Escrita
por Bob Marley, foi lançada em 1971 no disco Soul Revolution.
A
letra:
Sun
is shining, the weather is sweet Make you want to move your
dancing feet To the rescue, here I am Want you to know ya, can
you understang
When the morning gather
the rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
To the rescue
here I am
Want you to know ya,
Can you, can you, can you
understand
Sun is shining, the
weather is sweet now
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To
the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Here I
stand, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Can you understand me, now
baby
Escrita
por Pete Townshend, foi gravada na primavera de 1971 e lançada em 14
de agosto de 1971 no disco Who's next? Fala sobre a alegria do amor
físico, do poder na natureza e a necessidade de viver o momento.
Roger
Daltrey cantou. Pete Townshend tocou violão e fez backing vocals.
John Entwistel tocou baixo e Keith Moon tocou bateria.
A
letra:
Layin'
on my back In the newly mown grass Rain is coming down But I
know the clouds will pass You bring me tea Say "the babe's
a-sleepin'" Lay down beside me Love ain't for keeping
Black ash from the
foundry Hangs like a hood But the air is perfumed By the
burning firewood The seeds are bursting The spring is
a-seeping Lay down my darling Love ain't for keeping Lay
down beside me Love ain't for keeping
Lay down beside me Love
ain't for keeping Lay down my darling Love ain't for keeping
Escrita
por Jimmy Page e Robert Plant, foi gravada em 1971 em Londres e
lançada em 8 de novembro de 1971 no disco Led Zeppelin IV. A canção
tem 3 seções. Começa com um tempo devagar com instrumentos
acusticos até entrar os instrumentos elétricos. A seção final é
pauleira.
É
a canção número 31 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os
tempos da revista Rolling Stone. Foi criada em Bron-Y-Aur, no País
de Gales. É um hino do rock and roll. E seu tremendo sucesso se deu
nunca tendo sido um compacto. Os fãs tinham que comprar o disco todo
pra ouvi-la.
A
revista Guitar World disse que o solo de Page nessa música é o
número 1 da história. É uma das 500 canções que deram forma ao
rock and roll, na Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ganhou um Grammy em
2003.
A
letra:
There's
a lady who's sure All that glitters is gold And she's buying a
stairway to Heaven When she gets there she knows If the stores
are all closed With a word she can get what she came for Oh oh
oh oh and she's buying a stairway to Heaven
There's a sign on the
wall But she wants to be sure 'Cause you know sometimes words
have two meanings In a tree by the brook There's a songbird who
sings Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving
Ooh, it makes me
wonder Ooh, it makes me wonder
There's a feeling I
get When I look to the west And my spirit is crying for
leaving In my thoughts I have seen Rings of smoke through the
trees And the voices of those who standing looking
Ooh, it makes me
wonder Ooh, it really makes me wonder
And it's whispered that
soon, If we all call the tune Then the piper will lead us to
reason And a new day will dawn For those who stand long And
the forests will echo with laughter
If there's a bustle in
your hedgerow Don't be alarmed now It's just a spring clean for
the May queen Yes, there are two paths you can go by But in the
long run There's still time to change the road you're on And it
makes me wonder
Your head is humming
and it won't go In case you don't know The piper's calling you
to join him Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow? And did you
know Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?
And as we wind on down
the road Our shadows taller than our soul There walks a lady we
all know Who shines white light and wants to show How
everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The
tune will come to you at last When all are one and one is all To
be a rock and not to roll And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
A versão do Led
Zeppelin:
A versão do Heart com
Jason Bonham, filho de John Bonham:
Escrita
por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em março de 1970 e
lançada em 23 de abril de 1971 no disco Sticky fingers.
A
canção tem slide guitar com gargalo de garrafa, tocado por Mick
Taylor. Guitarra base foi tocada por Mick Jagger. Richards fez
backing vocals mas não tocou guitarra na gravação.
Mick
Jagger cantou e tocou guitarra base. Keith Richards fez backing
vocals. Mick Taylor tocou guitarra solo e slide guitar. Bill Wyman
tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Nicky Hopkins tocou piano.
