845 – Leonard Cohen – Lady midnight (1969)

Escrita por Leonard Cohen, foi gravada em outubro de 1968 e lançada em 7 de abril de 1969 no disco Songs from a room, o segundo disco da carreira de Leonard Cohen.

A letra:

I came by myself to a very crowded place;
I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.
I found her there but she was past all concern;
I asked her to hold me, I said, "Lady, unfold me, "
But she scorned me and she told me
I was dead and I could never return.

Well, I argued all night like so many have before,
Saying, "Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more."
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,
She said, "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me,
Just win me or lose me,
It is this that the darkness is for."

I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,
The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold."
"If we cry now, " she said, "it will just be ignored."
So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning,
I could hear my lady calling,
"You've won me, you've won me, my lord,
You've won me, you've won me, my lord,
Yes, you've won me, you've won me, my lord,

Ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord,
Ah, you've won me, you've won me, my lord."

A versão de Leonard Cohen:

A versão de Andi Knitell:

A versão de John Bliemer:

0003 – The Acid Queen - The Who (1969)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada em 19 de setembro de 1968 e lançada no disco rock ópera da banda chamado Tommy, em 23 de maio de 1969. Pete é quem canta. A canção fala da tentativa dos pais de Tommy de curá-lo, usando uma espécie de feiticeira chamada The Acid Queen. Ela dá pra ele vários tipos de drogas alucinógenas e também muito sexo, na tentativa de libertá-lo do isolamento em que ele estava acometido. Ela não foi bem sucedida na tarefa. Como foi dito, Pete canta, toca violão, guitarra e piano elétrico. John Entwistle toca o baixo e Keith Moon toca bateria. Foi regravada por Tina Turner, Patty Labelle e Bette Midler, entre outros artistas. A idéia de levar o filho pra uma mulher dar drogas e trepar com ele para curá-lo e tirá-lo do seu estado catatônico é muito louca, mesmo pros padrões dos anos 60. Ela promete quebrar a alma dele no meio se ele passar uma noite com ela. Alguém consegue imaginar isso nos dias de hoje? A proteção enorme dos pais sobre os filhos. Há uma dica de que o serviço não vai ter efeito. Ela pede pra pagar adiantado várias vezes.

If your child ain't all he should be now
This girl could put him right
I'll show him what he could be now
Just give me one night

I'm the Gypsy, the acid Queen
Pay before we start
The Gypsy, I'm guaranteed
To tear your soul apart

Give us a room and close the door
Leave us for a while
Your boy won't be a boy no more
Young, but not a child

I'm the Gypsy, the acid Queen
Pay before we start
The Gypsy, I'm guaranteed
To tear your soul apart

Gather your wits and hold on fast
Your mind must learn to roam
Just as the Gypsy Queen must do
You're gonna hit the road

My work is done now look at him
He's never been more alive
His head it shakes his fingers clutch
Watch his body writhe

I'm the Gypsy, the acid Queen
Pay before we start
The Gypsy, I'm guaranteed
To break your little heart

If your child ain't all he should be now
This girl will put him right
I'll show him what he could be now
Just give me one night

I'm the Gypsy, the acid Queen
Pay before we start
The Gypsy, I'm guaranteed
To tear your soul apart

A versão do Who:

A versão de Tina Turner:

A versão de Patti LaBelle com o Who:

843 – The Beatles – I want you (She's so heavy) (1969)

Escrita por John Lennon mas creditada à dupla Lennon/McCartney, foi gravada em 22 de fevereiro e 11 de agosto e 1969 e lançada no disco Abbey Road, em 26 de setembro de 1969. Inclusive no dia que finalizaram essa música, foi última vez que os 4 Beatles estiveram juntos em um estúdio.

É sobre Yoko Ono. John cantou e fez backing vocals, tocou guitarra solo e sintetizador. Paul tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. George Harrison fez backing vocals, tocou guitarra rítmica e solo. Ringo tocou bateria e congas e Billy Preston tocou órgão Hammond.

