Chuck Berry - Thirty days

This was Berry's second single, after "Maybellene." Officially titled "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)," it is usually alluded to as simply "Thirty Days." According to Berry's piano player and collaborator Johnnie Johnson in Bruce Pegg's unauthorized biography Brown Eyed Handsome Man..., like the B-Side "Together (We Will Always Be)," this track was written by Berry while they were on the road, and recorded in haste at Chicago.

"I don't think that it took more than an hour for each one," he said.

I'm gonna to give you thirty days to get back home
I done called up a Gypsy woman on the telephone
Gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
That'll be the very thing that'll suit ya
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days

[Chorus]
Oh thirty days (Thirty days!)
Oh thirty days (Thirty days!)
Baby I'ma see that you be back home in thirty days
Well, she going to send out a world wide hoodoo
That'll be the very thing that'll suit ya
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days

[Verse 2]
And I talked to the judge in private early this morning
And he took me to the sheriff's office to sign a warrant
Going to put a cross charge again' ya
That'll be the very thing that'll send ya
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days

[Chorus]
Oh, thirty days (Thirty days)
Oh, thirty days (Thirty days)
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days
Yeah, I'm going to put a false charge again' ya
That'll be the very thing that'll send ya
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days
[Verse 3]
If I don't get no satisfaction from the judge
I'm going to take it to the FBI and voice my grudge
If they don't give me no consolation
I'm going to take it to the United Nations
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days

[Chorus]
Oh thirty days! (Thirty days)
Oh thirty days! (Thirty days)
Babe I'ma to see that you
Be back home in thirty days (Thirty days)
You don't give me no consolation
I'm going to take it to the United Nations
I'm going to see that you be back home in thirty days