864 – David Bowie – Janine (1969)

Escrita por David Bowie, foi gravada entre junho e setembro de 1969 e lançada em 14 de novembro de 1969 no segundo disco de David Bowie.

A letra:

Oh my love, Janine
I'm helpless for your smile
Like a Polish wander
I travel ever onwards to your land
And were it not just for the jewels, I'd close your hand

Your strange demand
To collocate my mind
Scares me into gloom
You're too intense
I'll have to keep you in your place
I've no defense
I've got to keep my veil on my face

Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
But I've got things inside my head
That even I can't face

Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls
But if you take an axe to me
You'll kill another man
Not me at all

You're fey, Janine
A tripper to the last
But if I catch you standing on my toes
I'll have a right to shout you down
For you're a lazy stream
In which my thoughts would drown

So stay, Janine
And we can glide along
I've caught your wings for laughs
I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
So take your glasses off
And don't act so sincere

Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
But I've got things inside my head
That even I can't face

Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls
But if you take an axe to me
You'll kill another man
Not me at all
Yeah
Oh ah
Ooooo
Oh Janine
Hey Janine
Oh Janine
Ah ho
Oh Janine
Ho how
Janine
Ah Janine yeah
Janine Janine Janine
Yeah yeah

A versão de David Bowie:

A versão de Jerry Leger:

A versão de Jack Hicko:

863 – The Who – I'm free (1969)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada em 1969 e lançada em 5 de julho de 1969 em um compacto que tinha We're not gonna take it como Lado B.

Pete disse que a canção foi inspirada em Street fighting man, dos Rolling Stones.

Roger Daultrey fez os vocais principais. Pete Townshend fez os backing vocals e tocou guitarra, teclado e bateria. John Entwistle tocou baixo e bateria. Keith Moon tocou bateria.

Foi regravada por Roger Daultrey com a Orquestra Sinfonica de Londres.

A letra:

I'm free
I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality
I'm free
I'm free
An' I'm waiting for you to follow me

If I told you what it takes
To reach the highest high
You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'
But you've been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free
I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality

I'm free
I'm free
An' I'm waiting for you to follow me

How can we follow?
How can we follow?

A versão do The Who:

A versão do Green Wine for Dreaming:

862 – The Beatles – Octopus's garden (1969)

Escrita por Ringo Starr, foi gravada em 26 e 29 de abril de 1969 e em 17 e 18 de julho de 1969 e lançada em 26 de setembro de 1969 no disco Abbey Road. Foi a segunda composição de Ringo. E foi a última canção lançada pelos Beatles que tinha Ringo nos vocais.

A idéia veio quando Ringo estava no barco de Peter Sellers na Sardinia em 1968. Ele pediu fish and chips pra almoçar mas veio Lula com chips. Foi a primeira vez que ele comeu lula. O capitão do barco então contou a ele como as Lulas andavam nos oceanos pegando pedras e objetos para construir jardins.

Ringo cantou, tocou bateria, percussão e efeitos sonoros. George harrison tocou guitarra solo e fez backing vocals. Paul tocu baixo, piano e fez backing vocals. John tocou guitarra ritmica e fez backing vocals.

A letra:

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
(Lies beneath the ocean waves)
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you

A versão de Ringo Starr ao vivo em 2007:

A versão de Student Loan Stringband:

A versão de Teladesor:

861 – Joe Dassin – Les Champs Élysées (1969)

Escrita por Michael Anthony and Michael Wilshaw, foi lançada em inglês em 1968 sob o nome de Waterloo road, gravada por Jason Crest.

A nossa versão, porém, teve letra em francês de Pierre Delanoë e foi gravada por Joe Dassin sob o titulo de Les Champs Élysées. Foi lançada em maio de 1960 em um compacto que tinha Le chemin du papa como Lado B.

A letra:

Je m'baladais sur l'avenue le cœur ouvert à l'inconnu
J'avais envie de dire bonjour à n'importe qui
N'importe qui et ce fut toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi
Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Tu m'as dit "J'ai rendez-vous dans un sous-sol avec des fous
Qui vivent la guitare à la main, du soir au matin"
Alors je t'ai accompagnée, on a chanté, on a dansé
Et l'on n'a même pas pensé à s'embrasser

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue
Deux amoureux tout étourdis par la longue nuit

Et de l'Étoile à la Concorde, un orchestre à mille cordes
Tous les oiseaux du point du jour chantent l'amour

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit

A versão de Joe Dassin ao vivo:

A versão de Arnon Friedman:

A versão de Alice Tarran Banks:

860 – The Velvet Underground – Pale blue eyes (1969)

Escrita por Lou Reed, foi gravada em novembro e dezembro de 1968 e lançada em março de 1969 no disco The Velvet Underground.

