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Boom boom boom boom
I'm gonna shoot you right down,
right offa your feet
Take you home with me,
put you in my house
Boom boom boom boom
A-haw haw haw haw
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
I love to see you strut,
up and down the floor
When you talking to me,
that baby talk
I like it like that
Whoa, yeah!
Talk that talk, walk that walk
When she walk that walk,
and talk that talk,
and whisper in my ear,
tell me that you love me
I love that talk
When you talk like that,
you knocks me out,
right off of my feet
Hoo hoo hoo
Talk that talk, and walk that walk
I'm gonna shoot you right down,
right offa your feet
Take you home with me,
put you in my house
Boom boom boom boom
A-haw haw haw haw
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
I love to see you strut,
up and down the floor
When you talking to me,
that baby talk
I like it like that
Whoa, yeah!
Talk that talk, walk that walk
When she walk that walk,
and talk that talk,
and whisper in my ear,
tell me that you love me
I love that talk
When you talk like that,
you knocks me out,
right off of my feet
Hoo hoo hoo
Talk that talk, and walk that walk
| jimj (end of the universe) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 11:03 One of the greatest blues songs of all time by one of the greatest blues players. Remember hearing this live at a Chicago Blues fest-great set. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 18:26 We be dancing like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love it... |
| flodinos | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 09:41 Boombastic ! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jan 20, 2013 - 00:51 AndyJ wrote: A "Classic" is one that holds value over decades... This is a True Classic Yessir. And the whole Viagra "hook" thing...  |
| JIan (Phoenix, AZ, USA) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 13:31 Sloggydog wrote: Sometimes it pays to check what company you are in before making comments like "You gotta love that Hooker don't you?"  |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 16:41 A "Classic" is one that holds value over decades... This is a True Classic |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 16:33  |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 08:47 Sometimes it pays to check what company you are in before making comments like "You gotta love that Hooker don't you?" |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 21:15 Oh yeah. |
| kcar | Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 00:48 HowhowhowHow. Not the most gripping version, but he still got it done even in his old age. The guy wasn't flashy and not a great guitar player, but he was raw and very real. "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" is about the most chilling piece of blues I've ever heard—best version too. |
| skindy (AwlbanNY) | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 20:37 IrieTom wrote:  This is what I think of every time I hear this song YES! Me too! Bless Ackroyd, Belushi and Landis for making this movie, and bringing so many of the blues masters to a wider audience. |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 08:07 Where it all began... |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Jan 21, 2012 - 07:22 Welllllll yeah!  8 |
| stevetheshoe (wayfaraway) | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 14:04 Cynaera wrote: I've never liked Hooker's music. I must be sadly lacking somewhere, but when I hear his stuff, I just think of a dirty old man who's singing about what he can't get it up to do anymore. (Don't throw rocks - it's just my impression, and I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.) When this song started, I just said, "Heyheyheyhey! Wellwellwellwell! Howhowhowhow!" And then the "boomboomboomboom" started, and I kicked myself for missing that particular word. Love his music or hate it - he's a part of the blues. Just not really the part I can handle. It's me, not the music... Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone?  Too bad for you. I love all of his music, even the gritty dirty stuff recorded in Detroit in the late 40's and early 50's. He was definately a blues icon. Hope you don't feel the same way about Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. |
| Mugro (My body is in Dubai, but my broken heart is in Red Sox Nation) | Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 08:55 Cynaera wrote: I've never liked Hooker's music. I must be sadly lacking somewhere, but when I hear his stuff, I just think of a dirty old man who's singing about what he can't get it up to do anymore. (Don't throw rocks - it's just my impression, and I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.) When this song started, I just said, "Heyheyheyhey! Wellwellwellwell! Howhowhowhow!" And then the "boomboomboomboom" started, and I kicked myself for missing that particular word. Love his music or hate it - he's a part of the blues. Just not really the part I can handle. It's me, not the music... Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone? He wasn't so old when he started singing this song. And I bet he got plenty of "boom boom" in his time... Jes sayin'..... |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Nov 24, 2011 - 06:41 Awesome Image - thanks for sharing - Hook is a very old soul! shawshank wrote:  |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 07:11 Cynaera wrote: I've never liked Hooker's music. I must be sadly lacking somewhere, but when I hear his stuff, I just think of a dirty old man who's singing about what he can't get it up to do anymore. (Don't throw rocks - it's just my impression, and I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.) When this song started, I just said, "Heyheyheyhey! Wellwellwellwell! Howhowhowhow!" And then the "boomboomboomboom" started, and I kicked myself for missing that particular word. Love his music or hate it - he's a part of the blues. Just not really the part I can handle. It's me, not the music... Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone? Well, everyone doesn't have to like everything. Personally, I've always liked Mr. Hooker's music, not just this up-tempo stuff, but also his slow, mournful tunes like "It Serve You Right To Suffer" or "Decoration Day". I saw him perform at The Bottom Line in NYC in 1982: fantastic show! He got up out of his chair to dance for a bit, saying: "I guess I got to dance; I am The Boogie Man, after all". |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 19, 2011 - 14:57 pyxxel wrote: Yes you were. We pity you  Thank you for acknowledging my tact - I usually suck at it. Don't pity me - I can be pretty snarky, too. Ask anyone.  |
| Foot (NorCal / Wine) | Posted: Jun 19, 2011 - 14:51 Keith Richards says 'thank you.' |
| kingfish2004 (That GREAT country of Texas!) | Posted: May 13, 2011 - 14:40 What I plan to do to my girl friend ALL weekend long! YEAH BABY!!! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: May 13, 2011 - 14:38 Cynaera wrote: I've never liked Hooker's music. I must be sadly lacking somewhere, but when I hear his stuff, I just think of a dirty old man who's singing about what he can't get it up to do anymore. (Don't throw rocks - it's just my impression, and I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.) When this song started, I just said, "Heyheyheyhey! Wellwellwellwell! Howhowhowhow!" And then the "boomboomboomboom" started, and I kicked myself for missing that particular word. Love his music or hate it - he's a part of the blues. Just not really the part I can handle. It's me, not the music... Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone? I am with you! |
| IrieTom (Brunswick, NY) | Posted: Apr 17, 2011 - 10:33 This is what I think of every time I hear this song |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 04:58 Demons, we all got 'em. flaws? right out there for everyone to see. Still, this guys rocks the blues, always did. (if our artists had to pass a level 2 background check there wouldn't be much music would there?) |
| GregX59 (Omaha, NE) | Posted: Jan 13, 2011 - 08:17 drtjdel wrote: Before he died I saw John Lee at his club in S.F., the Boom Boom Room. Comes out on stage with an absolute FOX on each arm and a big grin on his face. You DOG!! John Hiatt says this exact thing in his song "Old Days" from the "Same Old Man" album (an EXCELLENT album): "On a bill with John Lee Hooker in a joint up in Washington, He came in with a gorgeous woman on each arm as I was singing my song, Walked 'em right up sat 'em on the edge of the stage as I went singing along, And that's called "Evenin' son, I'm the headliner!" |
| pyxxel (Dublin, Ireland) | Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 09:01 Cynaera wrote: Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone? Yes you were. We pity you |
| oenyaw | Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 09:01 The Firesign Theater does an impresion of Eric Burdon doing this song. Great stuff. |
| ceviche (Lima, Peru) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 12:30 I saw him at the Cellar Door in DC in 1980. He was excellent. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 14:39 I've never liked Hooker's music. I must be sadly lacking somewhere, but when I hear his stuff, I just think of a dirty old man who's singing about what he can't get it up to do anymore. (Don't throw rocks - it's just my impression, and I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.) When this song started, I just said, "Heyheyheyhey! Wellwellwellwell! Howhowhowhow!" And then the "boomboomboomboom" started, and I kicked myself for missing that particular word. Love his music or hate it - he's a part of the blues. Just not really the part I can handle. It's me, not the music... Was I tactful enough to not offend anyone? |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 00:44 He can Boom Boom me anytime! |
| Tippster (Washington, DC) | Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 16:52 Bat wrote: Eric Clapton brought Muddy Waters along to open one of his tours shortly before the great McKinley Morganfield died. The tour was mid to late 70s. I've got to say that it was a sad and painful thing to witness, Waters was just too old and was just (barely) going through the motions. I moved to the SF Bay area in '82, which is where John Lee Hooker lived. Although I loved his music I never went to see him live because I couldn't get Muddy Waters out of my mind. I thought he had one foot in the grave in '82 but the tough old bastard lived for nearly 20 more years. If you haven't please watch/listen to "The Last Waltz." Muddy Waters was amazing that night, that was 1976. I watche JLH tour with Big Head Todd in the mid-90's. He was rollin'. |
| Xstar (Florence, Kentucky) | Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 16:50 RP Boom Boom Boom Boom!  |
