um azul do senhor johnson

reinventado à volta do mundo

apesar do ambiente negro, embruxado e envolto em violência doméstica, este é um grande original de robert johnson (provavelmente o cantautor mais influente de sempre dos azuis do delta do mississippi), aqui numa "demoníaca" e genial interpretação acústica de eric clapton e doyle bramhall.

Early this mornin', when you knocked upon my door


And I said, "Hello, Satan, I believe it's time to go"

Me and the Devil, were walkin' side by side


I'm goin' to beat my woman, until I get satisfied

She say you don't see why, that I will dog her 'round


Now, baby, you know you ain't doin' me right, now


She say you don't see why, that I will dog her 'round


It must be that old evil spirit, so deep down in the ground

You may bury my body down by the highway side


I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone


You may bury my body down by the highway side


So my old evil spirit can take the Greyhound bus and ride

por muita gente que ouça, cada vez mais me convenço
de que ninguém cantou os azuis como robert leroy johnson




I went down to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
I went down to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
Asked the lord above "Have mercy now
save poor Bob if you please"
Yeeooo, standin at the crossroad
tried to flag a ride
ooo ooo eee
I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me babe
everybody pass me by
Standin at the crossroad babe
risin sun goin down
Standin at the crossroad babe
eee eee eee, risin sun goin down
I believe to my soul now,
Poor Bob is sinkin down
You can run, you can run
tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run
tell my friend Willie Brown
(th)'at I got the croosroad blues this mornin Lord
babe, I'm sinkin down
And I went to the crossroad momma
I looked east and west
I went to the crossroad baby
I looked east and west
Lord, I didn't have no sweet woman
ooh-well babe, in my distress