Five Long Years

BUDDY GUY

SONGWRITER: EDDIE BOYD

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: Damn Right, I've Got The Blues

LABEL: SILVERTON RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1991

"Five Long Years" is a song written and recorded by blues vocalist/pianist Eddie Boyd in 1952. Called one of the "few postwar blues standards [that has] retained universal appeal", Boyd's "Five Long Years" reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart. Numerous blues and other artists have recorded interpretations of the song.

Buddy Guy (nascido George Guy, em 30 de julho de 1936 em Lettsworth, Louisiana) é um guitarrista e cantor norte-americano de blues e rock. Conhecido por servir de inspiração para Jimi Hendrix e outras lendas dos anos 60, Guy é considerado um importante expoente do chamado Chicago blues, tornado famoso por Muddy Waters e Howlin' Wolf. Foi considerado o 23º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

Lord, have you ever been mistreated

Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Yes, have you ever been mistreated

Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Lord I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerve to kick me out

I got a job at a steel mill,

I'm shucking steel just like a slave

Five long years, every Friday y'all I went straight home yeah,

I went straight home

Mistreated

Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Lord I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerve to kick me out

Lord but I finally learned a lesson,

I should have known long time ago

The next woman I marry, she gotta have two jobs,

And she gotta go out and work long and bring some dough

Lord, said I been mistreated

And you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Lord I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerve to kick me out

Have you ever been mistreated

Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Yes, have you ever been mistreated

Then you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Lord I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerve to kick me out

I got a job at a steel mill,

I'm shucking steel just like a slave

Five long years, every Friday yes yo'all I went straight home,

I went straight home with all my pay

Yes, I've been mistreated

And you got to, you got to know just what I'm talking about

Lord I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerve to kick me out

Lord I finally learned a lesson,

I should have known a long time ago

The next woman I marry, she gotta have two jobs,

And she gotta go out and work and bringing home some dough

I've been mistreated, yeah

And you, you know just what I'm talking about

I work five long years for one woman,

And she had the nerves to kick me out.

STORMY MONDAY

ERIC CLAPTON

SONGWRITER: T-Bone Walker

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: SLOWHAND

LABEL: POLYDOR

GENRE: BLUES ROCK

YEAR: 1977

Slowhand é um álbum de estúdio do guitarrista Eric Clapton, lançado em 1977. "Cocaine", "Wonderful Tonight" e "Lay Down Sally" foram lançadas como singles, e estão entre as músicas mais famosas de sua carreira. Slowhand é um apelido de Clapton, recebido nos Anos 60 quando o músico tocava nos The Yardbirds.

"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar Pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work. As well as becoming a record chart hit in 1948, it inspired B.B. King and others to take up the electric guitar. "Stormy Monday" became Walker's best-known and most-recorded song.

In 1961, Bobby "Blue" Bland further popularized the song with an appearance in the pop record charts. Bland introduced a new arrangement with chord substitutions, which was later used in many subsequent renditions. His version also incorrectly used the title "Stormy Monday Blues", which was copied and resulted in royalties being paid to songwriters other than Walker. The Allman Brothers Band recorded an extended version for their first live album in 1971, with additional changes to the arrangement. Through the album's popularity and the group's concert performances, they brought "Stormy Monday" to the attention of rock audiences. Similarly, R&B Singer Latimore's 1973 hit recording made it popular with a later R&B audience.

They call it stormy Monday, yes but Tuesday's just as bad.

They call it stormy Monday, yes but Tuesday's just as bad.

Wednesday's even worse; Thursday's awful sad.

The eagle flies on Friday, Saturday I go out to play.

The eagle flies on Friday, but Saturday I go out to play.

Sunday I go to church where I kneel down and pray.

And I say, "Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.

Just trying to find my baby, won't you please send her on back to me."

The eagle flies on Friday, on Saturday I go out to play.

The eagle flies on Friday, on Saturday I go out to play.

Sunday I go to church, where I kneel down, Lord and I pray.

