole Story). [wiki