A
letra:
Did
you ever wake up to find A day that broke up your mind Destroyed
your notion of circular time
It's just that demon
life has got you in its sway It's just that demon life has got you
in its sway
Ain't flinging tears
out on the dusty ground For all my friends out on the burial
ground Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down
It's just that demon
life has got me in its sway It's just that demon life has got me
in its sway
There must be ways to
find out Love is the way they say is really strutting out
Hey, hey, hey now One
day I woke up to find Right in the bed next to mine Someone
that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah
It's just that demon
life has got me in its sway It's just that demon life has got me
in its sway
It's just that demon
life has got me in its sway It's just that demon life has got me
Escrita
por Paul e Linda McCartney, foi gravada em 1 de março de 1971 e
lançada em 17 de maio de 1971 no disco Ram. Foi escrita durante o
tempo em que estavam na fazenda deles em Mull of Kintyre. Falava da
sorte dele de ter Linda.
Paul
cantou, tocou guitarra, baixo, piano e percussão. Linda fez backing
vocals. David Spinozza e Hugh McCracken tocaram guitarra. Denny
Seiwell tocou bateria e percussão. Paul Beaver e Phillip Davis
tocaram sinterizadores. Jim Guercio fez backing vocals.
A
letra:
I
guess you never knew, dear boy, what you had found, I guess you
never knew, dear boy, that she was just the cutest thing around. I
guess you never knew what you had found, dear boy.
I guess you never saw,
dear boy that love was there, And maybe when you look too hard,
dear boy, you never do become aware. I guess you never did become
aware, dear boy.
When I stepped in, my
heart was down and out, But her love came through and brought me
round, Got me up and about.
I hope you never know,
dear boy, how much you missed, And even when you fall in love,
dear boy, It won't be half as good as this
I hope you never know
how much you missed, Dear boy, how much you missed, dear boy
Escrita
por John Lennon, foi gravada entre maio e julho de 1971 e lançada em
9 de setembro de 1971 no disco Imagine.
John
cantou e tocou guitarra. George Harrison tocou slide guitar. Nicky
Hopkins tocou Tack piano. Ted Turner e Rod Linton tocaram violao.
John Tout tocou violão. Klaus Voorman e Steve Brendell tocaram
baixo. Alan White tocou bateria.
A
letra:
You can
shine your shoes and wear a suit You can comb your hair and look
quite cute You can hide your face behind a smile One thing you
can't hide Is when you're crippled inside You can wear a mask
and paint your face You can call yourself the human race You
can wear a collar and a tie One thing you can't hide Is when
you're crippled inside Well now, you know that your cat Has
nine lives, nine lives to itself But you only got one And a
dog's life ain't fun Mamma take a look outside You can go to
church and sing a hymn
You can live a lie
until you die One thing you can't hide Is when you're crippled
inside Take it [Incomprehensible] Well now, you know that your
cat Has nine lives, nine lives to itself But you only got
one And a dog's life ain't fun Mamma take a look outside You
can go to church and sing a hymn Judge me by the color of my
skin You can live a lie until you die One thing you can't
hide Is when you're crippled inside One thing you can't hide Is
when you're crippled inside One thing you can't hide Is when
you're crippled inside
Escrita
por Leonard Cohen, foi gravada em setembro de 1970 e lançada no
disco Songs of Love and Hate, em 19 de março de 1971. Foi gravada
anteriormente por Judy Collins, em 1966. Cohen disse que gravou-a e
nunca mais iria cantá-la.
A
letra:
Four
o'clock in the afternoon And I didn't feel like very much. I
said to myself, "Where are you golden boy, Where is your
famous golden touch?" I thought you knew where All of
the elephants lie down, I thought you were the crown prince Of
all the wheels in Ivory Town.
Just take a look at
your body now, There's nothing much to save And a bitter
voice in the mirror cries, "Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Now if you can manage
to get Your trembling fingers to behave, Why don't you try
unwrapping A stainless steel razor blade?
