Goin' Places (song)

Goin' Places is one of The Jacksons songs that's in the album, Goin' Places. This song was written and produced by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and had a promotional film clip that was filmed by The Jacksons.^[1]

Lyrics

• I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m ridin’ in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m ridin’ in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I want to go
• To a different land
• Try my best
• To understand
• The different traditions
• And customs
• That people have, yeah
• The world is bigger
• Than this ole town
• I wanna get my feet up
• Off the ground
• I’ve saved up my money
• I’m leavin’ here today
• ’Cause I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I wanna get
• A first class seat
• Climbing so high up to forthy thousand feet
• It don’t take long
• To get where I wanna go, yeah
• I’m gonna have myself a ball
• This ole world I wanna see it all
• I got my clothes packed
• I’m leavin’ right away
• ’Cause I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’, goin’, goin’, goin’
• The world is bigger
• Than this ole town
• I wanna get my feet up
• Off the ground
• I’ve saved up my money
• I’m leavin’ right away
• ’Cause I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’ places
• I like the feelin’ I get
• When I’m riding in a jet
• Say I’m goin’, goin’, goin’, goin’
• Goin’, goin’, goin’, goin’
• Ad libs
• (New York, look out here we come)
• Here we, here we come, yeah
• (Detroit, look out here we come)
• Detroit, here we come
• (D.C., look out here we come)
• D.C., look out here we come
• (L.A., look out here we come)
• L.A., look out here we come
• (Houston, look out here we come)
• Houston, look out here we come
• (Chicago, Philadelphia)
• Gary, Indiana
• (I say we’re going accross the water)
• Going accross the water
• (Going accross the water)
• Going, goin’, goin’ places
• (Japan, look out here come)
• Come on, yeah
• (England, look out here we come)
• England
• (Scotland, look out here we come)
• Look out, look out here we come
• (I say Philipines)
• Yes, indeed
• (Russia, China, goin’ to Africa)
• Going accross the water
• Going accross the water, yeah
• First class sit
• I’m gonna see it all
• Get it on

Charts

It charted at no.8 on the R&B singles chart and no.52 on the Hot 100 in the US, and no.26 in the UK.

In Goin' Places

This song is the 2nd song in this album.^[2]

References