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Musicbrainz DBWell, I rolled and I tumbled,
Cried the whole night long.
Well, I rolled and I tumbled,
Cried the whole night long.
Well, I woke up this mornin,
Didn't know right from wrong.
Well, I told my baby,
Before I left that town.
Well, I told my baby,
Before I left that town.
Well, don't you let nobody,
Tear my barrelhouse down.
Well, ahh, mmm-hmmm,
Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh.
Aaa, mmm-hmmm, oww, oh oh oh
Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh.
Well, if the river was whiskey,
And I was a divin duck.
Well, if the river was whiskey,
And I was a divin duck.
Well, I would dive to the bottom,
Never would I come up.
Well, I could a had a religion,
This bad old thing instead.
Well, I could a had a religion,
This bad old thing instead.
Well, all whiskey and women,
Would not let me pray.
Cried the whole night long.
Well, I rolled and I tumbled,
Cried the whole night long.
Well, I woke up this mornin,
Didn't know right from wrong.
Well, I told my baby,
Before I left that town.
Well, I told my baby,
Before I left that town.
Well, don't you let nobody,
Tear my barrelhouse down.
Well, ahh, mmm-hmmm,
Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh.
Aaa, mmm-hmmm, oww, oh oh oh
Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh.
Well, if the river was whiskey,
And I was a divin duck.
Well, if the river was whiskey,
And I was a divin duck.
Well, I would dive to the bottom,
Never would I come up.
Well, I could a had a religion,
This bad old thing instead.
Well, I could a had a religion,
This bad old thing instead.
Well, all whiskey and women,
Would not let me pray.
| mikeatlarge | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 09:26 This one makes me stop listening to RP every time. It just doesn't fit into most of RP's otherwise brilliant sets. |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 15:34 Worth $3.50 of anyone's money!! 
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| christopherwoods (West Midlands, United Kingdom) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:50 For a long time I thought this was the original — until I found out today that Muddy Waters' recording is itself a cover of Hambone Willie Newbern's "Roll and Tumble Blues". Bill, playlist the original (and get shot of the frustrating, average Jeff Beck cover!) |
| calypsus_1 (East of Eden) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 08:28 Howling Wolf Vs Muddy Waters by bp fallon http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpfallon/ Chess Vs Chess! |
| bluedot (Long Beach, CA) | Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 21:11 Cynaera wrote: I prefer the Osmonds' version of this song because it has a theremin and a screaming guy in red spandex.  Seriously, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, BB King - they all put a big grin on my face when I listen to their music... I love this song to pieces.Muddy actually DID do some pretty cool stuff with speedy "modern" blues guitarist Johnny Winter in his later daze... |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 06:02 In my Hotel-room nobody takes her knickers off! |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:56 A song is not necessarily good, because Muddy is written on the cover! |
| Bacadiar (((Detroit))) | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 06:37 Artist status aside, this song feels like a visit with grandpappy. Zzzzzz |
| lkovathana (Chicago, Illinois) | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 23:01 Ah, such a comforting sound. Well, I rolled and I tumbled, Cried the whole night long. Well, I rolled and I tumbled, Cried the whole night long. Well, I woke up this mornin, Didn't know right from wrong. Well, I told my baby, Before I left that town. Well, I told my baby, Before I left that town. Well, don't you let nobody, Tear my barrelhouse down. Well, ahh, mmm-hmmm, Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh. Aaa, mmm-hmmm, oww, oh oh oh Owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh. Well, if the river was whiskey, And I was a divin duck. Well, if the river was whiskey, And I was a divin duck. Well, I would dive to the bottom, Never would I come up. Well, I could a had a religion, This bad old thing instead. Well, I could a had a religion, This bad old thing instead. Well, all whiskey and women, Would not let me pray. More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/muddy_waters/#share |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:49 Did he say "If the river was Whiskey and I was a Garden Gnome"? |
| idiot_wind | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:47 You know, Bobby Dylan does a nice cover of this. He's a touring this summer. And I will see him in Iowa, South Dakota, and maybe Indiana. Yeah baby...on the road with Bob. |
| vluvlu (Virginia Beach, VA) | Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 09:17 No. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 13:33 Papernapkin wrote: Didn't Muddy perform at the Grammys with Lady Gago last year? If he did, it was quite a feat since he died in 1983. |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: May 21, 2012 - 14:04 You who like this should make the progression from the latest iteration all the way back in years, through Blind Lemon, etc. Interesting to hear each one after the other. Extra credit: Compare this with Canned Tuna's version. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 09:49 Didn't Muddy perform at the Grammys with Lady Gago last year? |
| steeler (Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 09:48 triskele wrote: saw him in suburban chicago just a few months before he died...what a privilege Westmont? I know one of Muddy's kids grew up there. |
| mcYammer (Beervana) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 09:46 Muddy nailed my morning here in land of strange behaviors |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 14:03 Sounds sooooo good!! |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 22:04 Roots go deep. |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 15:36 Great, needs no embellishment. |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 15:41 scrubbrush wrote: could use a drum machine (respectfully)...could use NUTHIN'. this is perfect as it is. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 16:27 unclehud wrote: Needs synthesizer, heavier drum line, backing strings, three or four backup singers, horns, theremin, Buchla, and a screaming guitar solo from some guy in red sequined spandex pants. NO IT DOESN'T. Everybody's covered this song (probably even the Osmonds) so go listen to a different version if your narrow mind can't handle something a little out of the ordinary. I prefer the Osmonds' version of this song because it has a theremin and a screaming guy in red spandex. Seriously, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, BB King - they all put a big grin on my face when I listen to their music... I love this song to pieces. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 14:17 . . . eat your heart out Bob Dylan. . . |