Then I say, "Lord have mercy, won't you please have mercy on me.

Lord, oh Lord have mercy, yeah, won't you please, please have mercy on me.

I'm just a-lookin' for my sweet babe, so won't you please send him home, send him on home to me."·

Champagne & Reefer

Muddy Waters

SONGWRITER: Muddy Waters

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: KING BEE

LABEL: BLUE SKY

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1981

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 — April 30, 1983), known by his stage name Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941.

In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time, professional musician. In 1946, Muddy Waters eventually recorded his first record for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.

In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band—Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums and Otis Spann on piano—recorded several blues classics, some with bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. These songs included "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to England, laying the foundations of the subsequent blues boom there. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960.

King Bee is the fourteenth and final studio album by blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. Released in 1981, it is third in a series of records done for the label Blue Sky Records under producer/guitarist Johnny Winter. Recorded in three days (and in the wake of Muddy's failing health) some of the band members, namely Winter and guitarist Bob Margolin, were not happy with the result. As his health deteriorated, Muddy was forced to cancel an increasing number of shows. He died of a heart attack on April 30, 1983.

The album was recorded in May 1980. A salary dispute between the band and Muddy Waters's manager, Scott Cameron, halted the session. Eventually the album was completed by using a couple of outtakes from 1977's Hard Again.

Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty.

Bring me reefer when I want to get high.

Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty.

Bring me reefer when I want to get high.

Well you know when I'm lonely

Bring my woman set her right down here by my side.

Well you know there should be no law

On people that want to smoke a little dope.

Well you know there should be no law

On people that want to smoke a little dope.

Well you know it's good for your head

And it relax your body don't you know.

Everytime I get high

I lay my head down on my baby's breast.

Well you know I lay down be quiet

Tryin' to take my rest.

Well you know she done hug and kiss me

Says Muddy your one man that I love the best.

I'm gonna get high

Gonna get high just as sure as you know my name.

Y'know I'm gonna get so high this morning

It's going to be a cryin' shame.

Well you know I'm gonna stick with my reefer

Ain't gonna be messin' round with no cocaine.

IF YOU SHOULD LOVE ME

TEN YEARS AFTER

SONGWRITER: ALVIN LEE

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: SSSSH

LABEL: DERAM

GENRE: BLUES-ROCK

YEAR: 1969

Ssssh is the third studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1969. The album charted #20 on the Billboard 200 and #4 on the UK charts.

Ten Years After are an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man". Their musical style consisted of blues rock, and hard rock.

If you should love me

Then I cannot be to blame

For loving you the way I do

If you should want me

Then you cannot really say

You cannot say it to me, baby

Mmmm... won't you love me true

'Cause you got your way and, baby, I got mine

Darling, I love you

The only way I know

You know I know that It's gonna be good loving

For ever and a day

The way you want my love

You know you're gonna be my baby

And I'm feeling all

I'm feeling all right

Baby, love the way you walk

I love it when you're talking to me, darling

Yeah, won't you call my name

Now now now now

I wanna show you how to love

And loving should be good

'Cause darling, we got it made

Made by you and me

Now now now now

I wanna be your loving man

Wanna love you all I can

I wanna show you, baby, baby, baby...

How to love you right

Baby, make you feel so good tonight

Baby, make you feel, feel so right

I know I really would if I could

If you should love me

Love me every day

Love me all the way

Baby, I love you

Love you all the time

I love you it's only right

If I love you every night

Then, I'll buy a diamond ring

Buy a diamond ring for your finger

Yeah, yeah, now, now, now

Everybody's telling me

That I must be mad to think it's very bad

'Cause I love you and I know that you love me

Yeah, yeah, yeah, now

Yeah, love is really good to me

Loving really sets me free

Baby, I'm feeling, I'm feeling

I'm feeling all night

Now yeah, loving is really good and fine

Loving really frees your mind

Darling, darling, I'm feeing all right

Yeah, yeah, now now......

Come on, come on, yeah, yeah..........