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The Allman Brothers Band - Sweet Mama (Lay Your Burdens Down)

The Allman Brothers Band - Sweet Mama (Lay Your Burdens Down) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Win, Lose Or Draw
Released: 1975

Sweet Mama (Lay Your Burdens Down) Lyrics

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This was written by Billy Joe Shaver , a friend of Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts. Besides old blues songs, it's the only song the band recorded they did not write themselves.

This was a difficult time for the Allman Brothers. After the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, it was tough to keep the band together, especially after Gregg Allman married Cher. They put this album together when they were doing a series of fundraiser concerts for Jimmy Carter, who went on to win the election and become president of the United States. Like the band, Carter is from Georgia.

Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow

Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A Better Tomorrow
Released: 2014

A Better Tomorrow Lyrics

Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated, for those who ain't make it

Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves
Victims of worldly ways, memories stays engraved
All my live brothers, is locked down with high numbers
The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger
In this New World the Order slaughter men, women, and children
Ten feet gates surround the building keep us sealed in
The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet
Constant war, sever threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle, can't let my cipher crumble
Vivid thoughts, Devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring, I did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase, performing a sting
It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
Not a role model, I walk a hard role to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
Their life and times, deadly like the virus design
But too, minute to dilute, the science is mine

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

A voice cries from the wilderness of the North
A representation of the families that lost one
All victims of incarceration
Or other divisions of the family structure
Youths are injected with serums that leads
To skin irritations, babies being born with
Disfigurations, experimentations
On their faces there bear world relations
Of mothers that carry the pain
Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail
Big brothers been slain from hails of gun fire
It lightly begins to rain screams of terror
Are hidden by the passing trains
This can't be little Shane, his uncle cried
As he drops to his nephew's side, holding his cane
Just give me a name, of who has inflicted this
Bitter sickness, and left us to witness

Yeah, yo
Curses from war, innocent blood spills for days
Soothe in godly ways, hands, solemn in praise
Tree of life, more precious than Wu is golden game
The wise self flourish inherit, Halls of Fame
Crime visions in my blood got me, locked in prison
While we die hard living people whine about religion, vision
Blow, spin, and sin and killing what's revealing
It's a never ending battle with no ending or beginning, listen
Zero process, progress, become the hunted
America's most wanted, good life flaunted, want it
Some love the speed, some satisfy a need
Some want to be down, young gun seed, jungle breed
The stronger speed, someone die, someone bleed
One flew astray, and then caught my little seed
Can it be, the ice have us trifle life, made me grab the knife
The righteous man would be within these stripes pipes
Take in my energy, breath and know the rest
Cause the good die young and the hard die best

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

Y'all bitches love dances, and pulling down your pants
While your man's on tour, your spending up his advances
Your friends ain't shit, all they do is drink, smoke, and suck dick
The whole projects is trapped in stench
You either high school drop-outs, one to three cop-outs
Fifteen years old, shorty ass and top out
Ninety-nine cent beer drinking pussy stinking
Fucking so much your ass and titties start shrinking
New World Order slave trade, minimum wage, better cage
Can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays
Inside my lab, I'm going mad
Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag
The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods
The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignites, through the night, by the dawn
Early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe

As we dwell through this concrete hell, calling it home
Mama say, take your time young man and build your own
Don't wind up like your old dad
Still searching for them glory days he never had
So many bad want to scheme for American dream, no more kings
The cash rule everything now, we going down
These babies looking up to us, it's up to us
The Million Man March MC's, get on the bus
But envy, greed, lust, and hate, separate
Though the devil mind state blood kin cannot relate
No longer, brothers, we unstable
Like Kane when he slew Abel, killing each other

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

Writer/s: MCFADDEN, GENE / WHITEHEAD, JOHN / CARSTARPHEN, VICTOR / SMITH, CLIFFORD / WOODS, COREY TODD / DIGGS, ROBERT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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The title track of Wu-Tang Clan's sixth album shares its name with a song they featured on their 1997 sophomore LP, Wu-Tang Forever. The reference in both instances is to John Woo's 1986 crime film, A Better Tomorrow.

RZA explained the album title to Billboard magazine : "John Woo has always been an inspiration to me," he said. "But it wasn't just in reference to that film, because that film is actually a very violent film, very specific about the police corruption and things of that nature. My concept of a better tomorrow, moreso, is what the sentence says itself. We need a better tomorrow."

