Spill the Wine

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Eric Burdon & the Animals

The Animals (also billed as Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The Animals are known for their deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon and for their gritty, bluesy sound, exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single "The House of the Rising Sun" as well as by hits such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down", "I'm Crying", "See See Rider" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". They balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm-and-blues-oriented album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US. The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s, and suffered from poor business management, leading t… more »

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1991

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Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 

I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day 
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest 
in a big field of tall grass 
I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face 

And I fell asleep and dreamed 
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie 
And that I was the star of the movie 
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, 
an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome 
should be the star of a Hollywood movie 

But there I was, I was taken to a place, the hall of the mountain kings 
I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world 
In front of every kind of girl, there was 
black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones... 

Out of the middle came a lady 
She whispered in my ear something crazy 
She said: 

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 

(spoken:) 

I thought to myself what could that mean 
Am I going crazy or is this just a dream 
Now, wait a minute 
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere 
so it's all in my head 
and then.. I heard her say one more time: 

(sung:) 

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 

(spoken:) 
I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back 
As she disappeared, but soon she returned 
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass 
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass 
And raised it to her lips 
And just before she drank it, she said: 

(sung:) 
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl 
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

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