Apesar do nome, a música foi feita pra uma garota que não tinha os olhos azuis. Foi feita pro primeiro amor de Reed, chamada Shelley Albin, que na época era casada.

Lou Reed cantou e tocou guitarra Doug Yule tocou baixo, orgao Hammond e fez Backing vocals. Maureen Tucker tocou pandeiro.

Foi regravada por Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Patti Smith, R.E.M., Marisa Monte, Hole, Counting Crows, Andrea Corr, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad

Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

Thought of you as my mountaintop
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything
I've had, but couldn't keep
I've had, but couldn't keep

Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

If I could make the world as pure
And strange as what I see
I'd put you in a mirror
I put in front of me
I put in front of me

Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

Skip a life completely
Stuff it in a cup
She said "money is like us in time
It lies, but can't stand up"
Down for you is up

Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

It was good what we did yesterday
And I'd do it once again
The fact that you are married
Only proves you're my best friend
But it's truly, truly a sin

Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

A versão do Velvet Underground:

A versão de Sheryl Crow com Emmylou Harris:

A versão do R.E.M.:

859 – The Band – Look out Cleveland (1969)

Escrita por Robbie Robertson, foi gravada em 1969 e lançada em 22 de setembro de 1969 no disco The Band. A canção começa com um riff de piano no estilo boogie woogie tocado pelo pianista Richard Manuel e o cantor Rick Danko avisa que uma tempestade está vindo pra Cleveland.

Foi regravada por Albert Lee, entre outros artistas.

Rick Danko cantou e tocou baixo. Levon Helm tocou bateria e fez backing vocals. Garth Hudson tocou orgao Lowrey. Richard Manuel tocou piano e fez backing vocal e Robbie Robertson tocou guitarra.

A letra:

Look Out Cleveland the storm is comin' through
And it's runnin' right up on you
Look out Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill
Bye-bye baby don't cha lie so still

Was Wedn'sday evenin' when first we heard the word
It did not come by train nor bird
T'was when Ben Pike stepped down to say
"This old town's gonna blow away"

Look Out Cleveland the storm is comin' through
And it's runnin' right up on you
Look out Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill
Bye-bye baby don't cha lie so still

Chain lightnin' frightnin' as it may seem
Must not be mistaken for just another dream
Justice of peace don't know his own fate
But he'll go down in the shelter late

Look Out Cleveland the storm is comin' through
And it's runnin' right up on you
Look out Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill
Bye-bye baby don't cha lie so still

Hidin' your money won't do no good (no good)
Build a big wall you know you would if you could yeah
When clouds of warnin' come into view
It'll get the ol' woman right outta her shoe

Look Out Cleveland the storm is comin' through
And it's runnin' right up on you
Look out Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill
Bye-bye baby don't cha lie so still

A versão da The Band:

A versão de Carol Hunter:

A versão de Jackie Greene:

858 – The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard (1969)

Escrita por John Lennon mas creditada à dupla Lennon/McCartney, foi gravada entre 24 e 29 de julho de 1969 e lançada em 26 de setembro no disco Abbey Road.

Foi composta na Índia, inspirada em um sujeito avarento que escondia seu dinheiro pras pessoas não o forçarem a gastar. A irmã de Mustard era Pam, da música seguinte, Polythene Pam.

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

Foi regravada por Booker T and The Mgs, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop
She never stops, she's a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man

A versão dos Beatles:

A versão de Nino Walrus:

A versão de B5G5E5:

857 – David Bowie – Space oddity (1969)

Escrita por David Bowie, foi gravada em 20 de junho de 1969 e lançada em 11 de julho de 1969 em um compacto que tinha Wild eyed bou from freecloud como Lado B. É uma das 500 canções que deram forma ao rock and roll do The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Foi inspirada pelo filme 2001 uma odisséia no esaço, de Stanley Kubrick, de 1968, a canção fala do lançamento ao espaço do Major Tom, um astronauta fictício e foi lançada num período de grande interesse no espaço. A Apollo 11 seria lançada em 5 dias depois que lançaram a música.

Rick Wakeman tocou mellotron, Mick Wayne tocou guitarra, Herbie Flowers tocou baixo, Terry cox tocou bateria, Toni Visconti tocou flauta e David Bowie tocou violão e fez os vocais principais e os backing vocals. Chegou ao número 5 nos charts britânicos. VH1 disse que ela era a número 60 das 100 maiores canções de rock. NME disse que ela era a númeo 26 dos maiores números 1 da história.

Foi regravada pelo Duran Duran e Def Leppard, entre outros muitos artistas.