"I'm a vegetarian. Why? Because no animal needs to die for me to live," RZA added. "I'm into renewable energy, I'm into getting rid of the plastic bottles and coming with another form of drinking our water. I'm into the people respecting each other. We don't got to like each other but respect each other for everything you are, whether you're black, brown, white or red, homosexual, woman, whatever it is. We gotta have respect for each other first."

This samples Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' 1975 single, "Wake Up Everybody."

The song's music video compiles protest footage from Ferguson, Missouri and New York City as well as soundbites from President Obama speaking on race relations in America. "This visual was created by Wu-Tang Clan in the hopes of inspiring change and promoting unity throughout the world, The Wu-Tang Clan said in a press release. They added a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Asked by NME what his biggest regret about the A Better Tomorrow album was, RZA replied: "I tried to get James Blake to do a hook on 'A Better Tomorrow' but we couldn't make it happen in time."

The pair did previously work together on Blake's Overgrown track "Take A Fall For Me."

The Allman Brothers Band - Win, Lose Or Draw

The Allman Brothers Band - Win, Lose Or Draw Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Win, Lose Or Draw
Released: 1975

Win, Lose Or Draw Lyrics

Endlessly facing the cold concrete floor
Four cold grey walls, and no doors
I barely remember the last forty days
Or just what they're holdin' me for
So far away, they tell me:
"boy, you're here to stay; win, lose or draw"
Letters unanswered and visits so few
Cold desperation I know
I guess I'd give most anything
Oh lord, if they'd just let me go
I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw

Ma, she's dead and gone
Pa just don't seem to find the time
It makes me so sad that he's forsaken me
When he's all I had left I call mine
I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw.

There's two men in one room for ten long years
Still strangers that talk away the time
'cause each time I think of your soft hand in mine
I lay here and die one more time
And I'm so far away
Day after lonely, lonely day
Win, lose or draw

Writer/s: ALLMAN, GREGG L.
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Title track to the album that was very difficult to record due to the band's drug problems and Gregg Allman's marriage to Cher. The entire band was rarely together during recordings.

Gregg Allman wrote this, but recorded his vocals in California, away from the rest of the band. He was married to Cher at the time and spent a lot of time there to accommodate her schedule.

Cast of Annie - It's The Hard Knock Life

Cast of Annie - It's The Hard Knock Life Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Annie Soundtrack
Released: 1977

It's The Hard Knock Life Lyrics

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With music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, this song debuted in the 1977 Broadway musical Annie as the cast of orphans lament their struggles laboring for the unscrupulous Miss Hannigan. The play follows Annie's adventure as she meets the wealthy Daddy Warbucks, who tries to help her find her real parents.

In a Blender interview, Strouse notes how this song stands out from the rest of the Annie repertoire: "Most of the songs in Annie are very 1920s, more upbeat, but 'Hard Knock Life' had to reflect the fact that the kids in the story were underprivileged and exploited. So I wrote a very angry, angular melody, quite unlike the other songs."

Jay-Z spun this into the innovative rap song, "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)," in 2002, where he likened the hardships of the orphans to the struggles of kids growing up in the ghetto.

Playing the youngest orphan, Molly, Danielle Brisebois leads the chorus on this track, which was sampled for Jay-Z's version. While the song became a gold-certified single, all Brisebois was left with was sour grapes. Because she was paid a flat fee when she performed the song for the musical, she doesn't earn any royalties from it. "As a result, I’m singing the lead vocal on a #1 song but not making a penny out of it," she said.

Annie was adapted into a feature film in 1982 with Aileen Quinn in the lead role, while Toni Ann Gisondi played Molly. Albert Finney and Carol Burnett starred as Daddy Warbucks and Miss Hannigan, respectively.

Produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith, this hit the big screen again in 2014 with Quvenzhane Wallis as Annie, Jamie Foxx as Will Stacks (Daddy Warbucks), and Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan. Nicolette Pierini filled the role of Molly, updated as Mia.

For the 2014 film, the lyrics to this song were altered to reflect the children being foster kids instead of orphans. Jay-Z's version is prominently featured in the movie's trailer.

Aside from four new songs ("The City's Yours," "Opportunity", "Who Am I", and "Moonquake Lake"), the soundtrack borrows the original Broadway tunes, with an arrangement by Australian pop singer Sia and Greg Kurstin.

The lyrics reference New York City's Chrysler Building: "You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building." Designed by William Van Alen, the Art Deco-style skyscraper was briefly the tallest building in the world (1,046 ft) until it was surpassed by the Empire State Building (1,454 ft). Completed in 1930, it would have been three years old during Annie's 1933 setting.

