Jorma Kaukonen |
Quah (1974) |
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1. Genesis - 4:19 (Jorma Kaukonen) |
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The time has come for us to pause |
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You say I'm harder than a wall |
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And as we walked into the day |
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And though I'm feeling you inside |
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The time we borrowed from ourselves |
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And when we came out into view |
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I’ll be all right |
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If trouble come I don’t pain no mind |
(A traditional religious song, used as a base also for the very well known Pete Seeger's song "We Shall Overcome". Lyrics transcribed by Alberto Truffi)
They
gave me money to find the sky |
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But days are open |
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I lived in shadow |
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Then freedom called us |
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The love we wanted |
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Chorus: |
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Our time is open |
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And our
freedom skims a lot along |
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Say there’s
gonna be some sailing |
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Building
houses made of paper |
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I’m singing
everybody knows it’s true |
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Now I feel
like only smiling |
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Heading for
our destination |
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I’m singing
everybody knows it’s true |
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Heading for
the sunshine country |
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Another man done gone (another man
done gone) He had a long chain on (he had a
long chain on He's from the county farm (he's
from the county farm Another man done gone another man
done gone another man done gone They did him just the same He killed another man Another man done gone |
Another man done gone |
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I didn't know his name |
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He had a long chain on |
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They set the dogs on him |
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They killed another man |
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Just as long as I’m in this world I am the light of
this world |
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Just as long as I’m in this world I am the light of
this world |
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Prayer is the key to heaven and faith unlocks the door |
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I know I got religion I know I ain’t ashamed |
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Didn’t they take John the baptist and put him in a
kettle of oil |
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Police Dog Blues |
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All my life I've been a traveling man |
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I shipped my trunks down to Tennessee |
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I met a gal I couldn't get her off my mind |
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His name is Rambler and when he gets the chance |
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I guess I'll travel, now I guess I'll let her be |
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Nina Simone's Lyrics: |
Let me sigh, let me cry when I’m blue |
What is love? Only a prelude to sorrow |
What is love? only a prelude to sorrow |
(Tom Hobson version is slightly different) |
We’re gonna keep on moving now CHORUS Pushing on faster till we can push no more CHORUS (Transcription by M&M based on tabs available on the net, to be verified) |
In the same year 1974 in which the Jefferson Airplane closed their activity as group, Grace Slick proposed her ambitious work Manhole, the guitarist of the band Jorma Kaukonen recorded a wonderful solo work, completely acoustic, unplugged, as we can say now, together with a musician and a friend, interested as him in tradition and blues. An album very far from the directions choosen by his former partners, that he wouldn't join in their new spatial adventures. He will start a new itinerary, together with his bassist Jack Casady, with his new goup Hot Tuna. About Tom Hobson and Margareta Kaukonen we reproduce in the followings the brief notes, written by Pete Rain, previously present on the guitarist's web site.
«Back in the folk
music days (early 60s) in San Francisco, when Jorma would back a young Janis
Joplin on guitar in coffeehouse gigs, Tom Hobson was a fellow folk musician who
had both a house available to congregate in, and a wife who made good coffee, so
many musicians would inevitably wind up at the Hobsons' house for jam sessions.
Jorma said that Hobson was a fairly prolific writer but had never recorded any
of his material, so when this album project came about (around the time of Jorma
and Jack permanently leaving the Airplane), Tom was invited to do some songs
with him. Jorma describes Hobson as being "thin as a rail", a chain smoker, and
having "about one lung". He left us by way of a brain aneurism. An old friend of
Tom's named Eric Van der Wyk (banjo player for Ragged But Right) has put up a
site in honor of Tom: http://tomhobson.com
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See also: Jefferson Airplane's complete discography | |
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Personnel and credits |
Jorma Kaukonen: acoustic guitar and voice
Production: Jack Casady Cover: Margareta Kaukonen
Internal photos: Jim Marshall Album data: GRUNT Records - 1974 - BXL 1-0209 - Patent 1974 RCA - BMG Entertainment |
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