John Lee Hooker's Burning Hell is raw and stripped down to rough basics. Here's my transcription of the lyrics to one track as Hooker sang them in a Detroit studio on April 20, 1959. It's Hooker's remembrance of an event that happened on April 23, 1940 (not in 1937), a haunting fire that killed more than two hundred people.
Natchez Fire (Burnin')
Did you read about the fire?
Nineteen and thirty seven
Did you read about the fire?
Nineteen hundred and thirty-seven
Walter Barnes and his big band
They was swinging that night
The building had one door
It was on the side
The fire broke out late that night
People was screamin’
They couldn’t get out
Everybody runnin’
Runnin’ to the door
The door got jammed
Nobody got out
All you could hear
Crying Lord have mercy
Mmmmh mmmmh
Save me
Save me
Save me
It must’ve been a plan
A plan from above
Mmmmh mmmmh
A plan from above
‘Cause who knows?
No one was saved
Not as I know
Mmmmh mmmmh
Mmmmh mmmmh
The band was swinging
Late that night
When the fire broke out
Natchez
Natchez, Mississippi
Mmmmh
A great big barn
A great big barn
Many lives was gone down that night
Mmmmh
You never forget
You never forget
Mmmmh mmmmh mmmmh
Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez, Mississippi
Mmmmh Mmmmh
Today's Rune: Growth.
8 comments:
My goodness, that is a depressing song. Think I'll stick to Christmas Carols for now.
wow. depressing.
great blues . from john lee. its sounbd so great when he play it solo on his akkustik guitar and hes only using one chord for that blues "C". (album burning hell)
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