The orphans also suggest making Miss Hannigan drink a Mickey Finn, which is slang for a drug-laced beverage. The name was allegedly taken from Chicago bar owner Michael "Mickey" Finn, who was prosecuted for slipping mickies to his patrons so he could rob them.

Lifehouse - Wash

Lifehouse - Wash Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stanley Climbfall
Released: 2002

Wash Lyrics

Never meant to waste your time
Never meant to fall out of line
Always tried to get closer to you
Now it seems with every step
Feels like I'm losing my breath
I don't know what else I can do

But you Wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you fall over me
You crawl over me like sunshine

I never had to choose
Living a life with you
Or choosing lies only half true
And now I'd rather be
Alone with you and me
Than hiding behind these walls

But you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you fall over me
You crawl over me like sunshine

You wash over me
You wash over me like rain
You fall over me
You crawl over me like sunshine
Like sunshine

Everything in the world was falling through
All I knew was to look to you
My sunshine
All my life never found my place
Until I felt the sunlight on my face
My sunshine

Never meant to waste your time
Never meant to fall out of line
Always tried to get closer to you
Now it seems with every step
Feels like I'm losing my breath
I don't know what else I can do

But you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
You crawl over me
You fall over me like sunshine

Like sunshine
Like sunshine
My sunshine

Writer/s: JASON WADE
Publisher: RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Lead singer Jason Wade:
"'You was over me like the rain/ You wash over me like the sunshine' the truth is, you can't have one without the other. You can't truly know happiness without having experienced sadness. A lot of the guitar sounds I got on this record came about by experimentation, which was very cool. I turned all these frequency distortion pedals up at the same time and started playing these harmonics and weird wah-wah things, and some crazy stuff just came out of it. I went back into the studio later and tried to duplicate it, but I couldn't." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)

Genesis - I Can't Dance

Genesis - I Can't Dance Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: We Can't Dance
Released: 1991

I Can't Dance Lyrics

Hot sun beating down
Burning my feet just walking around.

Hot sun making me sweat
'Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet

I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling everything.

Blue jeans sitting on the beach,
Her dog's talking to me, but she's out of reach.

She's got a body under that shirt,
But all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt.

Cause, I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
No, I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling.

And checking everything is in place,
You never know who's looking on.

Young punk spilling beer on my shoes,
Fat guy's talking to me trying to steal my blues.

Thick smoke, see her smiling through.
I never thought so much could happen just shooting pool.

But I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling

And checking everything is in place
You never know who's looking on
A perfect body with a perfect face
Writer/s: RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL/COLLINS, PHIL/BANKS, TONY
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Genesis wrote this song in the studio in one session. "Once we started we kept going 'til we finished it," Phil Collins said in the documentary Genesis: Sum of the Parts. "It didn't take a ridiculous time to write."

The lyrics are made up of bits that Phil Collins improvised in the studio. When they started working on it, they decided to just write spontaneously to keep from over-thinking it. This explains the rather disjointed story about a guy who can't dance and is "just standing here selling."

Helmed by their go-to director Jim Yukich, the video created a lasting image thanks to the "silly walk" the three band members did. This walk was something Phil Collins did from time to time - he got the idea for it when he attended drama school and noticed that the worst dancers would always lead with the hand and foot on the same side. There is a twist ending in the video when at the end, Phil Collins does some Michael Jackson dance moves and an impressive little tap routine.

In our interview with Tony Banks , he explained that having a lead singer who was comfortable in front of the camera made the music videos much easier to create. "It gave us a chance to explore some quite fun ideas," he said. "When the lyric had an obvious way to go - with something like "I Can't Dance" or "No Son of Mine" - you could do it and express it quite well."

Bob Dylan - The Man In Me

Bob Dylan - The Man In Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: New Morning
Released: 1970

The Man In Me Lyrics

The Man In Me will do nearly any task
And as for compensation, there's little he would ask
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me

Storm clouds are raging all around my door
I think to myself I might not take it any more
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near
Sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears

The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen
But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine
Took a woman like you
To get through to the man in me

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Dylan recorded this in New York City with a talented group of studio musicians including Al Kooper and Charlie Daniels. Ron Cornelius, who played guitar on these sessions, told us that Dylan would play down the song, but as soon as they started recording he would play it in a completely different tempo, which threw off the musicians but forced them to play to their strengths. These sessions lasted about 3 weeks, with the best songs going on this album and many of the others ending up on his 1973 self-titled album Dylan.

This played a major role in the Coen Brothers' 1998 movie The Big Lebowski. The song has since been performed live by the film's main star, Jeff Bridges.