That's right, it's come
to this, Yes it's come to this, And wasn't it a long way
down, Wasn't it a strange way down?
There's no hot water
And the cold is running thin. Well, what do you expect from
The kind of places you've been living in?
Don't drink from that
cup, It's all caked and cracked along the rim. That's not the
electric light, my friend, That is your vision growing dim.
Cover up your face with
soap, there, Now you're Santa Claus. And you've got a gift
for anyone Who will give you his applause.
I thought you were a
racing man, Ah, but you couldn't take the pace. That's a
funeral in the mirror And it's stopping at your face.
That's right, it's come
to this, Yes it's come to this, And wasn't it a long way
down, Ah wasn't it a strange way down?
Once there was a path
And a girl with chestnut hair, And you passed the summers
Picking all of the berries that grew there There were times
she was a woman, Oh, there were times she was just a child, And
you held her in the shadows Where the raspberries grow wild.
And you climbed the
twilight mountains And you sang about the view, And
everywhere that you wandered Love seemed to go along with you.
That's a hard one to remember, Yes it makes you clench your
fist.
And then the veins
stand out like highways, All along your wrist. And yes it's
come to this, It's come to this, And wasn't it a long way
down, Wasn't it a strange way down?
You can still find a
job, Go out and talk to a friend. On the back of every
magazine There are those coupons you can send. Why don't you
join the Rosicrucians, They can give you back your hope, You
can find your love with diagrams On a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all
your coupons Except the one that seems To be written on your
wrist Along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes
forward, That's a razor in his mit And he puts on his dark
glasses And he shows you where to hit And then the cameras
pan, The stand in stunt man, Dress rehearsal rag, It's
just the dress rehearsal rag, You know this dress rehearsal rag,
It's just a dress rehearsal rag.
Escrita
por Janis Joplin, foi gravada em Los Angeles, no Sunset Sound
Recorders, entre setembro e outubro de 1970 e lançada no disco
Pearl, lançado após a morte dela. É a música que abre o disco.
A
letra:
You
say that it's over baby, Lord, You say that it's over now, But
still you hang around me, come on, Won't you move over.
You
know that I need a man, honey Lord, You know that I need a
man, But when I ask you to you just tell me That maybe you can.
Please dontcha do it to me babe, no! Please dontcha do it
to me baby, Either take this love I offer Or honey let me be.
I ain't quite a ready for walking, no no no no, I ain't
quite a ready for walking, And whatcha gonna do with your
life, Life all just dangling ?
Oh yeah, make up your mind,
honey, You're playing with me, hey hey hey, Make up your mind,
darling, You're playing with me, come on now! Now either be my
loving man, I said-a let me honey, let me be, yeah!
You
say that it's over, baby, no, You say that it's over now, But
still you hang around me, come on Won't you move over.
You
know that I need a man, honey, I told you so. You know that I need
a man, But when I ask you to you just tell me That maybe you
can.
Hey! Please dontcha do it to me, babe, no! Please
dontcha do it to me baby, Either take this love I offer, Honey
let me be.
I said won't you, won't you let me be ? Honey,
you're teasing me. Yeah, you're playing with my heart, dear, I
believe you're toying with my affections, honey.
I can't take
it no more baby, And furthermore, I don't intend to. I'm just
tired of hanging from the end of a string, honey, You expect me to
fight like a goddamned mule. Wah, wah, wah, wah, honey...
Escrita
por Van Morrison, foi gravada na primavera e verão de 1971 e lançada
no disco Tupelo Honey em 15 de outubro de 1971. Foi escrita em
Woodstock, no estado da Nova York.
É
um tributo à sua vida na cidade de Woodstock. Mostra uma
sensibilidade em torno das crianças e familia, Janet Planet foi a
inspiração pra gravação.
Van
Morrison tocou guitarra, gaita, cantou e fez backing vocals. Ronnie
Montrose tocou guitarra e violão, bandolim e fez backing vocals.
