sábado, 13 de fevereiro de 2021

1249 – Billy Paul – Me and Mrs. Jones (1972)

 


Escrita por Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff e Cary Gilbert, foi gravada em 1972 e lançada em setembro de 1972 no disco 360 degrees of Billy Paul e também no compacto que tinnha Your song como Lado B. Fala de uma relação extra-conjugal entre um homem e sua amante, chamada Mrs. Jones. Eles se encontram todos os dias secretamente no mesmo café, as 6:30, quando eles dão as mãos e conversam.


A versão de Billy Paul chegou ao número 1 dos charts pop americanos e tambem nos charts de R&B. Chegou ao número 12 no Reino Unido.


Foi regravada por Michael Bublé em 2007.


A letra:


Me and Mrs. Jones
We got a thing, goin' on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

We meet every day at the same cafe
Six-thirty and no one knows she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the juke box plays our favorite songs

Me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones (Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones)
We got a thing, goin' on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

We gotta be extra careful
That do we don't build our hopes up too high
Because she's got her own obligations
And so, and so, do I

Me and Mrs., Mrs. Jones (Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones)
We got a thing, goin' on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong
To let it go now

Well, it's time for us to be leaving
It hurts so much, it hurts so much inside
Now she'll go her way and I'll go mine
Tomorrow we'll meet
The same place, the same time

Me and Mrs. Jones
We got a thing goin' on
We gotta be extra careful
We can't afford to build our hopes up too high
I wanna meet and talk with you
At the same place, the same cafe, the same time
And we gonna hold hands like we used to
We gonna talk it over, talk it over
We know, they know, and you know what I know that it was wrong
But our thing is strong, we gotta let 'em know now
That we gotta thing going on, a thing going on


A versão de Billy Paul:



A versão de Michael Bublé:



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