Artists to have covered this song include The Clash, Joe Cocker and Matumbi.

Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song

Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: What The Hell Happened To Me?
Released: 1995

The Chanukah Song Lyrics

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Adam Sandler wrote this novelty song with Saturday Night Live writers Lewis Morton and Ian Maxtone-Graham. He first performed it on the show's Weekend Update segment on December 3, 1994. The song details how Jewish kids feel left out during the Christmas season, and he rattles off a list of celebrities who are full Jews, part Jews, converted Jews and not Jews at all (O.J. Simpson).

After incorporating it into his stand-up routine, he included the song on his 1996 comedy album, What the Hell Happened to Me? Since then, he has written two follow-ups to the song, each with a new list of celebs.

Celebrities referenced in Part I (in order of appearance): David Lee Roth, James Caan, Kirk Douglas, Dinah Shore, Bowzer (John Bauman) from Sha Na Na, Arthur Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), Paul Newman, Goldie Hawn, Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the owner of the Seattle Supersonics (Barry Ackerley), O.J. Simpson, Rod Carew, Ann Landers, Dear Abby (Pauline Phillips), Harrison Ford, Ebenezer Scrooge, The Three Stooges, and Tom Cruise.

Celebrities referenced in Part II (from the album Stan & Judy's Kid): Winona Ryder, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, the girls from Veruca Salt (Nina Gordon and Louise Post), The Beastie Boys, Lenny Kravitz, Courtney Love, Harvey Keitel, Jennifer Beals, Yasmine Bleeth, Dustin Hoffman, O.J. Simpson, the guy who does the voice for Scooby Doo (Don Messick), Bob Dylan, Mary Tyler Moore's husband (Dr. Robert Levine), Tiger Woods, Happy Gilmore, and Bruce Springsteen.

Celebrities referenced in Part III (from the Eight Crazy Nights soundtrack): Ross (David Schwimmer), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Lenny's pal Squiggy (David L. Lander), Debra Messing, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Jerry Lewis, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Tom Arnold, Deuce Bigelow (Rob Schneider), Willie Nelson's harmonica player (Mickey Raphael), Osama bin Laden, Sarah Hughes, Harry Houdini, David Blaine, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Connelly, Lou Reed, Perry Farrell, Beck, Paula Abdul, Joey Ramone, and Natalie Portman.

During live performances of Part I, Sandler would often alter the line "Drink your gin and tonic-ah, but don't smoke marijuan-icah" from the final verse to "Drink your gin and tonic-ah, and smoke your marijuan-icah," which is included on the uncut album version. While some radio edits completely cut both versions of the line, the uncut version surprisingly gets the most radio airplay.

This song was released as a single in 1995, making #10 US. It became a seasonal favorite, fitting in well on Christmas playlists as a quirky alternative. The song charted again in each of the next three years, reaching these positions:
1996: #46
1997: #25
1998: #80

During this run, Sandler had some of his most popular movies in theaters: Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998).

Neil Diamond covered this for his 2009 album, A Cherry Cherry Christmas, with some altered lyrics. Instead of "Tom Cruise isn't Jewish, but his agent is," Diamond sings, "Tom Cruise isn't Jewish, but Jesus Christ is."

Steve Carell spoofed this on The Office when he sang "The Diwali Song" during a Hindu Dwali festival, an annual autumn celebration, in the season three episode "Diwali."

The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man

The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brothers And Sisters
Released: 1973

Ramblin' Man Lyrics

[Chorus]
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man,
Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can.
And when it's time for leavin',
I hope you'll understand,
That I was born a ramblin' man.

Well my father was a gambler down in Georgia,
He wound up on the wrong end of a gun.
And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin' down highway 41.

[Chorus]

I'm on my way to New Orleans this mornin',
Leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee,
They're always having a good time down on the bayou,
Lord, them Delta women think the world of me.

[Chorus]

Lord, I was born a ramblin' man

Writer/s: BETTS, FORREST RICHARD
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is based on a 1951 Hank Williams song of the same title. It's about a guy whose travels take him to many places, and he takes life as it comes.

Allmans guitarist Dickey Betts wrote this in the house the band shared in Macon, Georgia. Betts sang lead on this track.

