Mother Earth

About Mother Earth

"Mother Earth" is a blues song recorded by Memphis Slim in 1951. A slow twelve-bar blues, it is one of Slim's best-known songs and reached number seven in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951."Mother Earth" features an unusual descending chromatic figure and an often-quoted chorus: Although an early review called it a "Blues moralizer, with group harmonizing in back of Slim's chanting, [having] a haunting effect, but [it] is on the tedious side", it has been described as "an uncommonly wise down-tempo blues" and "one of the finest down-tempo blues songs ever recorded". Memphis Slim recorded several studio and live versions of the song during his career. Several artists have recorded "Mother Earth". The 1960s San Francisco band Mother Earth, which featured the vocals of Tracy Nelson, took their name from the song. They showcased the song on their 1968 album Living with the Animals. Eric Burdon & War included the song as part of the "Blues for Memphis Slim" medley for their 1970 debut album Eric Burdon Declares "War". In 1995, an edited version retitled "Mother Earth", was released on The Best of Eric Burdon and War.  more »

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1994

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Mother Earth is waitin’ for you, yes she is
She is big and she’s round
And it’s cold way down in the ground

You may not be happy all the time
You may never be that way
Mother Earth is waitin’ for you
For that debt you’ve got to pay

Don’t care how big you are
I don’t care what you were
When it all is up
You’ve got to go back to Mother Earth

You could be blasé with life
Only make love to foreign girls
You may have a little jet, baby
And fly all around the world

Don’t care how big you are
I don’t care what you were
When it all is up
You’ve got to go back to Mother Earth
She is waitin’ for you
Yea

When it all is up
You got to go back
Way back to Mother Earth, yes

I feel so bad, oh, all I can do is sing these blues, yea
When it all is up
You’ve got to go back to Mother Earth
Oh baby you hear what I say?

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Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter best known as a member and vocalist of R&B band The Animals, and the funk band War and for his aggressive stage performance. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. more »

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