Sunday 27 September 2020

Bruce Springsteen - Brothers Under The Bridge

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQadj9AZyH0

Every spring when the weather gets warm
They come pourin' into town straight off of them farms
Driving 455s running hard and strong
They'd scratch built in them tool sheds all winter long
'Neath the trestles drinkin' the beer and the wine
Now some came to run, some just to pass the time
With the brothers under the bridges

Me and Tommy we was just fourteen, didn't have our licenses yet
Our walls were covered with pictures of cars we'd get
We'd listen and wait for that highway to rumble and quake
As they drove in through town when the weekend'd break
Bringin' girls with that distant look in their eyes
Now together 'neath the trestles they'd be laughing in the night
With the brothers under the bridges

Well me and my brother'd hitched a ride in Joey's pickup to the edge of town
And we watched from the tall grass as the challenges were made and the duels went down
We'd hitchhike back home, sneak in, get in bed before our mom'd come
And we'd lay there in the night talkin' about how we might someday be one
Yeah someday run with the brothers under the bridges

Well now I hear a cry in the distance and the sound of marching feet come and gone
Well I'm stittin' down here by this highway figuring, figuring just where I belong
Tonight up on Signal Hill I watch a young man in a red shirt walking through a night so still
Put his jacket 'round his girl as the autumn wind send a chill
Through the brothers under the bridges

Friday 4 September 2020

Alabama 3 - Woke up This Morning

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y4u52__vUY

 I woke up this morning Got myself a gun Mama always said I'd be The Chosen One. One in a million I Believe I've got to burn to shine But I was born under a bad sign With a blue moon in my eyes. I woke up this morning All the love has gone Papa never told me About right and wrong. But I'm looking good, baby I believe and I'm feeling fine I was born under a bad sign With a blue moon in my eyes. So help me now Woke up this morning I got a blue moon in my eyes Goddamn shame about it Woke up this morning I got a blue moon in my eyes I woke up this morning The world turned upside down Thing's ain't been the same Since the Blues walked into town. But I'm one in a million 'Cause I've got that shotgun shine. Shame about it Born under a bad sign With a blue moon in my eyes. Woke up this morning I got a blue moon in my eyes Goddamn shame about it Woke up this morning I got a blue moon in my eyes I can't help my self I woke up this morning Everything was gone. By half past ten my head was going ding-dong. Ringing like a bell from my head down to my toes Like a voice trying to tell me there was something I should know. Last night I was flying but today I'm so low Ain't it times like these that make me wonder if I'll ever know The meaning of things as they appear to The others; Wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. I wish I didn't function, And I wish I didn't think Beyond the next paycheck and the next little drink' Well I do so make up my mind to go on, 'Cos when I woke up this morning Everything I had was gone. Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' Got my self a gun Got my self a gun I just can't help myself, yeah Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' Woke up this mornin' and A-got my self a gun Got my self a gun. Got myself a gun.