This was The Allman's first top 10 hit. The song came out after the death of guitarist and driving force Duane Allman. Although the band lost a major part of their sound, they showed they could still be successful without Duane. (thanks, Dee - Northfield, IL)

The original working title of the song was "Ramblin' Country Man." A heretofore unknown third verse was sung by Dickey Betts on his Instant Live CD released in 2004. (thanks, Dave - Madison, WI)

The band played this on the premiere of an ABC show called In Concert. It was their first national TV appearance, and also Berry Oakley's last performance, as the bass player died in a motorcycle accident a week later. The show aired after his death and was dedicated to him.

This was the last song Oakley recorded. He died in a motorcycle accident on November 11, 1972.

This was kept out of the #1 spot by Cher's "Half Breed." Gregg Allman married Cher in 1975.

A short part of this song appears in the 1973 movie The Exorcist. It's used in a bar scene when the priest is in the bar. (thanks, burak - Mersin, Turkey)

This song was referenced in the Nickelodeon Cartoon Hey Arnold! briefly and not by title, but by lyric. In the episode "The Journal," when discussion of the title Character's birth springs up, his grandmother responds, "I Thought he was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus going down highway 41." (thanks, Logan - Troy, MT)

Abigail Breslin - You Suck

Abigail Breslin - You Suck Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Single Release Only
Released: 2014

You Suck Lyrics

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American actress and singer Abigail Breslin wrote this song about her former boyfriend, 5 Seconds of Summer member Michael Clifford. Michael shared his initial reaction to the song on Twitter, where he wrote:

"Hahahahahahahahaha
Oh man
Hahahahahahahhahhahaahahahhahahahahahahahah."

The harsh lyrics mention a "dumb tattoo" and "bleachin' your hair." Michael discussed the song during an interview with Nova FM's Kent "Smallzy" Small, when the Aussie noted that he done indeed have tattoos and dyed hair. "I haven't spoken to her in a year," he said.

The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brothers And Sisters
Released: 1973

Jessica Lyrics

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Jessica is the name of guitarist Dickey Betts' daughter. He was working on this song when she crawled into the room and inspired him. Jessica Betts was born May 14, 1972 - she was one year old when her dad wrote the song.

Betts had Jessica with Sandy Bluesky, who also inspired one of his famous Allman Borthers songs: he wrote "Blue Sky" for her. The couple were married in 1973.

This is an instrumental song that had little chart success, but has endured as a staple of classic rock radio and a favorite among fans.

This is the theme song to the UK TV show Top Gear.

Chuck Leavell played piano on this. He was brought in after Duane Allman died to provide another lead instrument. It created a different sound, as the Allmans now had 1 piano and 1 guitar rather than 2 guitars.

Betts was trying to compose a song that could be played on the guitar with two fingers in the style of Django Reinhardt, a 1930s Jazz musician Betts admired who lost two fingers in a fire.

The Allman Brothers performed this on The Late Show with David Letterman on February 29, 1996.

A live recording was included on the album An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: 2nd Set in 1995. This version won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

When we spoke with Devon Allman , he offered some insight on why songs like this don't need lyrics. "'Flor D'Luna' by Santana, 'Jessica' by the Allman Brothers - these songs don't need words because that lead guitar is doing the talking and the singing. It's a strong enough melody to stand on its own. Words over that wouldn't make sense because it's already doing the speaking."

AC/DC - Hard Times

AC/DC - Hard Times Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rock or Bust
Released: 2014

Hard Times Lyrics

Feeling low
Going down slow
Make you quake
Make a body shake
Trying to hold you down
They can't push you around
They try to hold you back
Getting on the right track

Hard times
Blue and sad
Don't you cross the line
Run, run make it fun
Freeing up the time

Hidey plumping
Feet are jumping
This heart a loving
Keeps me running
They try to hold you down
But they can't push you around
Trying to hold you back
Getting on the right track

Hard times
Blue and sad
Don't you cross the line
Run, run make it fun
Freeing up the time
Hard times
Get on top
Follow me down the line
Hard times
Get online
Make a grown man blind

Hard times, these hard times
Sure ain't been good to me
Hard times, hard times
Sure been misery

Hard times
Blue and sad
Don't you cross the line
Run, run make it fun
Freeing up the time
Hard times
Get on time
Follow me down the line
Hard times
Get online
Make a grown man blind

Writer/s: JOHN ANGUS, ADAM PAQUETTE, ANDREW YOUNG, JAY EMMONS, BRETT EMMONS, CHRIS HUOT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, J. ALBERT & SON(INTERNATIONAL) PTY. LTD.
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Many of the songs on Rock or Bust find the Aussie veteran rockers recalling past memories. "Hard Times goes back to when we were younger and touring, and we didn't have much money," Angus Young told The Sun. "It's a good old song, rather than a modern day reflection."