A letra:

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills
and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown,
engines on
Check ignition
and may God's love be with you

[spoken]
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

This is Ground Control
to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule
if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past
one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead,
there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

Here am I floating
round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.

A versão de David Bowie:

A versão de Mike Masse e Jeff Hall:

A versão do astronauta Chris Hadfield:

856 – The Who – We're not gonna take it (1969)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi lançada em 5 de julho de 1969 em um compacto que tinha I'm free como Lado A. É a última canção do rock opera Tommy.

Roger Daultrey cantou, Pete Townshend fez backing vocals, tocou guitarra elétrica e teclados, John Entwistle tocou baixo e Keith Moon bateria.

A letra:

Welcome to the Camp
I guess you all know why we're here
My name is Tommy
And I became aware this year

If you want to follow me
You've got to play pinball
And put in your earplugs
Put on your eye shades
You know where to put the cork

Hey you getting drunk, so sorry!
I've got you sussed
Hey you smoking Mother Nature!
This is a bust!
Hey hung up old Mr. Normal
Don't try to gain my trust!
'Cause you ain't gonna follow me any of those ways
Although you think you must

We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take it
Gonna break it, gonna shake it
Let's forget it better still

Now you can't hear me
Your ears are truly sealed
You can't speak either
Your mouth is filled
You can't see nothing
And pinball completes the scene
Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to
Your very own machine

We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it

We're not gonna take it
Never did and never will
Don't want no religion
And as far as we can tell
We ain't gonna take you
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take you
We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let's forget you better still

We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let's forget you better still

See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me

See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me

See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me

See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me

Listening to you
I get the music
Gazing at you
I get the heat
Following you
I climb the mountains
I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you
I see the millions
On you
I see the glory
From you
I get opinions
From you
I get the story

Listening to you
I get the music
Gazing at you
I get the heat
Following you
I climb the mountains
I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you
I see the millions
On you
I see the glory
From you
I get opinions
From you
I get the story

Listening to you
I get the music
Gazing at you
I get the heat
Following you
I climb the mountains
I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you
I see the millions
On you
I see the glory

A versão do The Who:

855 – The Beatles – Hey, bulldog! (1969)

Escrita por John Lennon mas creditada à dupla Lennon/McCartney, foi gravada em 11 de fevereiro de 1968 e lançada em 13 de janeiro de 1969 no disco Yellow Submarine. A exemplo de Lady Madonna, é uma das poucas músicas dos Beatles baseadas num riff de piano.

Foi uma das últimas gravações com a dinâmica de equipe dos Beatles. Depois disso já veio o Album Branco onde cada um gravou sua música praticamente. A linha de baixo que Paul criou foi uma das melhores que ele já fez. Também o solo de George Harrison, ele matou logo de cara.

Tanto John quanto Paul gostam muito dessa música.

John cantou, tocou piano, guitarra ritmica e falou. Paul fez backing vocal, tocou baixo, pandeiro, latiu e falou. George Harrison tocou guitarra solo. Ringo tocou bateria e falou.

Foi regravada por Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews, Manfred Mann, Dave Grohl com Jeff Lynne, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Sheepdog, standing in the rain
Bullfrog, doing it again
Some kind of happiness is
Measured out in miles
What makes you think you're
Something special when you smile

Childlike no one understands
Jackknife in your sweaty hands
Some kind of innocence is
Measured out in years
You don't know what it's like
To listen to your fears

You can talk to me
You can talk to me
You can talk to me
If you're lonely, you can talk to me

Big man (yeah) walking in the park
Wigwam frightened of the dark
Some kind of solitude is
Measured out in you
You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue

You can talk to me
You can talk to me
You can talk to me
If you're lonely, you can talk to me

Hey hey

Roar

Hey, bulldog (hey bulldog)

Woof

Hey, bulldog
Hey, bulldog
Hey, bulldog

Hey man

Whats up brother?

Roof

What do ya say

I say, roof

You know any more?

Ah ah (you got it, that's it, you had it)
That's it man, wo ho, that's it, you got it

Woah

Look at me man, I only had ten children

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ha ha ha ha
Quiet, quiet (ok)
Quiet
Hey, bulldog, hey bulldog

A versão dos Beatles:

A versão de David Grohl com Jeff Lynne:

A versão de Miles Kane:

854 – Crosby, Stills and Nash – Lady of the island (1969)

Escrita por Grham Nash, foi gravada em 11 de fevereiro de 1969 e lançada em 1969 no disco Crosby, Stills and Nash. Foi feita pra Joni Mitchell, que Nash estava envolvido na época.

O curioso é que Guinnevere, que já falamos aqui, também foi feita pra Joni Mitchell por David Crosby, que também estava envolvido com ela. Era o tempo do amor livre.

