1154 – Joni Mitchell – Little green (1971)

Escrita por Joni Mitchell, foi lançada em 1971 no disco Blue. Foi escrita em 1966, logo após ela ter dado a filha pra adoção, enquanto ainda era uma pobre cantora folk em Toronto. A existência dessa filha nao se tornou pública até 1993, quando uma mulher que dividia um apartamento com Joni contou a história a um tabloide. Ela reencontraria filha em 1997.

A letra:

Born with the moon in cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children who've made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer
He went to california
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter and say, "her eyes are blue."
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little green, he's a non-conformer
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow
Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you are sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry, but you're not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow

A versão de Joni Mitchell:

A versão de Cordelia Gartside:

A versão de Morgan James:

1153 – John Denver – City of New Orleans (1971)

Escrita por Steve Goodman, foi gravada e lançada por ele ainda em 1971 e fala de uma viagem de trem de Chicago pra New Orlens. A nossa versão, no entanto, é a de John Denver, também de 1971.

A idéia surgiu quando Goodman foi de Chicago visitar a familia da sua esposa. Fi também regravada por Arlo Guthrie e Willie Nelson, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along a southbound odyssey
The train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin' towns that have no name
Freight yards full of old black men
The graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Singing good morning America, how are you?
Saying, don't you know me I'm your native son?
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
Dealing cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels a rumbling beneath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel
And mothers with their babes asleep
Rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Singing good morning America, how are you?
Saying don't you know me, I'm your native son?
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home and we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues
Singing good morning America, how are you?
Saying don't you know me, I'm your native son?
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

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1152 – James Taylor – Hey mister, that's me up on the jukebox (1971)

Escrita por James Taylor, foi gravada em janeiro e fevereiro de 1971 e lançada em abril de 1971 no disco Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon.

James Taylor cantou e tocou violão. Carole King tocou piano. Leland Skalar tocou baixo e Russ Kinkel tocou bateria.

A letra:

Hey mister, that's me up on the jukebox
I'm the one that's singing this sad song
Well, I'll cry every time that you slip in one more dime
And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

Southern California, that's as blue as the boy can be
Blue as the deep blue sea
Won't you listen to me now
I need your golden gated cities like a hole in the head
Just like a hole in the head, I'm free

Hey mister, that's me up on the jukebox
I'm the one that's singing this sad song
Well, I'll cry every time that you slip in one more dime
And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

I do believe I'm headed home
Hey mister, can't you see that I'm as dry as a bone
I think I'll spend some time alone
Yes, unless you've found a way of squeezing water from a stone

Let the doctor and the lawyer do as much as they can
Let the springtime begin
Let the boy become a man
I done wasted too much time just to sing you this sad song
I done been this lonesome picker a little too long

Hey mister, that's me up on the jukebox
I'm the one that's singing this sad song
Well, I'll cry every time that you're up and slip in one more dime
And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

Well, I've been spreading myself thin these days
Don't you know
Good-bye

A versão de James Taylor:

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A versão de Judith Owen:

1151 – The Rolling Stones – Bitch (1971)

Escrita por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em outubro de 1970 e lançada em 16 de abril de 1971 no compacto que tinha Brown sugar como Lado A e também saiu no disco Sticky fingers, em 23 de abril de 1971.

Mick Jagger cantou, Keith Richards tocou guitarra solo e fez backing vocals. Mick Taylor toou guitarra ritmica. Bill Wyman tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Bobby Keys tocou sax, Jim Price tocou trompete e Jimmy Miller tocou percussão.

A letra:

Feeling so tired, can't understand it
Just had a fortnight's sleep
I'm feeling so tired, I'm so distracted
Ain't touched a thing all week

I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy
Ain't touched a drink all night
I'm feeling hungry, can't see the reason
Just ate a horse meat pie

Yeah when you call my name
I salivate like a Pavlov dog
Yeah when you lay me out
My heart is beating louder than a big bass drum, alright

Yeah, you got to mix it child
You got to fix it must be love
It's a bitch, yeah
You got to mix it child
You got to fix it but love
It's a bitch, alright

Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud
Like kicking the stall all night
Sometimes I'm so shy, got to be worked on
Don't have no bark or bite, alright

