A3 (Alabama 3) - Woke Up This Morning lyrics

Woke Up This Morning 5:14 Trk 3 A3 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 Album: Exile on Coldharbour Lane Geffen Records GEFD #25142 (1998) Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com 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 bu*ton 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! ~