Graham Nash cantou e tocou violão. David Crosby fez backing vocals.

A letra:

Holding you close undisturbed before a fire
The pressure in my chest when you breathe in my ear
We both knew this would happen when you first appeared
My lady of the island

The brownness of your body in the fire glow
Except the places where the sun refused to go
Our bodies were a perfect fit in afterglow we lay
My lady of the island

Letting myself wander through the world inside your eyes
You know I'd like to stay here until every tear runs dry
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
My lady of the island

Wrapped around each other in the peeping sun
Beams of sunshine light the stage the red light's on
I never want to finish what I've just begun with you
My lady of the island

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do

A versão de Crosby, Stills and Nash:

A versão de Ida Vermehren:

A versão de Sanford Markley:

0050 – Badge - Cream (1969)

Compositor: Eric Clapton e George Harrison

• Foi gravada em outubro de 1968, no IBC, em Londres, e foi lançada em 15 de fevereiro de 1969 no disco Goodbye.

• Eric Clapton tocou guitarra e cantou. Jack Bruce tocou baixo. Ginger Baker tocou bateria. George Harrison tocou guitarra base e Felix Pappalardi tocou piano e Mellotron.

• Foi também número 1 na Nova Zelandia, África do Sul e Irlanda.

A letra:

I'm thinking bout the times you drove in my car
I'm thinking that I might have drove you too far
And I'm thinking 'bout the love that you laid on my table

I told you not to wander 'round in the dark
I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park
Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's married to Mabel

Well, I told you that the light goes up and down
Do you notice how the wheels go 'round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down
Yes, before they bring the curtain down

I'm talking 'bout a girl that looks quite like you
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle

A versão do Cream ao vivo em 2005:

A versão de Robben Ford:

A versão de David Stanyer:

852 – The Band – Up on Cripple Creek (1969)

Escrita por Robbie Robertson, foi gravada em 1969 e lançada em 29 de novembro de 1969 no compacto que tinha The night they drove old Dixie down como Lado A. Chegou ao número 25 nos charts pop americanos e número 10 nos charts canadenses. Leon Helm cantou.

Nessa música foi uma das primeiras vezes que o Clavinet Hohner foi tocado com pedal de Wah-Wah. Esse som se tornou famoso em meados dos anos 70, especialmente na música funk.

A canção é um motorista de caminhão que vai ao Lake Charles, Louisiana, para encontrar sua namorada que é de lá. Bessie. Lá ele joga, bebe, escuta música e fica com Bessie. Mas tem que voltar pra esposa, porém quer voltar pra ver Bessie again.

Levon Helm cantou e tocou bateria. Rick Danko tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Garth Hudson tocou o clavinet com pedal wah-ah e orgão. Richard Manuel tocou piano e fez backing vocals. Robbie Robertson tocou guitarra elétrica.

A letra:

When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go
She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show
The odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half
She tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh
Now there's one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see
That's when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk"
Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet
And I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Now there's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold
And this living on the road is getting pretty old
So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in
But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted to go and see my Bessie again

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

A versão da Band:

A versão de Winston Ramble:

A versão de The Band Cover:

851 – Leonard Cohen – Tonight will be fine (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 da carreira de Cohen.

Leonard Cohen cantou e tocou violão clássico. Ron Cornelius tocou violão e guitarra. Bubba Fowler tocou baixo, banjo, violino e violão. Charlie Daniels tocou baixo, violão e violino.

A letra:

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past.
We swore to each other then that our love would surely last.
You kept right on loving, I went on a fast,
Now I am too thin and your love is too vast.
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine,
Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
For a while.

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
The windows are small and the walls almost bare,
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine,
Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
For a while.

Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me,
She's the soft naked lady love meant her to be
And she's moving her body so brave and so free.
If I've got to remember that's a fine memory.
And I know from her eyes
And I know from her smile
That tonight will be fine,
Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
For a while.

A versão de Leonard Cohen:

A versão de Teddy Thompson:

A versão de Shellee Coley e Mason Lankford:

850 – The Who – Pinball wizard (1969)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada em 7 de fevereiro de 1969 e lançada em 7 de março de 1969 em um compacto que tinha Dogs como Lado B. Chegou ao número 4 dos charts ingleses e número 19 nos Estados Unidos.

Foi regravada por Elton John, Rod Stewart, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball!

He stands like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition,
The digit counters fall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball!

He's a pin ball wizard
There has got to be a twist
A pin ball wizard,
S'got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it? I don't know!
What makes him so good?

He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells
Don't see lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never seen him fall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball

I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pin ball crown to him

Even on my favorite table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf dumb and blind kind
Sure plays a mean pin ball!

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