Biography:
Tony Joe White (Oak Grove, Louisiana, July 23, 1943 - October 24, 2018) was an American swamp rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who is a friend of White.
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Other songs:
- Aint Going Down This Time
- Always The Song
- As The Crow Flies
- Backside Of Paradise
- Backwoods Preacher Man
- Bayou Woman
- Billy
- Closer To The Truth
- Clovis Green
- Delta Love
- Down By The Border
- Georgia Pines
- Goin Down Rockin
- High Horse
- High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parrish
- I Believe Ive Lost My Way
- I Get Off On It
- I Just Walked Away
- Ice Cream Man
- Lake Placid Blues
- Louisiana Rain
- Polk Salad Annie
- Rainy Night In Georgia
- Red Neck Women
- Robbin My Honeycomb
- Roosevelt And Ira Lee
- Save Your Sugar For Me
- Scratch My Back
- Soul Francisco
- Steamy Windows
- Susie Q
- The Guitar Dont Lie
- Tunica Motel
- Undercover Agent For The Blues
- Who You Ganna Hoodoo Now
- Willie And Laura Mae Jones
- Yo Yo Man
- Youre Gonna Look Good In Blues
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Delta Love:Tony Joe White.
WARNER Records in 1971.
INTRO: Gbm A Gb
#1.
Gbm F Am
Oh, they came cross the delta, got together
D
one time again.
Db E
And camped out on the land about one hundred
B
miles from New Orleans.
Gbm F A
In the glow of a campfire I saw a man, his
D
children and his wife.
Bm E
Like the others they had come to get away from
B
the hectic life.
CHORUS:
Gbm E Gbm Ebm
Delta love will you be the last?
Gbm B
Has this become a thing of the past?
Gbm Gb Gbm
I know that you can feel it too..you're having
A D
a hard time coming through, mmm-mmm, delta
Gbm E
love.
#2.
Gbm F
I heard the music ringing through the dark woods.
A
I saw the candles glowing in the night.
Bm D Em
And Chapelai River, ooo, I heard you took another
B E Abm7 Gbm
life.
CHORUS:
Gbm E Gbm Ebm
Delta love will you be the last?
Gbm B
Has this become a thing of the past?
Gbm B Gb Gbm
I know that you can feel it too.....you're having
A D
a hard time coming through, yes, yeah..
INTERLUDE: Gbm A Gbm Bm Gbm A Gbm A Gbm Dbm Gbm
B Gbm
#3.
A Gbm F
There were some there who took the bad road and
A D
they looked to be so tired and worn.
Bm G E
There were some who died there but, then again,
Bm A B
another one was born.
OUTRO:
Gbm B
Delta love can you be found?.......
Gb Gbm B
Tell me what is going down.........
Gb B
Has this become a thing of the past?......
Gbm
Delta love will you be the last?
D Gbm A Gbm A
Yeah, yeah......oh, delta love, delta love, ooo,
Gbm A Gbm A Gbm B A
delta love, delta love.........(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
WARNER Records in 1971.
INTRO: Gbm A Gb
#1.
Gbm F Am
Oh, they came cross the delta, got together
D
one time again.
Db E
And camped out on the land about one hundred
B
miles from New Orleans.
Gbm F A
In the glow of a campfire I saw a man, his
D
children and his wife.
Bm E
Like the others they had come to get away from
B
the hectic life.
CHORUS:
Gbm E Gbm Ebm
Delta love will you be the last?
Gbm B
Has this become a thing of the past?
Gbm Gb Gbm
I know that you can feel it too..you're having
A D
a hard time coming through, mmm-mmm, delta
Gbm E
love.
#2.
Gbm F
I heard the music ringing through the dark woods.
A
I saw the candles glowing in the night.
Bm D Em
And Chapelai River, ooo, I heard you took another
B E Abm7 Gbm
life.
CHORUS:
Gbm E Gbm Ebm
Delta love will you be the last?
Gbm B
Has this become a thing of the past?
Gbm B Gb Gbm
I know that you can feel it too.....you're having
A D
a hard time coming through, yes, yeah..
INTERLUDE: Gbm A Gbm Bm Gbm A Gbm A Gbm Dbm Gbm
B Gbm
#3.
A Gbm F
There were some there who took the bad road and
A D
they looked to be so tired and worn.
Bm G E
There were some who died there but, then again,
Bm A B
another one was born.
OUTRO:
Gbm B
Delta love can you be found?.......
Gb Gbm B
Tell me what is going down.........
Gb B
Has this become a thing of the past?......
Gbm
Delta love will you be the last?
D Gbm A Gbm A
Yeah, yeah......oh, delta love, delta love, ooo,
Gbm A Gbm A Gbm B A
delta love, delta love.........(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
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