Bill Church tocou baixo. Connie Kay tocou bateria. Jack Schroer tocou
sax tenor, alto e baritono. Mark Jordan tocou piano e piano elétrico.
Gary Mallaber tocou percussao e vibrafone. John McFee tocou pedal
steel guitar. Bruce Royston tocou flauta, Luis Gasca tocou trompete,
Boots Houston tocou flauta e fez backing vocals e Ellen Schroer e
Janet Planet fizeram backing vocal.
A
letra:
Oh
don't it get you Get you when you're through Feel the breezes
blowing All around your coat Oh don't it get you When you
gotta roam Hear the children singing My Daddy's coming home
Going down to old
Woodstock Feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Going down to give my baby a squeeze
Going down to old
Woodstock Feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Way behind the shady trees
Here I come a
swaggering Way on over the ridge See the water flowing Way
beneath the bridge And my woman's waiting By the kitchen
door I'm driving along In my old beat up car
Going down to old
Woodstock Feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Give my child a squeeze
Going down to old
Woodstock To feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Way behind the shady trees
Listen, oh don't it get
you Get you in your throat Feel the breezes blowing All
around your coat
Lord don't it get
you When you're bound to roam Hear your children sing My
Daddy's coming home
Going down to old
Woodstock To feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Give my child a squeeze
Going down to old
Woodstock To feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Way behind the shady trees Going down to old
Woodstock To feel the cool night breeze Going down to old
Woodstock Give my child a squeeze Going down to old
Woodstock To feel the cool night breezes Old Woodstock
Escrita
por Mick Jagger, Keith Richards e Marianne Faithfull, foi gravada
inicialmente por Marianne em 1968 e lançada em 1969. A versão
escolhida no entanto foi a dos próprios Stones, lançada no disco
Sticky Fingers, de 1971.
Conta
com Mick Jagger nos vocais, Keith Richards no violão e backing
vocals, Cooder na guitarra, Nitzsche no piano, Bill Wyman no baixo e
Charlie Watts na bateria.
A
letra:
Here
I lie in my hospital bed Tell me, sister Morphine, when are you
coming round again? Oh, I don't think I can wait that long Oh,
you see that I'm not that strong
The scream of the
ambulance is sounding in my ears Tell me, sister Morphine, how
long have I been lying here? What am I doing in this place? Why
does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl
across the floor Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying
to score
Well it just goes to
show Things are not what they seem Please, sister Morphine,
turn my nightmares into dreams Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Sweet cousin Cocaine,
lay your cool cool hand on my head Ah, come on, sister Morphine,
you better make up my bed 'Cause you know and I know in the
morning I'll be dead Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you
can watch all The clean white sheets stained red
Escrita
por Paul McCartney, foi gravada em 6 de novembro de 1970 e lançada
em 17 de maio de 1971 no disco Ram. Quando lançada em compacto, em 2
de agosto de 1971, chegou ao número nos charts pop americanos, sendo
a primeira canção de Paul pós os Beatles a chegar ao número 1 nos
Estados Unidos. Foi o primeiro disco de ouro de Paul como artista
solo. Chegou tambem ao numero 1 no Canada e Nova Zelandia, número 3
no Mexico e número 5 na Australia.
Fala
sobre um tio de Paul e sobre o Almirante William Halsey. Sobre o tio,
Paul disse que se lembrava muito bem dele e sobre o almirante, que
representava uma geração anterior e que ele queria homenagear pois
sempre ignorava o que diziam os mais velhos e agora queria se
desculpar.
Paul
ganhou um premio Grammy de melhor arranjo acompanhando vocalistas
pela canção. Recebeu disco de ouro.
Paul
cantou, tocou guitarra, violão, piano, baixo e xilofone. Linda fez
backing vocals. Hugh McCracken toou violão e guitarra. Denny Seiwell
tocou bateria. Paul beaver tocou sintetizador. David Nadien e Aaron
Rosand tocaram violino. Marvin Stamm, Mel Davis, Ray Crisara e Snooky
Young tocaram metais.
