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Song «Goin' Down Slow» von Davy Graham.
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Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1965 01 (Album)
Label: Decca LK 4649
Songwriter James B. Oden
Produktion: Ray Horricks
Genre: Blues - Urbanblues - British-Blues, Folk - Urbanfolk - Guitarfolk
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Davy Graham war ein Meister der Gitarre, der Folk, Orientalia, Klassik und Jazz spielen konnte. Angeregt won der arabischen Musik (Oud aus Marokko) führte er die DADGAD-Stimmung für die Gitarre in die britische Musik ein. Er beeinflusste Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Paul Simon, John Martyn, Richard Thompson und Jimmy Page.
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Davy Graham
James B. Oden
Ray Horricks
Lyrics
I have had my fun, if I don't get well no more I want to tell you I've had big fun if I don't get well no more You see my health is failing And I'm going down slow, yes I am Now what I want you to do for me Somebody write my father, tell him the shape that I'm in, oh yeah Oh early tonight will someone call my father, Tell him the, tell him the shape that I'm in, oh yeah And while you're talkin' to him, tell him to pray for me And tell me to forgive me, forgive me for all my sins Yeah forgive me for my sins Tell him that I'm heading on my way, Look for, look for me close home, oh yeah Tell him early one morning to look for, to look for me close home, yeah You tell him just in case he don't see my body Oh he can do, all he can do is stand there and moan And I believe he can do, yes he can, yeah, yes he can, yeah Mmmmmmmmm Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah oh Early one morning I'm coming on home And I believe I'll make it there, yes I do, yes I do And I tell you, I tell you that Early one morning I'm going on home And I believe to my soul yeah I'm gonna make it there, yes I do Oh but just in case, he don't see my body Let me him know his child has gone out of this world Some way Right now I'm going down, oh oh, I'm going down real slow