Jim Croce - Walkin' back to Georgia
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- Jim Croce - Walkin' back to Georgia
I'm walkin' back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back
Nothin' in my pockets
And all I own is upon my back
Chorus:
But she's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road
And if she's still around
I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl
I'm walkin' back to Georgia
She's the only one who knows
How it feels when you lose a dream
And how it feels when you dream alone
Chorus
Georgia can you hear me callin'
Oh I'll be home in just a while
And if I had to I'd be crawlin'
Just to share another mornin' smile
But you're the girl who said you loved me
On that hot dusty long ago
And if you're still around
I'm gonna settle down
With you my hard lovin' Georgia girl...because
I'm walkin' back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back
Nothin' in my pockets
And all I own is upon my back
Chorus
Jim’s music makes me wanna take a road trip across America with the windows down.
@Jeff Eiskina You'll get there. Just hang in there.
1983...
I'm on highway 50. regularly travel 3,000 miles a time. jim and maury are def on my playlist. cheers to you getting out on the road!
Amen brother!
maybe once it's warmer than -35
great song
8 track tape player and Croce in '76 ??? It was yesterday folks . Pretty blonde girl stole my heart broke into a thousand pieces ..lol ..seems to be a recurring theme . I sure miss Jim more than those girls .
I miss you Jim.
One of the best intros ever.
yeah jim is the best he makes you feel his music
LOVE !
Genio .. !
proud to be from Macon
Good song, just discovered it
Esse é da antiga , adoro
sweet sound majestic music..
And he wrote all these songs over just a few years.
keeper
Why is this song making me so sad? Does anyone know if this song was about his wife, Ingrid?
mmm mmm mmmm
Really amazing how you can hear the sincerity in his voice with each lyric, but for me, particularly with "but you're the girl who said you loved me..." I think all men know how much we hold onto those words from girls like this, no matter how long it may have been.
This
Couldnt agree more . All of us guys think about the one that got away. Especially when her name was georgette !!
have to listen to this song over and over again, absolutely one of the best singer songwriters of the past century
Sure was!
I feel like Jim doesn't get his due - such is the music business, legend lives on.
Villa Zamorano no doubt.
Ridiculously talented, music's best kept secret. I'd love to see a mainstream revival of his music someday. He should be ranked near the top of his profession.
This was my personal favorite hands down. Such a loss. He wrote all his songs in a period of 18 months. How much more was there?
This has haunted me for over 40 years- love it. RIP Jim- you are well loved!
Absolutely beautiful simply beautiful I have a very deep feeling from this song from a place in life so long ago
This song has haunted me for almost 50 years. I live in Georgia and my ex and I hung out on a road called Macon Road. We said “I love you” many times as we rode up and down our Macon Road. Since we split (we were so young), we have often talked about what might have been. Beautiful memories!
Croce's music represents a much simpler time when small things meant a lot.
And I’m so glad I’ve lived in that era of music.. ❤
@@pamkammann1176 Me, too. My own music has been influenced by it: th-cam.com/video/OHnK_8bSz_8/w-d-xo.html. Take a listen and leave me a comment if you have a chance. Thanks and take care.
This might be my favorite song of all time and I'm a metalhead, it's just a damn near perfect song
Absolutely agree
Is this not blatantly one of the greatest songs ever written? I don’t see it getting recognition anywhere, it’s breathtakingly beautiful. Those guitar harmonies 😍
Wouldn't it have been nice for Jim not to die so tragically - his music affected so many and I am one of them
Dude sings with his heart.
The best singer ever....love jim and so maury!
Taken away too damn soon
Love the line “And if she’s still around I’m gonna settle down’. That tells the listener that he doesn’t even know if she’s there anymore. And when you add in his misfortune of having all he owns on his back, and walking in the hot Georgia heat just to take a chance at her love, is a true testament to the genius songwriter that Jim was.
Jim Croce's songs make you realize how precious life is and the relationships that you form. You only come this way once but leave footprints forever.
@horseman528 Wow!!! So profound!!
I have loved Jim's music since I was a kid and I am a Senior citizen now and still love his music just as much.
Great singer and tragic death; Jim is a very overlooked artist. Most think of him as the guy who sang "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", which is a great song, but cannot hold a candle to his others. Genius songwriter!
tdk1004 And the greatest acoustic guitarist with him!!!
Spot on man
New York;s not my home.... struck me deeply,, moved away from my hometown my Sr. year in HS,,,, simple change in "NY" allowed me to consider the song my own,,, ;
Here in the philipines all songs of jim croce are my favorate. 😍😍😍 my dad was introduce me in this song ... So later on i was so impress and i like too much. 😘😍😍😍😍 beautiful songs of jim croce folk song singer. 😊
I didn't know about Jim until my counselor recommended me to listen to Time in a Bottle. I agree with all of you, his music is very soothing and deep
This song is just outstanding in every way! The girl it reminds of was probably who I should have spent my life with. Our lives (like a lot of other peoples) changed when I left our small town in Arizona for the service. She tops my list of things regrettably lost to time, and after 40 yrs. I could still grieve if I let myself do so. But that would only harm me and maybe her as well. We will be together after this world is through with us, I hope.