| ThePoose | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 12:37 DDB61 wrote: I saw Muddy in the late 70's too - one night when he opened for Eric Clapton in Indy. Eric wasn't straight that night; Buddy was the better show. Imagine the king opening for the pretender to the throne |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 12:37 diggin this old Muddy version but I recall a pretty kick ass Howlin Wolf of essentially the same chord progression with different lyrics and title... |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 15:19 Bonnie Raitt - Rollin' & Tumblin' (Muddy Waters), Live (1972) |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 13:25 Needs synthesizer, heavier drum line, backing strings, three or four backup singers, horns, theremin, Buchla, and a screaming guitar solo from some guy in red sequined spandex pants. NO IT DOESN'T. Everybody's covered this song (probably even the Osmonds) so go listen to a different version if your narrow mind can't handle something a little out of the ordinary. |
| btilrn (Redding, CA) | Posted: Jan 10, 2011 - 22:15 Well said. aelfheld wrote: That's why I gave it a 10. |
| aelfheld | Posted: Dec 01, 2010 - 19:02 Shesdifferent wrote: I know everyone loves this guy...but this is the kind of stuff that steers me away from listening to RP That's why I gave it a 10. |
| triskele (here) | Posted: Dec 01, 2010 - 19:01 goose bumps. |
| (former member) | Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 13:24 scrubbrush wrote: could use a drum machine And better enunciation. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 11:08 scrubbrush wrote: could use a drum machine More Cowbell. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Aug 28, 2010 - 11:27 Giselle62 wrote: Er, you were in Chicago 1968? Tell us more? Did you see Allen Ginsberg there? PM me? I was 14 and a friend of mine and I went to Grant Park for what was supposed to be a free concert at the shell with Muddy Waters and Sly and Family Stone. I remember really enjoying Muddy Waters. After he left Sly never showed but there was an annoying local DJ that seemed to be riling up the crowd more than he was calming them. Eventually, a riot ensued. Most people were just trying to leave but the cops were hassling and arresting people that were just trying to get away from it. We went to the museum and got in just as they locked the doors and watched until it died down and eventually got home very late. My folks were extremely pissed when they found out I had gone as if I knew there was going to be a riot or something... Found out much later that Sly had been held up at the airport for some bogus charge. We all felt it was done on purpose to invoke what happened. Like why were there cops already there behind the shell in full riot gear hours before the riot started? There were not any more rock type concerts there for a very long time. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: Aug 28, 2010 - 11:20 I know everyone loves this guy...but this is the kind of stuff that steers me away from listening to RP |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 20:58 Rolling Stones & Muddy Waters- I'm a man, Live |
| AvoidingWork (Home of Big Boy #4004) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 15:53 scrubbrush wrote: could use a drum machine And an Auto-Tuner. Next... |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 15:51 Giselle62 wrote: Er, you were in Chicago 1968? Tell us more? Did you see Allen Ginsberg there? PM me? NOOOO - don't PM, POST! I'd love to read about your adventures! (I was twelve in '68, and I was into idiot-music like the Osmonds, Bobby Sherman, and the Raiders.) Didn't appreciate the blues or the bohemians until I got older... Uh, sorry to butt in...  |
| triskele (too close to the edge) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 15:50 saw him in suburban chicago just a few months before he died...what a privilege |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 19:28 DaveInVA wrote: I saw him in '68 in Chicago at the Grant Park Band Shell. Showing my age here, eeek! Er, you were in Chicago 1968? Tell us more? Did you see Allen Ginsberg there? PM me? |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 19:19 He got some props during the 60's some of the British blues players brought him back and toured with him—-bringing him wide recognition. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Jul 04, 2010 - 12:15  Muddy Waters 1978 3 by ~DeeBeeCooper David Cooper ©2010 ~DeeBeeCooper . |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 14:31 People, take into context the date this was released. 1954. Some of you weren't even born then. I came along two years later, and I missed out on this entire genré of music because my parents were staunch bigots. I missed Ray Charles, Charlie Mingus, Aretha Franklin (they allowed Nat King Cole because he was "close to white.") Muddy Waters played the blues from the roots. Ya know - I'd love to have a "family tree" of blues artists, because we all know Clapton has roots in the blues, but if we track his influences back, we'd see Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and who knows beyond that? (Note to self: Check to see if the ex got the Robert Johnson album...) I don't always like the blues, but for me, Muddy Waters is up on that pedestal of "Blues Artists That Deserve Recognition And Maybe A Star Somewhere."  |
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 14:23 scrubbrush wrote: could use a drum machine Pft. Nothing wrong with this a volume knob can't fix. 10. |
| scrubbrush | Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 22:33 could use a drum machine |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 08:06 BKardon wrote: Interesting place to be in the Summer of '68. Yes it was a shame the concert later turned into a riot after Sly and the Stoned Family didn't show up as planned after Muddy Waters. Being only 15 then my folks were not at all amused when they found out I was there. They treated me like I had started it or something. Fortunately I was able to get to the museum and get in before they locked the place down. |
| Albert1967 (Leusden, the Netherlands) | Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 08:01 DaveInVA wrote: I saw him in '68 in Chicago at the Grant Park Band Shell. Showing my age here, eeek! Major envy here! |
| BKardon (Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison) | Posted: Mar 30, 2010 - 23:30 DaveInVA wrote: I saw him in '68 in Chicago at the Grant Park Band Shell. Showing my age here, eeek! Interesting place to be in the Summer of '68. |
| mrdak (Middle GA) | Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 08:55 I Love me some Muddy |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 08:53 Yea man!!  |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 08:52 plaice3 wrote: I saw Muddy Waters in the '70s but my only experience with this song is Jeff Beck's rollin' and tumblin' cover. This is a wonder! I saw him in '68 in Chicago at the Grant Park Band Shell. Showing my age here, eeek! |
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