TUPELO BLUES

JOHN LEE HOOKER

Songwriter: JOHN LEE HOOKER

Country: u.s.a.

Album: tupelo blues

Label: riverside records

Genre: blues

Year: 1969

John Lee Hooker (22 de agosto de 1917 — 21 de junho de 2001) foi um influente cantor e guitarrista de blues norte-americano, nascido no condado de Coahoma próximo a Clarksdale, Mississipi. Foi considerado o 35º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

A carreira de Hooker começou em 1948 quando ele alcançou sucesso com o compacto "Boogie Chillen", apresentando um estilo meio falado que tornaria-se sua marca registrada. Ritmicamente, sua música era bastante livre, uma característica que ele tinha em comum com os primeiros músicos de delta blues. Sua entonação vocal era menos associada à música de bar em relação aos outros cantores de blues. Seu estilo casual e falado errado seria diminuído com o advento do blues elétrico das bandas de Chicago mas, mesmo quando não estava tocando sozinho, Hooker mantinha as características primordiais de seu som.

Did ya read about the flood?

Happened long time ago

In Tupelo, Mississippi

There were thousands o' lives

Destroyed

It rained, it rained

Both night and day

The poor people was worried

Didn't have no place to go

Could hear may people, cryin' "Lord, have mercy"

'Cause You're the only one that we can turn to"

Happened a long time ago

A little town

Way back in Mississippi

In Tupelo

There was women, and there was children

They were screamin' an' cryin'

Cryin', "Lord, have mercy

You're the only one now, that we can turn to"

Way back down in Mississippi, a little country town

I know ya read about it

'Cause I'll never forget it

The mighty flood in Tupelo, Mississippi

Been years ago

Lord, have mercy

Wasn't that a mighty time?

Tupelo's gone

WHISKY IN THE JAR

ERIC BELL

SONGWRITERS: BRIAN DOWNEY & PHIL LINOTT

COUNTRY: IRISH

ALBUM: WHISKY IN THE JAR

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1996

"WHISKEY IN THE JAR" É UMA CÉLEBRE canção tradicional irlandesa. Sua letra, que se passa nas montanhas de Cork e Kerry, fala sobre um salteador que é traído por sua esposa (ou amante). Uma das canções folclóricas irlandesas mais conhecidas e executadas, vem sendo gravada por artistas profissionais desde a década de 1950, porém recebeu maior notoriedade depois de ter sido gravada pela banda folk irlandesa The Dubliners, que a executaram internacionalmente e a gravaram em três álbuns na década de 1960. Após o sucesso dos Dubliners, a banda de rock Thin Lizzy entrou para as paradas de sucesso da Irlanda e Reino Unido no início da década de 1970, e a banda de metal estadunidense Metallica a levou a um público ainda mais amplo depois de gravá-la em 1998.

Eric Robin Bell (nasceu em 3 de setembro de 1947 no East Belfast, Irlanda do Norte) é um guitarrista e músico irlândes, também conhecido como Eric Bell. Ele ficou melhor conhecido por ser o guitarrista original do grupo de rock Thin Lizzy. Depois de seu tempo na banda, ele teve um breve período como sendo vocalista de seu próprio grupo de rock.

Brian Michael Downey (27 de janeiro de 1951, em Dublin, Irlanda) é um baterista irlandês, melhor conhecido como baterista e fundador da banda de rock Thin Lizzy. Junto com Phil Lynott, Downey foi o único membro constante do grupo pioneiro de hard rock até sua dissolução em 1984. Downey também co-escreveu algumas canções para o Thin Lizzy. O crítico Eduardo Rivadavia da Allmusic argumentou que Downey é o "certamente um dos mais substimados bateristas de rock de sua geração"

Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott (IPA: [ˈlaɪnət]; West Bromwich, 20 de agosto de 1949 – Salisbury, 4 de janeiro de 1986) foi um músico irlandês, célebre por ser o vocalista, baixista e principal compositor da banda de rock Thin Lizzy.