Yeah when you call my name
I salivate like a Pavlov dog
Yeah when you lay me out
My heart is bumpin' louder than a big bass drum, alright

I said hey, yeah I feel alright now
Got to be a
Hey, I feel alright now
Hey hey hey
Hey hey yeah
Hey hey hey
Hey hey yeah
Hey hey hey
Hey hey yeah
Hey hey hey
Hey hey yeah
Hey hey hey

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1150 – Elton John – Indian sunset (1971)

Escrita por Elton John e Bernie Taupin, foi gravada em 14 de agosto de 1971 e lançada em 5 de novembro de 1971 no disco Madman across the water.

Fala da história de um índio americano, guerreiro, que estava prestes a perder pro homem branco.

A versão de Elton John:

As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging
Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee
Oh I went to see my chieftain with my war lance and my woman
For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving
This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead
Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns

Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young
I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums
I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild
To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine

And now you ask that I should watch
The red man's race be slowly crushed
What kind of words are these to hear
From Yellow Dog whom white man fears

I take only what is mine Lord, my pony, my squaw, and my child
I can't stay to see you die, along with my tribe's pride
I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons
Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run

Trampling down the prairie rose, leaving hoof tracks in the sand
Those who wish to follow me, I welcome with my hands
I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead
He'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of lead

Now there seems no reason why I should carry on
In this land that once was my land I can't find a home
It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming
And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running
For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones
Where the buffaloes graze in clover fields without the sound of guns

And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold
And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole

A versão de Elton John:

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1149 – John Lennon – Oh my love (1971)

Escrita por John Lennon e Yoko Ono, foi gravada em 28 de maio e 5 de julho de 1971 e lançada em 9 de setembro de 1971 no disco Imagine. Foi escrita e feita uma demo em 1968 após as sessões do album branco.

George Harrison tocou guitarra, John Lennon cantou e tocou piano, Nicky Hopkins tocou piano eletrico, Klaus Voorman tocou baixo e Alan White tocou bateria e cimbals tibetanos.

Foi regravada por Cilla Black, Jackson Browne, Raimundo Fagner e The Lettermen, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Oh my love for the first time in my life
My eyes are wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My eyes can see

I see the wind
Oh, I see the trees
Everything is clear in my heart
I see the clouds
Oh, I see the sky
Everything is clear in our world

Oh my love for the first time in my life
My mind is wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My mind can feel

I feel the sorrow
Oh, I feel dreams
Everything is clear in my heart
I feel life
Oh, I feel love
Everything is clear in our world

A versão de John Lennon:

A versão de Jackson Browne:

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1148 – Joni Mitchell – River (1971)

Escrita por Joni Mitchell, foi lançada em 1971 no disco Blue. É a segunda música de Joni mais gravada por outros artistas.

É sobre o fim do relacionamento dela com Graham Nash.

Foi regravada por Linda Ronstadt, Barry Manilow, Sarah McLachlan, James Taylor, K.D. Lang, Judy Collins e Ellie Goulding, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

A versão de Joni Mitchell:

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1147 – John Denver – Sunshine on my shoulders (1971)

Escrita por John Denver, Dick Kniss e Mike Taylor, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada no disco Poems, Prayers and Promises, em 6 de abril de 1971. Quando lançada como compacto, chegou ao número 1 dos charts pop em 1974. Chegou também ao número 1 no Canadá.

Denver disse que a escreveu em Minnesota, no final do inverno, começo da primavera. Um dia cinza e com neve derretida no chão. Ele queria poder de novo sair de casa e curtir a rua e fez essa música. John Denver toou violão de 12 e de 6 cordas e cantou. Mike Taylor tocou violão. Richard Kniss tocou baixo e Frank Owens tocou piano.

A letra:

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high

If I had a day that I could give you
I'd give to you the day just like today
If I had a song that I could sing for you
I'd sing a song to make you feel this way

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high

If I had a tale that I could tell you
I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile
If I had a wish that I could wish for you
I'd make a wish for sunshine for all the while

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost all the time makes me high
Sunshine almost always

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1146 – James Taylor – You've got a friend (1971)

Escrita por Carole King, foi primeiramente gravada por ela em 1971 no disco Tapestry, mas a nossa versão é a de James Taylor, também lançada em 1971, no disco Mud slide slim and the blue horizon. Quando lançada em compacto chegou ao número 1 nos charts pop americanos e número 4 nos charts britânicos. As duas versões foram gravadas ao mesmo tempo, com os mesmos músicos.

