Showing posts with label Jo-El Sonnier. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

ATF: Accordion to...

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.



Tear-Stained Letter
Jo-El Sonnier
It was three in the mornin’
When she took me apart
She wrecked the furniture
She wrecked my heart
She danced on my head
Like Arthur Murray
The scars ain’t never goin’
To mend in a hurry

Just when I thought
I could learn to forget her
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Well my head was beatin’
Like a song by the Clash
It was writin’ checks
That my body couldn’t cash
I got to my feet
I was reelin’ and dizzy
I went for the phone
But the line was busy
Just when I thought that
Things would get better
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Now I like coffee
And I like tea
But I just don’t like
This fiddle-di-gee
It makes me nervous
It gives me the hives
Waitin’ for a kiss
From a bunch of fives
Just when I thought
I could learn to forget her
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh oh oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh oh oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter



Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That
Robert Randolph and The Family Band
Whether it's
Rock and roll
Or old soul
It don't matter
Disco
Calypso
It don't matter
Suit and tie
Or tie-dye
It don't matter
Snakeskins
Or Timberlands
It don't matter
Tight fade
Or long braid
It don't matter
Red head
Or brunette
It don't matter
Breakdance
Slamdance
It don't matter
Do the jerk
Until it hurts

I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that

East coast
Or west coast
It don't matter
Down south
Or up north
It don't matter
Hollywood
Or in the hood
It don't matter
Either way
It's all good
It don't matter
Block party
Frat party
It don't matter
Backyard
Or boulevard
It don't matter
Red
Yellow
Black
Or white
It don't matter
We all
Gettin' down tonight

I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it
Shake it

I don't know
But I've been told
When the music gets down
In your soul
It makes you want to
Lose control
And there

Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
Hollywood
Or in the hood
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that
Suit and tie
Or tie-dye
I'm tellin' you
Ain't nothin' wrong with that

It don't matter

It don't matter

Let it go

It don't matter

Let it go

It don't matter

Let it go

It don't matter

Let it go

It don’t matter

Let it go

It don’t matter

Let it go

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Richard Thompson's Tear-Stained Letter

Yeah, I know that I said something about the Weird Al battles beginning again today, but it came to me that posting this song now would be a good idea. For it was covered by [Jo-El Sonnier] a few years back, and this is the kind of music that might be included in a [Treme] episode.

No, it is not a traditional New Orleans jazz tune. In fact, I’m not really sure what musical genre it belongs to. For even Sonnier’s cover sounds just like Thompson’s original version, and Thompson is a [Scot] in every sense of the word. Anyway, I just know that I like it a lot, and I hope you will, too.


Link: [On YouTube]

Tear-Stained Letter
Richard Thompson

It was three in the mornin’
When she took me apart
She wrecked the furniture
She wrecked my heart
She danced on my head
Like Arthur Murray
The scars ain’t never goin’
To mend in a hurry

Just when I thought
I could learn to forget her
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Well my head was beatin’
Like a song by the Clash
It was writin’ checks
That my body couldn’t cash
Got to my feet
I was reelin’ and dizzy
I went for the phone
But the line was busy
Just when I thought that
Things would get better
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Well I like coffee
And I like tea
But I just don’t like
This fiddle-di-gee
It makes me nervous
It gives me the hives
Waitin’ for a kiss
From a bunch of fives
Just when I think
I could learn to forget her
Right through the door
Come a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter
Oh
Oh
Oh
Love
Love
Cry cry
If it makes you feel better
Set it all down
In a tear-stained letter

Lyrics From: [Beesweb]

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