As I was a-goin' over the Cork & Kerry Mountains

I met with Captain Farrell, and his money he was countin'.

First I drew my pistols and then I drew my rapier,

Sayin' "Stand and deliver, for I am your bold deceiver."

Musha ringum duram da,

Whack fol the daddy-o,

Whack fol the daddy-o,

There's whiskey in the jar.

He counted out his money and it made a pretty penny;

I put it in my pocket to take home to ' Jenny.

She sighed and swore she loved me and never would deceive me,

But the devil take the women, for they always lie so easy!

Musha ringum duram da

I went into me chamber all for to take a slumber,

To dream of gold and girls, and of course it was no wonder:

Me Jenny took me charges and she filled them up with water,

Called on Captain Farrell to get ready for the slaughter.

Musha ringum duram da

Next mornin' early, before I rose for travel,

Up came a band of footmen and likewise Captain Farrell.

I goes to draw my pistol, for she'd stole away my rapier,

But I couldn't shoot for water, so a prisoner I was taken

Musha ringum duram da

They put me into jail with a judge all a-writin':

For robbin' Colonel Farrell on Gilgarra Mountain.

But they didn't take me fists and I knocked the jailer down

And bid me a farewell to this tight-fisted town.

Musha ringum duram da

I'd like to find me brother, the one who's in the army;

I don't know where he's stationed, be it Cork or in Killarney.

Together we'd go roamin' o'er the mountains of Kilkenny,

And I swear he'd treat me fairer than my darlin' sportin' Jenny!

Musha ringum duram da

There's some that takes delight in the carriages and rollin',

Some that takes delight in the hurley or the bollin',

But I takes delight in the juice of the barley,

Courtin' pretty maids in the mornin', o so early!

Musha ringum duram da

TAKE OUT SOME INSURANCE

JIMMY REED

SONGWRITER: JIMMY REED; CHARLES SINGLETON & WALDENSE HALL

COUNTRY: U.S.A

ALBUM: THE VERY BEST OF JIMMY REED

LABEL: TOMATO RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ BLUES

YEAR: 2000

Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. A major player in electric blues, he had a significant impact on rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Hank Williams, Jr, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jerry Garcia and the Rolling Stones.

If you leave me, baby, say you won't be back

That would be the end of me, 'cause I'd have a heart attack

You better get some insurance on me, baby, take out some insurance on me, baby

'Cause if you ever, ever say goodbye, I'm gonna haul right off and die

Darlin', how I love you, long as I got breath

If we part, I know sweetheart, it would worry me to death

You better get some insurance on me, baby, take out some insurance on me, baby

'Cause if you ever, ever say goodbye, I'm gonna haul right off and die

Don't get no sick and accident, 'cause I'm healthy as can be

Now, if ya got any sense, you'd take the hint and get a Penn Life, on me

You don't know me, baby, like I know myself,

I couldn't live if you should give your love to someone else

Better get some insurance on me, baby, take out some insurance on me, baby

'Cause if you ever, ever say goodbye, I'm gonna haul right off and die.

PARISIENNE WALKWAYS

GARY MOORE

SONGWRITERS: Phil Lynott & Gary Moore

COUNTRY: Northern Irish

ÁLBUM: BACK ON THE STREETS

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1978

Back on the Streets is an album by Northern Irish blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore, released in 1978, and his first authentic solo record (1973's Grinding Stone album being credited to "The Gary Moore Band"). Thin Lizzy bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey appear on four songs, including "Don't Believe A Word" (which originally appeared on the 1976 Thin Lizzy album Johnny the Fox) and the UK top 10 single "Parisienne Walkways". On the album's sleeve, Moore is depicted leaving notorious prison Wormwood Scrubs in the Inner London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in a photograph by Chalkie Davies.

I remember Paris in '49

The Champs Elysee, San Michelle

And old Beaujolais wine

And I recall that you were mine

In those Parisienne days

Looking back at the photographs

Those summer days spent outside corner cafes

Oh, I could write you paragraphs

About my old Parisienne days