A versão de James ganhou dois Grammies.

Foi regravada por Dusty Springfield, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin e Anne Murray, entre outros artistas.

James Taylor cantou e tocou violão. Joni Mitchell fez backing vocals. Denny Kortchmar tocou violão e congas. Leland Skalar tocou baixo e Russ Kunkel tocou bateria, congas e cabasa.

A letra:

When you're down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, oh yeah baby, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And I'll be there, ye, ye, ye
You've got a friend

If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep you head together
And call my name out loud now
Soon you'll hear me knocking at you door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, oh yes I will, to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall, ye
All you have to do is call
And I'll be there, ye, ye, yeah

Ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
When people can be so cold
They'll hurt you, and desert you
And take your soul if you let them, oh yeah, don't you let 'em now

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again, oh baby, don't you know
Winter, spring, summer or fall
Hey now, all you have to do is call
And I'll be there, yes I will
You've got a friend
You've got a friend, yeah

Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend

Oh, ye yeah, you've got a friend

A versão de James Taylor:

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1145 – The Rolling Stones – Can't you hear me knocking? (1971)

Escrita por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em março e maio de 1970 e lançada em 23 de abril de 1971 no disco Sticky Fingers. A canção tem mais de 7 minutos, começando com a guitarra de Keith Richards e com quase 3 minutos, temos a parte instrumental com Rocky Dijon nas congas, Bobby Keys tocando seu sax tenor sobre a guitarra de Richards e Mick Taylor, pontuado pelo orgao de Billy Preston. Perto dos 5 minutos, Mick Taylor toma o solo de Richards e sola até o final da música com um solo enorme.

A parte final não estava planejada, pois pensaram que o tape nem estava mais rolando, mas Taylor continuou tocando a todos pegaram os instrumentos de novo e ficou gravado essa jam na fita final.

É o número 25 da lista das 100 maiores canções de guitarras do mundo, da revista Rolling Stone.

Mick Jagger cantou, Keith Richards tocou guitarra solo e fez backing vocals. Mick Taylor tocou guitarra solo, ritmica e fez backing vocals. Bill Wyman tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Rocky Dijon tocou congas, Bobby Keys tocou sax, Billy Preston tocou orgao e Jimmy Miller tocou percussao.

A letra:

Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed-freak jive

Can't you hear me knockin' on your window
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door
Can't you hear me knockin' down your dirty street, yeah

Help me baby, ain't no stranger
Can you help me baby, ain't no stranger
Help me baby, ain't no stranger

Can't you hear me knockin', ah, are you safe asleep?
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, down the gas light street, now
Can't you hear me knockin', yeah, throw me down the keys
Alright now

Hear me ringing big bell tolls
Hear me singing soft and low
I've been begging on my knees
I've been kickin', help me please
Hear me prowlin'
I'm gonna take you down
Hear me growlin'
Yeah, I've got flatted feet now, now, now, now
Hear me howlin'
And all, all around your street now
Hear me knockin'
And all, all around your town

A versão dos Rolling Stones:

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1144 – Elton John – Tiny dancer (1971)

Escrita por Elton John e Bernie Taupie, foi gravada em 9 de agosto de 1971 e lançada em 5 de novembro de 1971 no disco Madman across the water. Foi também lançada como compacto em 1972.

A letra da canção foi inspirada na primeira visita de Taupin aos Estados Unidos em 1970, que foi feita na intenção de capturar o espírito da California, onde ele encontrou mulheres muito diferentes das mulheres que ele conhecia na Inglaterra. Foi feita pra Maxine Feibelman, sua esposa então.

É a canção número 397 das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da Revista Rolling Stone.

A letra:

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

A versão de Elton John:

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1143 – John Lennon – Power to the people (1971)

Escrita por John Lennon, foi gravada em janeiro e fevereiro de 1971 e lançada em 12 de março no compacto que tinha Open your box como Lado B. Chegou ao número 11 nos charts pop americanos e número 6 no Reino Unido.

