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Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go

No Particular Place To Go was written at a time when Chuck Berry had literally no place to go. He was in prison. Chuck first saw the inside of a slammer back in the 1940s due to a youthful folly, but it is fair to say that since then his encounters with the law have been more low key and if anything somewhat contrived.

Although this song didn't enrage Mrs. Whitehouse like his later, number one hit, in which he offered to show us his ding-a-ling, it is fairly laden with innuendo, although of the tragic kind, because herein, our hero is unable to unfasten his safety belt.

"No Particular Place To Go" was released in May 1964 backed by the instrumental "Liverpool Drive", and is instantly recognizable as a Berry composition with his distinctive, clean cut guitar style.

The lyrics:

Riding along in my automobile

My baby beside me at the wheel

I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile

My curiosity runnin' wild

Crusin' and playin' the radio

With no particular place to go

Riding along in my automobile

I was anxious to tell her the way I feel

So I told her softly and sincere

And she leaned and whispered in my ear

Cuddlin' more and drivin' slow

With no particular place to go

No particular place to go

So we parked way out on the Kokomo

The night was young and the moon was gold

So we both decided to take a stroll

Can you image the way I felt

I couldn't unfasten her safety belt

Ridin' along in my calaboose

Still trying to get her belt a-loose

All the way home I held a grudge

For the safety belt that wouldn't budge

Crusin' and playin' the radio

With no particular place to go