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I wrote this song last summer after having the title and a few lines kicking around in my head for a long time. One of the things I've noticed over the years is that many people, myself included, when faced with a difficult or frightening situation in life try to run away from it, avoid it, and after a while the running itself, the fear and the flight it prompts in us, becomes the problem...
I also wanted to write a blues, and hopefully a sort of "folk blues" that Fran might play along with me on... So when I finished it, that's where I went first... Fran cheerfully assured me that it isn't a blues, 'cause it's not a I-IV-V, but he also consented to put some acoustic slide on it, and he also more recently asked if he and the band could work it up in a different arrangement, which in my book is a great honor...
And speaking of great honors, this is the third in a series of five songs--so far--to which Neil has added bass and/or drums for me this year. (Collect them all!) I think he really did a good job of backing up the sort of acoustic whomp here...
The credits are as follows:
Ed Hannifin: vocals, acoustic six string guitar
Fran/ziti: acoustic slide guitar, tremelo guitar, perfect moody artwork
Neil/jiguma: bass, drums
Thank you again, gentlemen!
I also wanted to write a blues, and hopefully a sort of "folk blues" that Fran might play along with me on... So when I finished it, that's where I went first... Fran cheerfully assured me that it isn't a blues, 'cause it's not a I-IV-V, but he also consented to put some acoustic slide on it, and he also more recently asked if he and the band could work it up in a different arrangement, which in my book is a great honor...
And speaking of great honors, this is the third in a series of five songs--so far--to which Neil has added bass and/or drums for me this year. (Collect them all!) I think he really did a good job of backing up the sort of acoustic whomp here...
The credits are as follows:
Ed Hannifin: vocals, acoustic six string guitar
Fran/ziti: acoustic slide guitar, tremelo guitar, perfect moody artwork
Neil/jiguma: bass, drums
Thank you again, gentlemen!
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Lyrics
Let Your Blues Come Down
© 2008 Ed Hannifin
Em
some kind of hound is on your trail
G Em
you think it comes from hell
Em
some kind of hound is on your trail
G Em
you think it comes from hell
C G
sometimes you’ve got to stop and face
D C Em
the thing that you’ve got chasing you around
C G
sometimes you have to stop your running
D C Em13
and let your blues come down
Em
some kind of keening’s on the wind
G Em
and you’ve heard that song before
Em
some kind of keening’s on the wind
G Em
and you’ve heard that song before
C G
sometimes you have to stop and hear
D C Em
the thing that makes that high and lonesome sound
C G
sometimes you have stop your running
D C Em13
and you have to let your blues come down
Em
Some kind of whisper’s in your ear
G Em
And you know it’s not your friend
Em
Some kind of whisper’s in your ear
G Em
And you know it’s not your friend
C G
Sometimes you have to give up
D C Em
And not let the thing that scares you chase you ‘round
C G
Sometimes you need to find a quiet place
D C Em13
And let your blues comes down
Em
Some kind of feeling’s in your heart
G Em
And you wish it wasn’t there
Em
Some kind of feeling’s in your heart
G Em
And you wish it wasn’t there
C G D
sometimes you have to know that it’s your own heart
C Em13
that has got you tightly wound
C G D
sometimes you have to know it’s gonna pass
C Em13
after you let your blues come down
© 2008 Ed Hannifin
Em
some kind of hound is on your trail
G Em
you think it comes from hell
Em
some kind of hound is on your trail
G Em
you think it comes from hell
C G
sometimes you’ve got to stop and face
D C Em
the thing that you’ve got chasing you around
C G
sometimes you have to stop your running
D C Em13
and let your blues come down
Em
some kind of keening’s on the wind
G Em
and you’ve heard that song before
Em
some kind of keening’s on the wind
G Em
and you’ve heard that song before
C G
sometimes you have to stop and hear
D C Em
the thing that makes that high and lonesome sound
C G
sometimes you have stop your running
D C Em13
and you have to let your blues come down
Em
Some kind of whisper’s in your ear
G Em
And you know it’s not your friend
Em
Some kind of whisper’s in your ear
G Em
And you know it’s not your friend
C G
Sometimes you have to give up
D C Em
And not let the thing that scares you chase you ‘round
C G
Sometimes you need to find a quiet place
D C Em13
And let your blues comes down
Em
Some kind of feeling’s in your heart
G Em
And you wish it wasn’t there
Em
Some kind of feeling’s in your heart
G Em
And you wish it wasn’t there
C G D
sometimes you have to know that it’s your own heart
C Em13
that has got you tightly wound
C G D
sometimes you have to know it’s gonna pass
C Em13
after you let your blues come down
awigze
the collaborators list sez it all... that slide is exquisite. I can definitley relate to this song right now.... runnin from some hound.