Never forget the morning I turned on the radio and heard about Jim's death. So many great songs in such a short life. Wonder what might have been, how many amazing songs were still to come.
Saddest words ever written, "What might have been."
You can just listen to his music and feel everything he is singing about. It's so relatable. I truly believe he put his heart and soul into songs such as this. He has been the only thing I've listened to for the past month. I love him. How someone can't love him is beyond me. Such a tragic end. It's heartbreaking 💔💔
Great singer.
Absolutely! One of the most heartfelt singer songwriters I ever heard. I knew all of his songs by heart by the time I was in junior high.
The best there ever was and the best there will ever be.
Every song he did has struck a nerve in me somewhere.
Jim can say more by humming than most can say with an entire album.
Mmm, mmm
Walkin' back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back.
Nothin' in my pockets,
And all I own is on my back.
But she's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road,
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl,
Mmm
I'm walkin' back to Georgia;
She's the only one who knows
How it feels when you lose a dream
And how it feels when you dream alone.
She's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm
Georgia can you hear me callin';
I'll be home in just a while.
And if I had to I'd be crawlin'
Just to share another mornin' smile.
You're the girl who said you loved me
On that hot dusty long ago,
And if you're still around, I'm gonna settle down
With you, my hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm
Because I'm walkin' back to Georgia,
And I hope she will take me back.
Nothin' in my pockets
And all I own is on my back.
She's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot, dusty Macon road
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm, mmm
I actually heard this song accidently in my spotify playlist and falling in love since then. Still playing this song everytime I feel I need some good song for my soul. God i love this song so much! Its too beautiful to describe! All my respect for Jim. Best of best!
Box #10 and "tomorrow's gonna be a brighter day" are two more really good ones
Me too came across this on Spotify
Been listening to this stuff for 40 years and Maury still amazes me.
40 years for me too; 45 now. dad played croce all the time on 8-track in the van back then.
Maury's playing was the real genius on these songs.
Every song is a story, Maury sets the mood.
Dad used to play all Jim's songs to me as a kid on his guitar all the time, and throughout my teen years till now at 42 I still love his music and still find it as relevant today as I did back then different ways now though 😊. He is absolutely one of the greats in my opinion. Something special was lost x
this was all jim maury did nothing except backing vocals
Nice! Jim and Maury were the greatest acoustic guitar duo ever.
When Maury joined Jim, it was Perfection...these songs will still be relevant 100 years from now, Maury ahares my hometown,,Trenton, NJ, I know his family, And Visit His Grave it's two rows from my stepfather....so tragic, I can only wonder what if. And how much more music there would have been...
I like how his songs aren't reaching for anything earth-shattering.
jungcarlgustav Time in a Bottle is I'd say
jungcarlgustav Exactly what makes them earth shattering for me. Simple straight forward about life.
That's what made him great. He wasn't a rockstar or anything of that sort; just a guy with a guitar and a story to tell
Harvey Birdman perfectly put mate.
jungcarlgustav you’re right they aren’t, but they can translate that way
this song just disappeared on spotify so i came here :,c
It's back on Spotify fyi
I Just Found it on Spotify
How in the hell can such a great artist have looked into my life and wrote a song about. Jim Croce, an true artist who will always be loved and remembered.
a true*
The more I listen to Jim, the more I fall in love with his music !! Wish we could have a few more albums before he left us !! :(
That's for sure!
Jimbo....You left us too Soon !!!!!
Aye! Jimbo was a brilliant shooting star
Jim died so young. His genius was growing with each new song. This song is but one of his masterpieces. Thank you, Jim. You are one of the greatest singer/songwriters/performers.
This song found me more than I found it 4 years ago. I've carried it with me through hard times and good. In a weird way it speaks to me. Thanks Jim hope you rest easy
this song directs me to come and see georgia by train, been listening to this song since ages ago, had a chance now, and maybe meet the hard loving georgia girl!!
Simple, Hart felt, straight ahead no Bullshit style! that was JIM CROCE!
don barlow Hart... so like a deer?
fuckn beautiful and evokes what it's supposed to the love you we're once lucky enough to wrap your arms around.
Just got my first car at age 41...first albums to feed my radio are Jim Croce - Best of and Beck Seachange :) and thats enough...Jim is the best folk songwriter
The Book His Wife Wrote Is Great. In It Don McLean Used To Come Over And Jim Helped Don In His Early Years. Jim Croce Was And Is A Blessing That Will Never Be Equaled.
