Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Woke Up This Morning, artist - Alabama 3.
Date of issue: 06.04.2008
Song language: English
Woke Up This Morning |
Woke Up This Morning 5:14 Trk 3 |
Vocals: The Very Rev. Dr. D. Wayne Love (Jake Black) |
First Minister of The Church of Presleyterian The Divine UK. |
Larry Love (Robert Spragg) vocals |
Band: Mountain of Love (Piers Marsh) harmonica & vocal |
Sir Real Congaman (Simon Edwards) percussion & acoustic gtr. |
The Spirit (Orlando Harrison) keybrds |
L.B. |
Dope (Johnny Delafons) drums |
Geffen Records GEFD #25 142 (1998) |
Spoken intro: |
And after three days of drinkin' with Larry Love |
I just get an inklin' to go on home |
So, I’m walkin' down Coldharbour Lane |
Head hung low, three or four in the mornin' |
The suns comin' up and the birds are out singing |
I let myself into my pad |
Wind myself up that spiral staircase |
An' stretch out nice on the chesterfield |
Pithecanthropus Erectus already on the CD player |
And I just push that remote button to sublimity |
And listen to the sweet sculptural rhythms of Charles Mingus |
And J.R. Monterose and Jackie Mclean |
Duet on those saxophones |
And the sound makes it’s way outta the window |
Minglin' with the traffic noises outside, you know and |
All of a sudden I’m overcome by a feelin' of brief mortality |
'Cause I’m gettin' on in the world |
Comin' up on forty-one years |
Forty-one stoney gray steps towards the grave |
You know the box, awaits it’s grissly load |
Now, I’m gonna be food for worms |
And just like Charles Mingus wrote |
That beautiful piece-a music, 'Epitaph for Eric Dolphy' |
I say, so long Eric, so long, John Coltrane |
And Charles Mingus, so long, Duke Ellington |
And Lester Young, so long, Billie Holliday |
And Ella Fitzgerald, so long, Jimmy Reed |
So long, Muddy Waters, and so, long Howlin' Wolf |
(Wo-wo-woke up this mornin') |
Woke up this mornin' |
Got yourself a gun |
Mama always said you’d be the chosen one |
She said, 'You're one in a million |
You got to burn to shine' |
That you were born under a bad sign |
With a blue moon in your eyes (yeah) |
Woke up this mornin' |
And-a all that love had gone |
Your papa never told you |
About right and wrong |
But you’re, but you’re looking good, baby |
I believe you’re a-feelin' fine |
Shame about it, born under a bad sign |
With a blue moon in your eyes |
So, sing it now |
(Woke up this mornin') oh yeah, oh yeah |
(Woke up this mornin') oh yeah, oh yeah |
(Woke up this mornin') oh yeah, oh yeah |
(Woke up this mornin') oh yeah, oh yeah |
I see ya woke up this mornin' |
The world turned upside down |
Lordy, but a-things ain’t been the same |
Since the blues walked in-a town |
But ya, but ya, one in a million |
'Cause you got that shotgun shine |
Shame about it, born under a bad sign |
With a blue moon in your eyes |
So, sing it now |
(Woke up this mornin') |
You got a blue moon |
(Got a blue moon in your eyes) |
(I gotta free your eyes) |
(Woke up this mornin') |
So sad, god-damned |
A god-damned shame about it |
(Woke up this mornin') |
You got a blue moon |
(I've gotta free your eyes) |
(Got a blue moon in your eyes) yeah |
(Woke up this mornin') oh yeah, oh yeah |
(I'm not dreaming) |
Oh, yeah! |
(Scared, yeah-yeah) |
Uuh! |
(Too much, too much, too much) |
Oh, yeah! |
(Your pain, your pain, you pain) |
Of your pain |
(Woo-hoo-hoo, low) |
'Mister D. Wayne Love' |
When you woke up this morning |
Everything was gone |
By half past ten your head was going |
Ding-dong ringin' like a bell |
From your head down to your toes |
Like some voice tryin' to tell you |
There’s somethin' you should know |
Last night you was flyin' but today you’re so low |
Ain’t it times like these |
Makes you wonder (go back) if you’ll ever know |
The meaning of things as they appear to the others |
Wives, husbands, mothers |
Fathers, sisters and brothers (tell 'em go home) |
Don’t you wish you didn’t function |
Don’t you wish you didn’t think |
Beyond the next paycheck and the next little drink |
Well, you do so make up your mind to go on |
'Cause when you woke up this mornin' |
Ev’rything you had was gone |
(Woke up this mornin') |
When ya woke up this mornin' |
Woke up this mornin' |
Ya, woke up this mornin' |
Woke up this mornin', you wanna be You wanna be the chosen one |
(Yeah, you know what you’re talkin' about) |
You just can’t help yourself, yeah |
Woke up this mornin' |
When ya, woke up this mornin' |
(Woke up this mornin') |
(Woke up this mornin') |
Woke up this mornin' and |
(My dreams gone bad) |
Got yourself a gun (gotta hold, a-wind yourself up) |
A-got yourself a gun |
(Larry, one more time now it’s almost done) |
Got yourself a gun. |
Oh yeah! |