Woke Up This Morning Lyrics - Exile On Coldharbour Lane - A3 (alabama 3)

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: [email protected] 

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! 

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