Foi regravada pelos Bee Gees, Booker T. and The MGS, George Benson, Sarah Vaugh, Soda Stereo, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

She's so heavy
Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
You know I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

Yeah, she's so heavy

A versão original dos Beatles:

A versão dos Bee Gees:

A versão de Sarah Vaughn:

842 – Crosby, Stills and Nash – Wooden ships (1969)

Escrita por David Crosby, Paul Kantner e Stephen Stills, foi gravada em 20 de fevereiro de 1969 e lançada no mesmo ano no disco Crosby, Stills and Nash. Kantner foi um dos fundadores do Jefferson Airplane. A música foi composta em Fort Lauderdale, na Flórida, num barco chamado Mayan, de propriedade de Crosby, que compôs a música e Kantner e Stills escreveram a letra. Foi lançada também no mesmo ano pelo Jefferson Airplane.

Foi escrita na era da guera do Vietnã e descreve os horrores de um possivel holocauto nuclear onde quase todo mundo morre. Os barcos são de madeira porque se forem de metal se tornam radioativos.

David Crosby cantou e tocou guitarra rítmica, Stephen Stills cantou, tocou guitarra solo, baixo e teclados, Graham Nash fez backing vocals e Dallas Taylor tocou bateria.

A letra:

[Intro. (Electric Guitar)]

[Stills:] If you smile at me I will understand
'Cause that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language
[Crosby:] I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won?
[Stills:] Say can I have some of your purple berries?
[Crosby:] Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now haven't got sick once
[Stills:] Probably keep us both alive

Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Talkin' 'bout very free and easy

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't need us

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

Aaaah ...
Go take your sister then by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't need us

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go

[Ending (Electric Guitar and Organ)]

A versão de Crosby, Stills and Nash:

A versão do Jefferson Airplane:

A versão de Christine Harwood:

841 – Elvis Presley – Suspicious minds (1969)

Escrita por Mark James, foi lançada inicialmente por ele em 1968, mas obteve sucesso somente com Elvis Presley no ano seguinte e é a versão que escolhemos aqui. Elvis gravou-a em 23 de janeiro de 1969, em Memphis, Tennessee e lançou-a em 26 de agosto de 1969 em um compacto que tinha You'll think of me como Lado B. Chegou ao número 1 nos Estados Unidos.

É a canção número 91 da lista da revista Rolling Stone das 500 maiores canções já gravadas.

Fala de um relacionamento cheio de ciumes por parte da mulher e que eles precisam resolver esse problema pras coisas poderem dar certo.

Donna Jean Godchaux, que viria a ser vocalista do Grateful Dead, fez backing vocals na gravação. Elvis cantou, Reggie Young tocou guitarra, Bobby Emmons tocou órgão, Mike Leech tocou baixo, Gene Chrisman tocou bateria, Wayne jackson, Dick Steff e R.F Taylor tocaram trompete. Ed Logan, Jack Hale, Geraldo Richardson tocaram trombones. Donna Tatcher, Toni Wine, Dolore Edgin, mary Greene, Ginger Holladay, Mary Holladay, Millie Kirkham, Sonja Montgomery, June Page, Susan Pilkington e Sandy Posey fizeram os backing vocals.

Foi regravada por B.J. Thomas, Waylon Jennings, No Doubt, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds (suspicious minds)
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

So, if an old friend I know
Stops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?

Here we go again
Asking where I've been
You can't see the tears are real
I'm crying (Yes, I'm crying)

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds (suspicious minds)
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

Oh, let our love survive
Or dry the tears from your eyes
Let's don't let a good thing die
When, honey, you know
I've never lied to you
Mmm, yeah, yeah

We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

Don't you know I'm caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby

A versão de Elvis Presley:

A versão de Mark James, original:

A versão de No Doubt:

840 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down at the corner (1969)

Escrita por John Fogerty, foi gravada em 1969 e lançada em setembro de 1969 em um compacto que tinha Fortunate son como Lado B. Chegou ao número 3 dos charts pop americanos.

Fala de uma banda fictícia chamada Willy and The Poor Boys, que toca nas esquinas para animar as pessoas e ganhar moedas.

Foi regravada por Bo Diddley, Harry Belafonte, The Weather Girls, Brian Adams, entre outros.

A letra:

Early in the evenin' just about supper time
Over by the courthouse, they're startin' to unwind
Four kids on the corner tryin' to bring you up
Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile
Blinky thumps the gut bass and solos for a while
Poorboy twangs the rhythm out on his kalamazoo
And Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

You don't need a penny just to hang around
But if you've got a nickel, won't you lay your money down?
Over on the corner, there's a happy noise
People come from all around to watch the magic boys

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

A versão do Creedence Clearwater Revival:

A versão de Georgia Rose:

A versão de Scott and Jay:

839 – Leonard Cohen – The Partisan (1969)

Escrita por Paul Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie e Anna Marly em 1943 em Londres, e Hy Zaret fez a letra em inglês, sobre a resistência francesa na Segunda Guerra. Foi gravada por Leonard Cohen em outubro de 1968 e lançada em 7 de abril de 1969 no segundo disco dele chamado Songs from a room.