John cantou, tocou guitarra e piano. Klaus Voorman tocou baixo. Billy Preston tocou teclado e piano. Bobby Keys tocou sax. Jim Gordon tocou bateria.

Foi regravada por Eric Burdon, Billy Preston e Ringo Starr (juntos), entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people

Power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

Say we want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well, get then on your feet
And enter the street

Singin' power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

A million workers workin' for nothin'
You better give 'em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singin' power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

I got to ask you, comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home?
She got to be herself
So she can hear herself

Singin' power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

Now, now, now, now

Oh well, power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

Oh yeah, power to the people, power to the people
Power to the people, power to the people, right on

Power to the people, power to the people
Oh well, power to the people, power to the people

Oh well, power to the people, power to the people

A versão de John Lennon:

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1142 – Joni Mitchell – The last time I saw Richard (1971)

Escrita por Joni Mitchell, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada em 1971 no disco Blue.

A canção fala do ex-marido de Joni, Chuck Mitchell e o casamento curto deles. Richard (Chuck) vivia com Joni em Detroit desde 1965 quando casaram, até 1967 quando se separaram e ela se mudou pra New York City.

Foi regravada, entre outros artistas, pela Legião Urbana, em 1992.

A letra:

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe
You laugh, he said you think you're immune, go look at your eyes
They're full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies, just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whir
And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said drink up now it's gettin' on time to close
Richard, you haven't really changed, I said
It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head
You got tombs in your eyes, but the songs
You punched are dreaming
Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?

Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator
And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days

A versão de Joni Mitchell:

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1141 – The Who – The Song is over (1971)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada em 11 de maio de 1971 e lançada em 14 de agosto de 1971 o disco Who's next? Conta a história de um show onde a polícia invade o Lifehouse Teathre e o público desaparece.

Tem vocais de Pete Townshend e Roger Daltrey e piano com Nicky Hopkins. Keith Moon na bateria, e John Entwistle no baixo.

A letra:

The song is over
It's all behind me
I should have known it
She tried to find me

Our love is over
They're all ahead now
I've got to learn it
I'm gonna to sing out

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

When I walked in through the door
Thought it was me I was looking for
She was the first song I ever sang
But it stopped as soon as it began

Our love is over
It's all behind me
They're all ahead now
Can't hope to find me

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

This song is over
I'm left with only tears
I must remember
Even if it takes a million years

The song is over
The song is over

Searchin' for a note, pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

A versão do The Who:

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1140 – Led Zeppelin – The Battle of Evermore (1971)

Escrita por Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada em 8 de novembro de 1971 no disco Led Zeppelin IV.

A canção faz referencias à Lord of The Rings e Sandy Denny foi chamada pra fazer um dueto de vozes com Plant. Essa foi a única música da banda que teve um vocalista convidado.

A letra:

Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold,
The seas of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black, the tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry, pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black, ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back, bring it back.
At last the sun is shining, the clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

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1139 – The Rolling Stones – Brown sugar (1971)

Escrita por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em dezembro de 1969 e lançada em 23 de abril de 1971 no disco Sticky Fingers. Foi a canção que abriu o disco. É a canção número 495 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da revista Rolling Stone.

Fala de escravidão, estupro, sexo interracial, sexo oral, sadomasoquismo, perda da virgindade e heroína.

Quando lançada em compacto, chegou ao número 1 nos Estados Unidos e Canadá e número 2 no Reino Unido.

Foi regravada por Little Richard, entre outros artistas.

Foi também número 1 na Holanda e Suíça, número 2 na Irlanda, número 4 na Alemanha e Noruega, número 5 na Australia e Espanha e número 7 na Bélgica.

Mick Jagger cantou e tocou percussão. Keith Richards tocou guitarra e violão. Mick Taylor tocou guitarra. Bill Wyman tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Ian Stewart tocou piano e Bobby Keys tocou sax tenor.

A letra:

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doin' all right
You should have heard him just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a Cajun Queen,
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no school boy but I know what I like
You should have heard them just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
How come you, how come you dance so good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo

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