Artista: Eric Clapton
Album: Just One Night (1980)
Canzone: Worried Life Blues
Worried Life Blues
by Maceo Merriweather
Oh lordie lord
Oh lordie lord
It hurts me so bad for us to part
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
So many nights since you’ve been gone
I’ve had to worry and grieve my life alone
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
So many days since you went away
I’ve had to worry night and day
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Yoo’re on my mind every place I go
How much I love you nobody knows
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
So that’s my story
This is all I got to say to you
Goodbye baby I don’t care what you do
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Oh lordie lord
Oh lordie lord
It hurts me so bad for us to part
But someday baby
I ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Freddie King version
I don’t care, alone you go
I don’t care, alone you stay
But good kind of treatment
I’m bringing you home someday
Well, someday, baby
You ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Now you keep on bendin’
If the dice don’t pay
Can’t you see, little girl
You’re living too fast?
But someday, baby
You ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Are you tellin’ everybody
In the neighborhood
‘Cause you don’t love me, baby
You didn’t mean me no good
Yes, but someday, baby
You ain’t gonna worry my life anymore
Alright!
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Eric Clapton – Just one night (1980)
Big Maceo Merriweather (1941)
Freddie King
Robben Ford
Worried Life Blues è stato il primo successo di Maceo Merriweather (1941) ed è una delle canzoni blues più famose e registrata di tutti i tempi. La canzone si basa su “Someday Baby Blues” registrata da Sleepy John Estes nel 1935. La canzone di Estes è un country blues mentre quella di Maceo è un prototipo di Chicago Blues. In seguito vennero incise molte cover di vari artisti con arrangiamenti e testo spesso differenti. (Wikipedia)