A letra:

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often
I've lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me

An old woman gave us shelter
Kept us hidden in the garret
Then the soldiers came
She died without a whisper

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
But I must go on
The frontiers are my prison

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows

Les Allemands étaient chez moi
Ils me dirent, "résigne toi"
Mais je n'ai pas peur
J'ai repris mon âme

J'ai changé cent fois de nom
J'ai perdu femme et enfants
Mais j'ai tant d'amis
J'ai la France entière

Un vieil homme dans un grenier
Pour la nuit nous a caché
Les Allemands l'ont pris
Il est mort sans surprise

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows

A versão de Leonard Cohen:

A versão de Adam Cohen, Damien Rice e Cour de Pirate:

A versão de Joan Baez:

838 – The Guess Who – Undun (1969)

Escrita por `Randy Bachman, foi gravada pelo Guess Who em 1969 na RCA em New York City e lançada em julho de 1969 em um compacto que tinha Laughing como Lado A. Chegou ao número 22 nos charts pop americanos.

Bachman compôs essa canção após ter visto uma garota numa festa que após uma viagem de ácido, ficou de coma. É a canção preferida de Bachman e também de Burton Cummings.

Burton Cummings cantou, tocou piano e flauta. Rand Bachman tocou guitarra. Jim Kale tocou baixo e Garry Peterson tocou bateria.

A letra:

She's come undun
She didn't know what she was headed for
And when I found what she was headed for
It was too late

She's come undun
She found a mountain that was far too high
And when she found out she couldn't fly
It was too late

It's too late
She's gone too far
She's lost the sun

She's come undun
She wanted truth but all she got was lies
Came the time to realize
And it was too late

She's come undun
She didn't know what she was headed for
And when I found what she was headed for
Mama, it was too late

It's too late
She's gone too far
She's lost the sun
She's come undun

Too many mountains, and not enough stairs to climb
Too many churches and not enough truth
Too many people and not enough eyes to see
Too many lives to lead and not enough time

It's too late
She's gone too far
She's lost the sun

She's come undun

It's too late
She's gone too far
She's lost the sun

She's come undun
She didn't know what she was headed for
And when I found what she was headed for
It was too late

She's come undun
She found a mountain that was far too high
And when she found out she couldn't fly
Mama, it was too late

It's too late
She's gone too far
She's lost the sun

She's come undun
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

A versão do Guess Who:

A versão de Regan Wood:

A versão de Circe Link:

837 – The Beatles – Oh, darling! (1969)

Escrita por Paul McCartney mas creditada à dupla Lennon/McCartney, foi gravada em 20 de abril e 11 de agosto de 1969 e lançada em 26 de setembro de 1969 no disco Abbey Road.

John disse que poderia ter cantado melhor do que Paul, mas como ele escreveu, ela que cantou. George Harrison disse que era uma canção anos 50/60, por causa da estrutura de acordes. Nunca foi tocada ao vivo pelos Beatles ou por Paul McCartney.

Paul cantou, tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. John tocou piano e fez backing vocals. George Harrison tocou guitarra e fez backing vocals. Ringo tocou bateria.

Oh! Darling foi fortemente influenciada por Fats Domino e o som de New Orleans.

Foi regravada por Robin Gibb e também pelos Bee Gees em 1978, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
I'll never do you no harm, no harm

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried

Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never let you down
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

A versão dos Beatles:

A versão de Elle King:

A versão de Haley Reinhart:

836 – Crosby, Stills and Nash – Suite: Judy blue eyes (1969)

Escrita por Stephen Still e David Crosby, foi lançada em setembro de 1969 no compacto que tinha Long time gone como Lado B. Chegou ao número 21 dos charts pop americanos e número 11 no Canadá. É uma Suite no sentido clássico: Um ordenado de peças musicais juntas. Foi usado o Suite para parecer com Sweet.

