How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? (New Orleans '06)
På http://www.brucespringsteen.net/site.html kan man nu lyssna på låten How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? (New Orleans '06) som debuterade på de nyligen avslutade rehearsalsspelningarna i Asbury Park.
Den streamade filen är plockad direkt från soundboarden från en av dessa spelningar.
En grym låt som givetvis borde varit med på The Seeger Sessions.
Bruce menar allvar, sjunger bättre än på mycket länge och återigen....vilket fantastiskt blås!
Så här skriver Bruce själv om låten:
This song was written by Blind Alfred Reed and recorded a month after the crash of '29 that heralded the Great Depression. I first heard it on Ry Cooder's self - titled debut album (1970). To his arrangement we owe a debt. I kept the "doctor" first verse by Reed then wrote three others with a mind to the great trials the people of New Orleans have faced this year.
Here are the full lyrics:
Well, the doctor comes 'round here with his face all bright
And he says "in a little while you'll be alright"
All he gives is a humbug pill, a dose of dope and a great big bill
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
He says "me and my old school pals had some might high times down here
And what happened to you poor black folks, well it just ain't fair"
He took a look around gave a little pep talk, said "I'm with you" then he took a little walk
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
There's bodies floatin' on Canal and the levees gone to Hell
Martha, get me my sixteen gauge and some dry shells
Them who's got got out of town
And them who ain't got left to drown
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
I got family scattered from Texas all the way to Baltimore
And I ain't got no home in this world no more
Gonna be a judgment that's a fact, a righteous train rollin' down this track
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
- Bruce Springsteen, April 27, 2006
Lyssna och njut, gott folk!
Den streamade filen är plockad direkt från soundboarden från en av dessa spelningar.
En grym låt som givetvis borde varit med på The Seeger Sessions.
Bruce menar allvar, sjunger bättre än på mycket länge och återigen....vilket fantastiskt blås!
Så här skriver Bruce själv om låten:
This song was written by Blind Alfred Reed and recorded a month after the crash of '29 that heralded the Great Depression. I first heard it on Ry Cooder's self - titled debut album (1970). To his arrangement we owe a debt. I kept the "doctor" first verse by Reed then wrote three others with a mind to the great trials the people of New Orleans have faced this year.
Here are the full lyrics:
Well, the doctor comes 'round here with his face all bright
And he says "in a little while you'll be alright"
All he gives is a humbug pill, a dose of dope and a great big bill
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
He says "me and my old school pals had some might high times down here
And what happened to you poor black folks, well it just ain't fair"
He took a look around gave a little pep talk, said "I'm with you" then he took a little walk
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
There's bodies floatin' on Canal and the levees gone to Hell
Martha, get me my sixteen gauge and some dry shells
Them who's got got out of town
And them who ain't got left to drown
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
I got family scattered from Texas all the way to Baltimore
And I ain't got no home in this world no more
Gonna be a judgment that's a fact, a righteous train rollin' down this track
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
- Bruce Springsteen, April 27, 2006
Lyssna och njut, gott folk!
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