| cjh7d | Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 16:50 Springsteen/E Street did a killer version of this in the #2 slot on their Tunnel of Love tour back in '88 . . . |
| shawshank (Maryland) | Posted: May 04, 2010 - 03:31 |
| parrothead (could be anywhere in the great USA) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 15:28 paulpaar wrote: the station and listeners are stuck in the past because yes and no the youth of today are cooked. !! they are waste. Its the stupid drugs, is all I can say. chit like "ecstasy:" now: how stupid is that? ! Ecstasy in a pill?! Please! Or the plain stupid brains they run. Idiots ya know.. ?? Kids today just don't care. OR they only care to mess you up. How lame is that?! They're lame , . . .as is their noise. Sorry, but we are experiencing the downfall of mankind. Or haven't you looked around? It s the stupid cell phones and computers and lack of exercise and the crap they eat , the foo who think they are coo. Here in chitty ABQ, the street drunks and waste product are all seen eating chips and some crap sugar corn syrup drink. get IT? Please forgive me for being truth. love Love p Us humans been self medicating since before the stone age. It is in human nature and it will never change. When I was young, in the 70's & 80's the older generation said that this up and coming generation is not worth a darn and the future is not looking that good. Well here we are, in the future, as in retrospect of the 70's & 80's. The young are now running the world, for better or worst, keeping all of this cool technology we play with up and going and inventing new stuff all of the time. Medical, computing,transportation,gaming,envioromental,physics,philosophy and the list goes on and on. All I can add is shut up and hang on for the ride. Be thankful your alive and look forward not backwards! |
| Bat (Austin) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 14:57 dkwalika wrote: Glad the Stones took him out on tour just before he died. Eric Clapton brought Muddy Waters along to open one of his tours shortly before the great McKinley Morganfield died. The tour was mid to late 70s. I've got to say that it was a sad and painful thing to witness, Waters was just too old and was just (barely) going through the motions. I moved to the SF Bay area in '82, which is where John Lee Hooker lived. Although I loved his music I never went to see him live because I couldn't get Muddy Waters out of my mind. I thought he had one foot in the grave in '82 but the tough old bastard lived for nearly 20 more years. |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 14:48 Long Live John Lee Hooker!!  |
| Freedonia (Houston, TX) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 14:47 Chair dancing and don't give a damn what my co-workers think! |
| ratman | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 07:45  |
| PFM (Off the road) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 10:56 dkwalika wrote: Glad the Stones took him out on tour just before he died. As opposed to after? |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 10:45 AdyMiles wrote: this is annoying shit - can't wait for it to end - can't believe it's got so many high votes Perhaps you simply need to loosen the waistband on your undergarment. . . |
| chadb (Jacksonville, FL, USA) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 09:12 Yeah, this is GodLike. |
| PinkFlamingo69 (Nowhere Kansas) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 10:51 Bill is cookin today....Thanks Bill!  |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 10:51 Sang it John... |
| dkwalika (Upper Midwest) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 10:51 Glad the Stones took him out on tour just before he died. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 15:32 drtjdel wrote: Before he died I saw John Lee at his club in S.F., the Boom Boom Room. Comes out on stage with an absolute FOX on each arm and a big grin on his face. You DOG!! Like Flava Flav? |
| djengs | Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 15:32 paulpaar wrote: the station and listeners are stuck in the past because yes and no the youth of today are cooked. !! they are waste. Its the stupid drugs, is all I can say. chit like "ecstasy:" now: how stupid is that? ! Ecstasy in a pill?! Please! Or the plain stupid brains they run. Idiots ya know.. ?? Kids today just don't care. OR they only care to mess you up. How lame is that?! They're lame , . . .as is their noise. Sorry, but we are experiencing the downfall of mankind. Or haven't you looked around? It s the stupid cell phones and computers and lack of exercise and the crap they eat , the foo who think they are coo. Here in chitty ABQ, the street drunks and waste product are all seen eating chips and some crap sugar corn syrup drink. get IT? Please forgive me for being truth. love Love p Wow this must be the truth. My grandfather said the same thing in 1968. |
| LucBoardwalk | Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 15:29 It is from music like this that ALL rock n' roll was born. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Nov 27, 2009 - 13:30 Mmmmmh, not so much! Give only 5, too much boom , boom for me! |
| siloco (Tampa, FLA) | Posted: Nov 22, 2009 - 00:43 Very nice, but the original studio version is better. |
| stickers11 (Burnaby, BC) | Posted: Nov 22, 2009 - 00:41 drtjdel wrote: Before he died I saw John Lee at his club in S.F., the Boom Boom Room. Comes out on stage with an absolute FOX on each arm and a big grin on his face. You DOG!! Love it! |