A música é dedicada à namorada de Stills Judy Collins e fala dos pensamentos sobre ela e do eminente rompimento do casal. Eles haviam começado o relacionamento em 1967 e já estavam juntos há 2 anos, mas ela havia conhecido Stacy Keach e deixaria Stills por ele. Ele estava devastado e escreveu a canção em resposta a própria tristeza.

Suite: Judy Blues Eyes é a música de número 418 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da Rolling Stone Magazine. É uma das 500 canções que deram forma ao rock and roll, do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. VH1 disse que ela é a 51a melhor canção já escrita de todos os tempos.

David Crosby fez backing vocals, Stephen Still cantou, tocou violão, baixo, teclado e percussão. Graham Nash fez backing vocals.

A letra:

It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore
I am sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
I am lonely

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard

Remember what we've said and done and felt about each other
Oh, babe have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
I am not dreaming

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Tearing yourself away from me now you are free
And I am crying
This does not mean I don't love you I do that's forever
Yes and for always

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard

Something inside is telling me that I've got your secret
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
And I love you

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Friday evening
Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got to lose?

Tuesday morning
Please be gone I'm tired of you
What have you got to lose?

Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I'm sufferin')
Listen to me baby
It's my heart that's a sufferin' it's a dyin' (Help me I'm dyin')
And that's what I have to lose (To lose)

I've got an answer
I'm going to fly away
What have I got to lose?

Will you come see me
Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing a song, don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Voices of the angels
Ring around the moonlight
Asking me said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Lacy lilting lyric
Losing love lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Que linda me la traiga Cuba
La reina de la Mar Caribe
Cielo sol no tiene sangreahi
Y que triste que no puedo vaya oh va, oh va

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

A versão de Crosby, Stills and Nash:

A versão de The Jay Sekulow Band:

A versão de Josh Turner:

0039 – Baby, I'm gonna leave you - Led Zeppelin (1969)

Compositor: Anne Bredon

• Foi gravada em outubro de 1968 e lançada em 12 de janeiro de 1969 no disco de estréia do Led Zeppeli, chamado Led Zeppelin.
• A versão do Led Zeppelin foi inspirada na versão feita por Joan Baez dessa canção, em 1962. Ela foi composta no final dos anos 50s.

A letra:

Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you
I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you

I'll leave you when the summertime
Leave you when the summer comes a rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along

Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby, baby
I don't want to leave you
I ain't jokin' woman, I got to ramble
Oh yeah

Baby, baby, babe, I believin'
We really got to ramble
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do
I can hear it callin' me back home

Babe, I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you
Oh I can hear it callin 'me
I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?
Oh

I know, I know
I know I never never never never never gonna leave your babe
But I got to go away from this place

I've got to quit you, yeah

Ooh, baby baby baby baby baby baby ooh
Don't you hear it callin' me?Oh

Woman, woman, I know, I know
It feels good to have you back again
And I know that one day baby, it's really gonna grow, yes it is
We gonna go walkin' through the park every day

Come what may, every day
Oh, mama baby
I'm gonna leave you go away, oh

It was really, really good
You made me happy every single day
But now, I've got to go away

Baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said that's when it's callin' me back home

A versão do Led Zeppelin:

A versão de Joan Baez:

A versão do Association:

834 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi (1969)

Escrita por John Fogerty, foi gravada em março de 1969 no Wally Heider's Studios, em San Francisco, California e lançada em abril de 1969 em um compacto que tinha Bad Moon Rising como Lado A.

A canção fala de um músico que estava sem rimo na carreira e que tinha que tocar em Lodi, uma pequena cidade agropecuária na California. Depois de tocar nos bares locais, o narrador se sente preso pois nunca consegue arrumar o dinheiro da passagem pra sair dali.

Foi regravada por Emmylou Harris, Tom Jones, Buck Owens, Bo Diddley, entre outros.

