domingo, 8 de setembro de 2019

960 – Otis Redding – Try a little tenderness (1966)

Escrita por Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly e Harry Woods, foi gravada inicialmente em 1932 pela orquestra de Ray Noble e em 1933 foi gravada por Bing Crosby. A versão que escolhemos no entanto é a de Otis Redding, gravada em 1966 em Memphis, Tennessee e lançada em 15 de outubro de 1966 em seu disco Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding dictionary of Soul.

Otis teve Booker T and The Mgs como banda para gravar esse clássico. Chegou o número 25 dos charts pop americanos. É o número 204 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da revista Rolling Stone.

A letra:

Oh she may be weary
Them young girls they do get wearied
Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah, yeah
But when she gets weary
Try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah
You know she's waiting
Just anticipating
The thing that you'll never, never, never, never possess, yeah, yeah
But while she's there waiting
Without them try a little tenderness
That's all you got to do
It's not just sentimental no, no, no
She has her grief and care, yeah, yeah, yeah
But the soft words they are spoke so gentle, yeah
It makes it easier, easier to bear, yeah
You won't regret it no, no
Young girls they don't forget it
Love is their whole happiness, yeah, yeah, yeah
But it's all so easy
All you got to do is try
Try a little tenderness
Yeah
All you got to do is, man, hold her when you wanna
Squeeze her, don't tease her, never leave her
Get to her, got, got, got to try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah
You got to know how to love her, man
Don't be surprised, man
You got to squeeze her, don't tease her, never leave
You got to hold her, brother, something, man
Try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah, yeah
You got to grab her gently, man
Don't bruise her, no, no
You got to love her, tease her, don't squeeze her
You got to try, na na na na na
Try, try a little tenderness, yeah
Watch her groove
You got to know what to do, man
Take this advice
You gotta love, squeeze, don't tease

A versão de Otis Redding:


A versão de Michael Bublé:


A versão de Paul Giamatti e Andre Braugher:

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