Ego Rock lyrics

Song information

Artist: Janis Joplin
Album: Joplin In Concert

Lyrics

Let's go, let's go let's go let's go. peter you start it. richard, you start it. somebody start it

I just had to get out on the texas plane
Lord, well it was bringing me down
Yeah, I had to get out of texas, baby
Lord, it was bringing me down
I been all around the world
But port arthur is the worst place that I've ever found

I guess they couldn't understand it there
Honey, they'd laugh me off the street!
Lord, I guess they couldn't understand me, baby
Honey, they'd laugh, I said they'd laugh me right off the street, yeah
I said I want to keep on moving, baby
Be the last person I ever wanna meet

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Honey ain't it hard when you're all alone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Honey ain't it hard, lord, when you're all alone
I might die real old lady
But I'd never call texas my home
No, no, no, oh!

You say you come from texas, baby
She says she left texas with just her name
(That's what she told me.)
Yes she's from texas I tell you
She says she left texas with just her name
Yes, well I swear when that girl came to the big city
Lord, she learned a brand new game
Well, yeah!

Honey, I hear you talkin' about sorrow
Baby but you don't know my pain — that's right!
Mercy! mercy!
I hear you talking about my sorrow
You don't know my pain
You know there's an inside kind of sorrow
Lord, the women are always singin' the blues
All right, all right motherfucker, you sing!

You know i, I dealt the ace to the queen
You know I played scrabble with l.b.j
Yes, I dealt an ace to the queen
Didn't I'll tell ya i's playin' scrabble with l.b.j
Well, I don't care what the name of the game is, baby, I tell you
I always seem to get my way

I used to be a doggone fool
Fall for a woman's story every time
— but no more, I swear —
Well, I used to be a, be a doggone fool
Fall for that old woman's story every time
Yes i, I'm a big boy now
Yeah, they gotta come up with some kind of heavy line
Well, well, yeah!

Sounds like I found the man
Who could take care of my time
It ain't me babe, it ain't me babe!
It appears to me that I found a man
That could take care of my time
Well, I got my own trouble, I got my own car
I got my own little lady, I got my hotel
Oh what are you talking about!
Don't try to take it!
Somebody talks as fine as he does
Oughta be able to take care of
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

Woman, woman, it just makes me mad
Ahh! ahh! woman, yeah
Woman
Yeah
Woman
Yeah
Woman
Yeah
Woman
Yeah, yeah
It just makes me mad
Oh man — shit, man..
Yes she played me for the fool I tell ya
Yes and I've got to love every man she's ever had, yeah

If I found a man who could put me down the way you do
— I mean so handy-like, you know what I mean ?
Yeah, I found a man, whoa, who could put me down the way you do
— I mean so easy like it was second nature, y'know what I mean, man ?
Ah maybe that man could help me
At least, honey I thought I would give you a chance
I said i, what I said I could try after the, after the show tonight maybe uh ..

I'm just a working man, you know
Ha ha ha ha, you don't work too hard, baby!
You know I ain't no hollywood star
— I'm not joe namath, you know
I read about that in the papers today —
You know I'm just a working man
You don't work too hard, baby!
I never ran in a football game 200 yards
Ha ha ha ha ha, that's the kinda man I like, that's the kinda man I like
But you know I can take care of those country girls
Well I can mess around in that farm-yard
Lord, lord, whoaah!!

Ha ha ha! ha. whew! whew! wow! that's getting a little too close, too heavy here. that's nick gravenites, that was a tune called ego rock. no! ..

All right, rock, rock & roll song

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