A letra:

Just about a year ago
I set out on the road
Seekin' my fame and fortune
Lookin' for a pot of gold
Thing got bad things got worse
I guess you will know the tune
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again

I rode in on the Greyhound
I'll be walkin' out if I go
I was just passin' through
Must be seven seven months or more
Ran out of time and money
Looks like they took my friends
Oh Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again

The man from the magazine
Said I was on my way
Somewhere I lost connections
Ran out of songs to play
I came into town, a one night stand
Looks like my plans fell through
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again

If I only had a dollar
For ev'ry song I've sung
And ev'ry time I had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know, I'd catch the next train
Back to where I live
Oh Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again
Oh Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again

Songwriters: John Cameron Fogerty

A versão do Creedence Clearwater Revival:

A versão de Emmylou Harris:

A versão de Tom Jones:

0067 – Bird on the wire - Leonard Cohen (1969)

Escrita por Leonard Cohen, foi gravada em 26 de setembro de 1968, em Nashville, Tennessee. Foi lançada em abril de 1969 no disco Songs from a room. Quem primeiro lançou-a foi Judy Collins, ainda em 1968. Joe Cocker iria lançar sua versão em 1969. Além dos dois citados, foi regravada também por Jackie DeShannon, Dave Van Ronk, Jennifer Warnes, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, KD Lang e Elvis Costello, entre outros artistas.

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee

If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you

For like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me

But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "you must not ask for so much"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh, like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

A versão de Leonard Cohen:

A versão de Joe Cocker:

A versão de Willie Nelson:

832 – The Guess Who – Laughing (1969)

Escrita por Randy Bachman e Burton Cummings, foi gravada em 1969 nos estudios da RCA em New York City e lançada em julho de 1969 no compacto que tinha Undun como Lado B. Chegou ao número no Canadá e número 10 nos charts pop americanos.

Burton Cummings cantou, tocou teclado e guitarra ritmica. Randy Bachman tocou guitarra solo e fez backing vocals. Jim Kale tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Garry Peterson tocou bateria.

A letra:

I should laugh, but I cry
Because your love has passed me by
You took me by surprise
You didn't realize but I was waiting

Time goes slowly, but carries on
And now the best years have come and gone
You took me by surprise
I didn't realize that you were laughing

'cause you're doin' it to me
(Laughing) it ain't the way it should be
You took away everything I had, you put the hurt on me

'cause you're doin' it to me
(Laughing) it ain't the way it should be
You took away everything I had, you put the hurt on me

I go alone now, calling your name
After losing at the game
You took me by surprise
I didn't realize that you were laughing

Time goes slowly, but carries on
And now the best years
The best years have come and gone
You took me by surprise
I didn't realize that you were laughing

'cause you're doin' it to me
(Laughing) it ain't the way it should be
You took away everything I had, you put the hurt on me

'cause you're doin' it to me
(Laughing) oh, whatch doing to me?
You took away everything I had ,you put the hurt on me, oh

ha ha ha ha ha ha
(Laughing) ha ha ha ha ha ha
(Laughing) what, you laughing at me?
(Laughing) what, you laughing at me?

oh, what you do on the weekend?
(Laughing) I wanna look when you're laughing
(Laughing) I wanna look when you're laughing
(Laughing)

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0053 – The Ballad of John and Yoko - The Beatles (1969)

Compositor: John Lennon e Paul McCartney

• Foi gravada 14 de abril de 1969 e lançada em 30 de maio de 1969 no compacto que tinha Old brown shoe como Lado B.

• É uma espécie de crônica falando sobre o casamento de John e Yoko.

• Foi o décimo sétimo número 1 dos Beatles no Reino Unido e último. Chegou também ao número 8 no Billboard Hot 100.

• Chegou ao número 1 na Austrália, Áustria, Bélgica, Irlanda, Holanda, Noruega, Suíca e Alemanha Ocidental.

• Ringo e George Harrison estavam ausentes, então a canção foi gravada apenas por John e Paul.

• John cantou, tocou guitarra solo, violão e percussão. Paul fez backing vocals, tocou bateria, baixo, piano e maracas.

A letra:

Standing in the dock at Southampton
Trying to get to Holland or France
The man in the mac said
You've got to go back
You know they didn't even give us a chance

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

Finally made the plane into Paris
Honeymooning down by the Seine
Peter Brown call to say
You can make it O.K.
You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton
Talking in our beds for a week
The newspapers said
Say what're you doing in bed
I said we're only trying to get us some peace

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

Saving up your money for a rainy day
Giving all your clothes to charity
Last night the wife said
Oh boy when you're dead
You don't take nothing with you but your soul, think

Made a lightning trip to Vienna
Eating chocolate cake in a bag
The newspapers said
She's gone to his head
They look just like two gurus in drag

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

Caught the early plane back to London
Fifty acorns tied in a sack
The men from the press
Said we wish you success
It's good to have the both of you back

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

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