A
letra:
We're
so sorry, Uncle Albert We're so sorry if we caused you any
pain We're so sorry, Uncle Albert But there's no one left at
home And I believe I'm gonna rain
We're so sorry but we
haven't heard a thing all day We're so sorry, Uncle Albert But
if anything should happen we'll be sure to give a ring
We're so sorry, Uncle
Albert But we haven't done a bloody thing all day We're so
sorry, Uncle Albert But the kettle's on the boil and we're so
easily called away
Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky
Admiral Halsey notified
me He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea I had
another look and I had a cup of tea and butter pie (butter pie) The
butter wouldn't melt so I put it in the pie
Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky
Live a little, be a
gypsy, get around (get around) Get your feet up off the
ground Live a little, get around Live a little, be a gypsy, get
around (get around) Get your feet up off the ground Live a
little, get around
Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky Hands across the water
(water) Heads across the sky
Escrita
por John Lennon, foi gravada em maio e julho de 1971 e lançada em 9
de setembro de 1971 no disco Imagine. Trata-se de uma canção
raivosa direcionada à Paul McCartney. John escreveu essa música em
resposta à piadinhas que Paul soltou pra ele no disco Ram. A canção
inclui um slide guitar tocado por George Harrison.
John
escreveu essa canção também quando Paul ganhou na justiça pra
dissolver os Beatles como uma entidade legal.
A
canção cita o rumor que existia sobre a morte de Paul. Fala que o
Sgt. Pepper pegou Paul de surpresa. Fala que a única coisa que Paul
fez Yesterdar e que desde que ele deixou of Beatles ele só fez
Another day.
John
Lennon cantou e tocou guitarra. George Harrison toou slide guitar.
Nicky Hopkins tocou piano eletrio Wurlitzer. John Tout tocou piano.
Ted Turner, Rod Linton e Andy Davis tocaram violão. Klaus Voorman
tocou baixo. Alan White tocou bateria e The Flux Fiddlers tocaram as
cordas.
A
letra:
So
Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise You better see right through that
mother's eyes Those freaks was right when they said you was
dead The one mistake you made was in your head
How do you sleep? How
do you sleep at night?
You live with straights
who tell you, you was king Jump when your momma tell you
anything The only thing you done was yesterday And since you've
gone you're just another day
How do you sleep? How
do you sleep at night?
How do you sleep? How
do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last
a year or two But pretty soon they'll see what you can do The
sound you make is muzak to my ears You must have learned something
in all those years
Escrita
por Leonard Cohen, foi lançada no seu terceiro disco, Songs of Love
and Hate, em 1971.
A
letra é baseada em um poema que Cohen havia escrito anteriormente. O
estilo do violão é clássico de muitas músicas do compositor.
A
letra:
Well
I stepped into an avalanche It covered up my soul When I am not
this hunchback that you see I sleep beneath the golden hill You
who wish to conquer pain You must learn, learn to serve me well
You strike my side by
accident As you go down for your gold The cripple here that you
clothe and feed Is neither starved nor cold He does not ask for
your company Not at the centre, the centre of the world
When I am on a
pedestal You did not raise me there Your laws do not compel
me To kneel grotesque and bare I myself am the pedestal For
this ugly hump at which you stare
You who wish to conquer
pain You must learn what makes me kind The crumbs of love that
you offer me They're the crumbs I've left behind Your pain is
no credential here It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound
I have begun to long
for you I who have no greed I have begun to ask for you I
who have no need You say you've gone away from me But I can
feel you when you breathe
Do not dress in those
rags for me I know you are not poor And don't love me quite so
fiercely now When you know that you are not sure It is your
turn, beloved It is your flesh that I wear
Escrita
por Bert Berns e Jerry Ragovoy, foi gravada inicialmente por Garnet
Mimms and The Enchanters em 1963, mas a nossa versão é a de Janis
Joplin de 1971, lançada no disco Pearl.
Foi
regravada por Joss Stone, entre outros artistas.
A
letra:
Cry
baby, cry baby, cry baby, Honey, welcome back home.
