This weekly series
will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby
little hands on (so to speak). Now, each
one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit
only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered. For I just cannot bring myself to rate some
higher than others. So, this will not be
a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t
matter. Besides, with no countdown, this
could go on forever and ever! Oh, and
despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can
be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to
make. I am, after all, quite magnanimous
by nature.
Link: [The Rolling Stones]
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones
Oooh
A storm is
threatenin’
My very life today
If I don't
Get some shelter
Ooh yeah
I'm gonna fade away
War
Children
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
War
Children
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
Hey
Yeah
Oooh
See the fire is
sweepin'
At our streets
today
Burnin' like a red
coal carpet
A mad bull’s
Lost its way
War
Children
Yeah
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
War
Children
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
Hey yeah
Yeah
Rape
Murder
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
Rape
Murder
Yeah
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
Rape
Murder
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Mmmm
A storm is
threatening
My very life today
Gimme
Gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade
away
War
Children
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
It's just a shot
away
I tell you
Love
Sister
It's just a kiss
away
It's just a kiss
away
It's just a kiss
away
It's just a kiss
away
It's just a kiss
away
Kiss away
Kiss away
Yeah
Link: [Bob Seger]
Against The Wind
Bob Seger
Seems like
yesterday
But it was long ago
Janey was lovely
She was the queen
of my nights
There in darkness
With the radio
Playin’ low
And the secrets
that we shared
The mountains that
we moved
Caught like a
wildfire out of control
“Til there was
nothin’ left to burn
And nothin’ left to
prove
And I remember what
she said to me
How she swore that
it never would end
I remember how she
held me oh so tight
Wish I didn't know
now
What I didn't know
then
Against the wind
We were runnin’
against the wind
We were young and
strong
But just runnin’
Against the wind
And the years
rolled slowly past
And I found myself
alone
Surrounded by
strangers I thought were my friends
Found myself
further
And further from my
home
And I
Guess I lost my way
There were oh so many
roads
I was livin’ to run
And runnin’ to live
Never worried about
payin’
Or even how much I
owe
Movin' eight miles
a minute
And for months at a
time
Breakin’ all of the
rules that I could bend
I began to find
myself searchin’
Searchin’ for
shelter
Again and again
Against the wind
Little somethin’
against the wind
I found myself
seekin’ shelter
Against the wind
Well those drifter’s
days are past me now
I've got so much
more to think about
Deadlines
And commitments
What to leave in
What to leave out
Against the wind
I'm still runnin’
against the wind
I'm older now
But still runnin’
Against the wind
Well I'm older now
But still runnin’
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
I’m still runnin’
Against the wind
I’m still runnin’ against
the wind
Against the wind
Watch the young man
runnin’
Against the wind
Watch the young man
run
Against the wind
Watch the young man
runnin’
Against the wind
I’ve been runnin’ against
the wind
Against the wind
Lt the cowboys ride
Against the wind…
Lyrics From:
[elyrics.net]
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Good morning, and thanks for the blast from the past. Again! All greats, but now thanks to reading through the very last one, I am popping over to youtube so against the wind can play for a bit!
ReplyDeleteAh the Stones, proper music at last.
ReplyDeleteAhhh I'm having musical flashbacks. Thanks for the stroll through my teens and 20s. :)
ReplyDeletei do like 'against the wind'. :)
ReplyDeletelaughed at your comment about driving cattle in texas on horseback. :)
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! It is too bad that Bob Seger is not a Brit so that you could appreciate his music more.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Julie!!! Yeah, I still get goosebumples when Merry Clayton starts really letting it rip on Gimme Shelter.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear TWG!!! Alas, I suppose I have always been a much better cattleman than a cowboy in a traditional sense, but you'd never hear me admit it with a flock of honky-tonk angels around (back in the day, of course).
ReplyDeleteAgainst the wind = now there is a classic song - excellent
ReplyDeleteWill you hate me if I tell you I never liked the Rolling Stones? Didn't like them as a kid or an adult. It seems to me you are either a Stones or a Beatles fan...put me in the Beatles camp.
ReplyDeleteStill, live and let live, I always say...I will let YOU enjoy them.
Thanks for stopping by, my dear Alan!!! It is, indeed!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Kay!!! Now, I am a much bigger Beatles fan, but the Stones have had several songs that I truly love.
ReplyDeleteBob Seger, a old time favorite of mine
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! I wish you would have a little talk with Adullamite.
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