Going Up the Country

Canned Heat

About Going Up the Country

"Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung in a countertenor-style by Alan Wilson.


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2007
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    A Why pamper life's complexity, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
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    C In the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more
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