Words lose their wisdom when used to describe Jim Croce. Such a talent in every way.
70's camping staying up all night around the camp fire listening and singing his songs. Best times. Still amazing songs today, wish i could have seen him in concert. RIP
How it feels when you lose a dream and how it feels when you dream alone...
Powerful! Still my fave all time singer/writer- it still hurts to think about his early departure and what was still to come....
Jim was and still is one of God's very special gifts to the world!
One of the best ever bar none. As a proud 3rd generation Italian American, Jim and his music are the stuff of legends in my house.
Election brought me here
It just turned blue so I played this song.
@@lucascurrey7891 So did I!!! I also just played Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind", and Brooke Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia". There's hope again, Folks! Doesn't it feel great? Hang in. :)
Why?
You guys are idiots relating this to politics
@@mastersamurai7683 you're an idiot for not understanding why we would. Politics is literally everything and we turn to music to help process how we feel about it.
Jim > Billy Joel !!
Heard this at 7 years old and The warm sweet Melody and Maury's gentle guitar picking have held onto me ever since..
Such a sad loss of one of the world's finest songwriters.
Great guy from my home state.
Yep...wish it was Britney bieber or Arianne grande all that thrash singers today!
@@jgmdewilde8078 you don't wish death on other people, no matter what
Wouldn't you rather choose to appreciate than to compare?
got to know jim croce through stranger things, but I have been hooked. LOVE this song. wanna see America some day
same here now I cant get enough
this may upset some people, but this man hands down was the best poet, singer, song writer, of the past century.. dylan doesnt even compare in my opinion..
Colby Wagaman well said . Jim's songs are from his heart.
Gone too soon
Thats a bold statement and I can respect it .I was just a kid ..in fact Croce had already passed before I discovered his music. Many years later I became aware of Dylan and all things changed. But I will give you this....Nothing has ever come close to Dylan ....even Neil Young agrees but I think Neil is on same level and I agree with you on Croce ...all three are the best of my time on the planet. God Bless.
gone but not forgotten. wonderful music in Heaven now with the other who have passed on lately...Prince, Bowie, Frey, et al
baler johnson
A lot of Jim's song's sure make you think obout the choices you made in your life ,never be another like him
Mmm, mmm
Walkin' back to Georgia
And I hope she will take me back.
Nothin' in my pockets,
And all I own is on my back.
But she's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road,
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl,
Mmm
I'm walkin' back to Georgia;
She's the only one who knows
How it feels when you lose a dream
And how it feels when you dream alone.
She's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot dusty Macon road
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm
Georgia can you hear me callin';
I'll be home in just a while.
And if I had to I'd be crawlin'
Just to share another mornin' smile.
You're the girl who said you loved me
On that hot dusty long ago,
And if you're still around, I'm gonna settle down
With you, my hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm
Because I'm walkin' back to Georgia,
And I hope she will take me back.
Nothin' in my pockets
And all I own is on my back.
She's the girl who said she loved me
On that hot, dusty Macon road
And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down
With that hard lovin' Georgia girl.
Mmm, mmm
Croce was not a poet! that is for dylan, and the hippie style of songwriting! "Croce" gave it to ya strait! with a no bullshit style,, about good times and many bad times also cool character songs of people he met in life..
Jim has the most authentic voice in all of music
you're the girl who said you love me, on the Hot DUSTY long ago.
Hot dusty Macon Road.
yeah, i know.
That hard loving Georgia girl.
He certainly was brilliant, but so many people don't know his music. When I was young I spent DAYS listening to him. His songs seem to always hit home. Although I never turned back on a decision to walk away. But that was long ago ...
Mr.Croce was an old family friend. I never got to meet the man who taught my grandmother English when she moved here from Ireland.
Thanks Jim your 16 month career influenced my life forever. The heavens needed a lead singer.
The man was incapable of writing a bad song, a travesty ,and commentary on what it has become, that he along with Nick Drake and Gram Parsons are not in the Hall of fame. Man was brilliant
I'm now 24 years old and I so loved this song when my uncle first introduced his music to me back when i was a kid. I wish i was born around the time when Jim was a hit, instead of hearing todays new crappy songs dominating the music industry, all nonsense lyrics and nudity..
I've introduced many people to Jim Croce over the years and they all agree he was one if the greatest singer, songwriters of our generation.
I've been playing his music for 40 yrs, and still don't have it all. Noticed he played with finger pics trying to master that now. What a man what a talent. Got misty reading the comments. It;s even hard playing his music. The crowed gets misty too. P.S. I love you Jim Croce.
I love this fantastic song and ain't the guitars just great
This song really hits you where you live...makes me either cry or want to cry whenever I hear it.
It's simply outstanding! A voice full of love!