I know she told
you, Honey I know she told you that she loved you Much more
than I did, But all I know is that she left you, And you swear
that you just don't know why, But you know, honey I'll
always, I'll always be around if you ever want me Come on and
cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, Oh honey, welcome back home.
Don't you know,
honey, Ain't nobody ever gonna love you The way I try to
do? Who'll take all your pain, Honey, your heartache, too? And
if you need me, you know That I'll always be around if you ever
want me Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, Oh
daddy, like you always seem to do.
And when you walk
around the world, babe, You said you'd try to look for the end of
the road, You might find out later that the road'll end in
Detroit, Honey, the road'll even end in Kathmandu. You can go
all around the world Trying to find something to do with your
life, baby, When you only gotta do one thing well, You only
gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe. You got a
woman waiting for you there, All you ever gotta do is be a good
man one time to one woman And that'll be the end of the road,
babe, I know you got more tears to share, babe, So come on,
come on, come on, come on, come on, And cry, cry baby, cry baby,
cry baby.
And if you ever feel a
little lonely, dear, I want you to come on, come on to your mama
now, And if you ever want a little love of a woman Come on and
baby baby baby babe babe baby now Cry baby yeah.
Escrita
por Van Morrison, foi gravada na primavera de 1971 e lançada em
outubro de 1971 no disco Tupelo honey. Morrison disse que escreveu
essa música pra Janis Joplin.
Van
Morrison tocou violão e cantou. Ronnie Montrose tocou guitarra e
bandolim. Bill Church tocou baixo. Luis Gasca tocou trompete. Mark
Jordan tocou piano. Gary Mallaber tocou percussão. John McFee tocou
pedal steel guitar. Rick Sclosser tocou bateria. Elle Schroer fez
backing vocals e Jack Schroer tocou sa alto.
A
letra:
Oh,
she give me moonshine whiskey Oh, she give me southern love Deep
in the heart of Texas There beneath the stars above Oh, she
give me Southern Comfort Oh, she give me moonshine love Deep in
the heart of Texas There beneath the stars above
Here I am riding on a
train Just about thunderballs down the line Just can't wait any
longer See that little darling of mine See that little darling
of mine
She's my Texas
sweetheart Part from Arkansas They were dancing Across the
floor And a band was playing People were swayin', to and
fro Streamline promenade baby Streamline promenade
And I said, wait a
minute Wait a minute, wait a minute I'm gonna take a plane Come
with me to tonight
Gonna put on my hot
pants And promenade, promenade down funky Broadway 'Til the
cows come home La la la da La la la da Oh streamline
promenade Promenade streamline Streamline promenade Promenade,
promenade, promenade streamline Think I'm gonna promenade all
night
Oh, she give me
moonshine whiskey Oh, she give me southern love Deep in the
heart of Texas There beneath the stars above Oh, she give me
Southern Comfort Oh, she give me moonshine love Deep in the
heart of Texas There beneath the stars above
Listen, here we
are Thinking about time When I resist here and now And I
just want to lay my feet On a river bed instead Can't wait any
longer For the sign I want to get down some solid time, in the
water Watch the fish in the water Bubbles, watch the bubbles
come up in the water Promenade streamline in the water Streamline
promenade, get funky Promenade streamline, funky as you want to be
La da da La da
da Streamline promenade, oh baby Well, I feel alright
tonight Streamline promenade
Oh, she give me
moonshine whiskey Oh, she give me southern love Oh, she give me
moonshine whiskey Oh, she give me southern love
She give me southern
love Southern love Southern love Child, feel southern
love Fell southern love Southern love Child, feel southern
love (southern love) Southern love, southern love Child, feel
southern love (southern love) Oh baby (Southern love) (Southern
love) Oh baby (Southern love) (Southern love) (Southern
love) (Southern love) (Southern love) (Southern
love) (Southern love) (Southern love) (Southern
love) (Southern love) (Southern love) (Southern
love) (Southern love) Oh she gave me moonshine whiskey