So expressive and clear. What emotion packed in few words. Jim, you are unique....we miss you.
Omg I love this song so much. It goes right though me
I find it hard to think how prolific Jim was in such a short time on the planet. But what strikes me even more is that for a man who was with one woman nearly his entire life, he had such a firm hold on the emotions of lost love. Often when I listen to his music, I find myself washed in the loss I felt after marriages failed. Yes marriages...plural. Even though in those cases it didn't end with good relationships, I find myself with warm, wonderful feelings about the time we had.
Very very VERY few TH-cam videos I click before I hear. But ABSOLUTELY EVERY JIM CROCE.
Listening to Jim makes me emotional. The world lost a true artist.
I think I keep getting reincarnated, cuz my favorite music is this stuff.
Grew up in the 70's as a teenager and fell in love with his music, so sad that the great singer/songwriters are taken from there families and there fans way to soon. RIP Jim you are miss and still loved.
@DennisBrownDhighway i was a pre-teen in the early 70's.... But he left such a mark.....He perished when i was 10 years old...50 years ago
Croce's music is so melancholy ,so steeped in nostalgia and a longing for a lost time and place. It makes me ALMOST cry and I'm not a crier.
I love these guys! Like a shot of whiskey to my soul. God bless Croce!
' on that hot dusty long ago ' . It sums up the magic of jim croce right there . Eveyone knows time in a bottle and all the other hits. But when i play this for friends they are blown away, definately one of my favorite guitar players !!!!
Jim is buried at Haym Solomon Memorial Park in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Great song! For all of us who have lost loved ones. Life goes that fast and we will see them again that soon!
Hello type in "Ron Howard Palace" listen to Opie sing "Lady"! Also type "Ron Howard cover" listen to "The Dance"!
Almost every single one of his songs could've been a classic. Could've been a Bob Dylan level musical legend.
Kinda was. Left a great collection thank goodness.
Jim is a "Bob Dylan" music legend, and more.
IT IS NOT ALMOST.IT IANT COULD HAVE BEEN. HE IS AT THAT LEVEL, OR PROBABLY JUST BEYOND WHAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN PLACING AS A MEASSURE OF HIS GREATNESS. UNBELIEVABLE TALENT.
RJ Foster had his career been longer he would’ve passed Dylan for sure
I regret I never got to see this amazing singer songwriter perform and I also regret that his life was cut short depriving him of the success and career he would have had.
great album from 1972 too bad not until that plane went down Sep 1973 did America really discover this perfect album. ..I still play it 40 years later no filler tracks just perfection.....I got a name was great too
+Thomas Ponzio I always loved Box #10 & A Long Time Ago, but you're spot-on---there's no filler here. It's all solid, talent generated brilliance.
These songs are so honest and from the heart they just draw you into them. And months or even years later coming across one of them you naturally feel that long dormant admiration you once knew come back in vivid 2015 HD.
I'm going to listen to them all. I almost forgot how incredibly powerful Walking Back To Georgia can be.
I feel like I'm on that hot dusty Macon road....it's all so tangible I can smell peach blossoms weaved into the fumes of a Greyhound bus.
okay, bye!
Guys like Croce, Dylan, Lennon, etc... always seemed to be able to articulate life experiences, insights, lessons of older people while still in their 20s. Really amazing, a true gift.
Great lyrics great singer be two guitars damn near 50 years ago and people still can't figure out how to make music
Another classic from the best story teller in the world God bless you Mr Croce
I still miss this guy. Anytime someone can sit down on a barstool in front of 1000's of people and keep them entertained for hours....my hat is off to them. Now that's hard core.
Almost every single one of his songs could've been a classic. Could've been a Bob Dylan level musical legend.
About 8 yrs ago I was digging through boxes in my parents basement and found my Aunt's old record collection. I then purchased a record player & was rooting through her vinyls when I came across Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim". I will never forget that moment when I pressed play and sat down on my bed as I watched the arm move from the resting position and lower itself down until the needle met the vinyl, there was several seconds of crackling and then I first heard his voice. Magic
Brian M - the answer is that he had so many fantastic songs - it should've been but it would've been a quad album!!
Kevin on dads cell, Lightfoot and the rest above are all among the best (except Bieber ) and greatest of poets and songwriters, but none compares with Jim Croce as far as songs about real people they knew, and everyone new a bad bad Leroy Brown, or someone they'd "have to say I love you , in a song" to, he brought back laughter, love, hope , honesty honer and simple living to us at a time when many felt we had not just lost our first war, but all the above as well. His simple lyrics grounded us and made us realize how strong our foundation and support structure, as a country united , were. And at a time when everyone wondered " WHAT NEXT ?"
HE REMINDEF US WHat happens when you take advantage of those weaker, something the younger generation's now have no concept of.
This is one of those songs that is actually *that* good
One of my all time favorites.