Small Faces 출신의 실력있는 보컬리스트 스티브 매리엇과 피터 프램턴의 만남으로도 영국에서는 큰 호응을 얻었던 전설적인 록 밴드 험블 파이의 베스트 앨범. 헤비 록보다는 주로 어쿠스틱한 스타일의 음악을 연주한 탓에 미국에서는 그다지 빛을 보지 못했던 험블 파이지만 영국 록 히스토리를 얘기할 때 빼놓을 수 없는 그룹이기도 하다. 이 음반은 이들의 Immediate 레코드 시절의 음원을 중심으로 선곡된 베스트 앨범으로 비공개 스튜디오 잼 세션 음원과 위스키 고고에서 가졌던 라이브 실황이 담겨있다.
There she is again steppin' out of her limousine, well Looking like the cover of a twenty-dollar magazine She's got it where you find it, if you know what I mean She's a natural born woman A natural born woman She's a natural born woman
There she is again watch her stop the Main Street in its tracks Looking like Creole queen, hair hangin' down her back I say, don't look too long, boy, she'll make your glasses crack She's a natural born woman A natural born woman Natural born woman
Get your track
Yeah, natural born woman Yeah, yeah... Natural born woman Yeah, yeah... She's a natural born woman
Well, I'm sweatin' and I'm shakin' when I'm bringin' you the news You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes That's why I'm standin' here today preachin' natural born woman blues Well, she's a natural born woman Well, yeah, natural born woman Well, yeah, natural born woman
Well, I'm looking out my back door wonderin' which place to go Think I'll move on down to Memphis, pay my money to see a rock 'n' roll show Find me a sweet-heart Susie, together we can lose control Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah She's a natural born woman Yeah, yeah, natural born woman Yeah, natural born woman Yeah, ooh Ooh All right Ooh
Here I am with dust in my pants I don't know what to do Been on the road for almost a week I just wanna be with you Makes no difference where I am Feeling hard to breathe If I thought you felt the same Wouldn't be so bad for me Thought I know all about it from the start Took a short cut to nowhere To make it feel alright Got to cut this travelling out I hate sayin' goodbye We leave the day we arrive Or I'll wanna know why Crowing closer, comin' in out of the dark Here I am with dust in my pants I don't know what to do Been on the road for almost a week I just wanna be with you
Can I face tomorrow With the news you bring me My soul feels cold like ice A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me I felt our thing change From love to something else How can it plague my mind A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me I shall find myuself But I must have the time To sow the seeds of something new Farmer plough the field Harvest all you can A corn field smells so sweet A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me But to follow the weaver of dreams Behind the sun that knows, it seems that I am foresworn - a naked troubadour I sit at court and I sing To the Princess of Beauty and Light She favours me though I'm merely A minstrel of the night There on my right Sits the King with his clowns He pays to laugh While his queen lives on downs And the smile on his brow is the crown Morning bird sing, fill my ears With the joy of our sorrow unmasked Lend me your wings for the sunrays of dawn Are here to last I take my leave, as I leave I must take All I have seen in my dream - then I wake And it is as safe as yesterday is
Here's your news report I'm your straight face for today Sorry if it's short But I have to get away And be sick First the powers that be Line their pockets with your bread And it's not too hard to see That you're worth more to them dead Don't you know the taxman Mourns you to the nearest bank You're news report You're news report And it's short, short, short I want to know why people die Because they've been forgotten It's you callin' fallin' And if you're young, son, you're the one To lead us into Hades And if you're shot dead, then you're called brave As they shove you down your grave And nothing is saved While you're growing fat Wiping gravy off your sleeve There's a child who like a rat Would cry and beg for what you leave Oh but you won't be deceived by what you fear And you can't be diseased by what you fear You're news report You're news report And it's short, short, short
You smell like a field Cow-shirt in midsummer sun I must have been mad But I gave you all the bread that I had Your mother's a freak She made me weak in my knees You're under her thumb Why don't you pack your bags and run Isn't it sad I pity you now I'm not there I hope you pull through But you're locked in your social zoo I tried to re-arrange your head And show you where you were But you were too sick Then your mother bust her guf And tried to make me think like her But I was too quick You thought I was hooked Showing me off to your friends Wearing me like a badge Was the only kick you ever had Please shave your legs Put down that horse and behave I seen it before I ain't never gonna see it no more You whole domestick scene And the way your life was run Made me so sick That a nifty little number like you Could show anyone a few tricks
Thinking of the past I feel my life Is slipping by at such a speed Things I knew have gone and those I loved I look for granted and deceived Call me anything you will I'll hide behind a purple pill And though it seems I'm laughing still I'm crying Looking from my window I see winter Almost too bare to believe People change with seasons And I wonder if it's my turn to receive But they avoid the things I ask Or quickly change their style of mask The faith I had is fading fast I'm dying Seems to me the only way to be Is like a business man And have bad colours round my head Getting drunk to find some peace of mind and consolation But there's still the problem of what happens when I'm dead
When I was just a kid back in Abeline I had to use a gun, well for my own sake I shot a man down when I was just eighteen And from that day they call me Shaky Jake.
Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake.
Ma says I was born under bad sign I was lookin' for the chance to make or break I cut my teeth on a brandin' iron I'm the devil's own son, I'm Shaky Jake.
Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake.
I keep on the run now I travel by night I don't need anyone But someone, one day, somewhere's gonna see me right.
Dig a hole about six foot deep Pray the Lord my soul to take I don't want flowers and nobody's gonna weep Here lies that outlaw, Shaky Jake.
Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake.
Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake.
The last time I saw her, she was waving me goodbye She swore no other boy would take my place I took a Mississippi Queen through New Orleans and down the Bayou I hoped to find my destiny, my fortune and my face.
Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know She'll never know, never know.
I stayed around, I played around with all those Southern belles But they took away my money and my pride I had no place to go and the rest you know darn well Living out the gutter ain't so easy to describe.
But I still had my guitar, so I joined a dirty band Working in a smoky downtown bar When comes along this big wheel with a contract in his hand Said : 'Put your mark along here boy, I'm gonna make you a rock'n'roll star'.
Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know Never know, never know.
Well the years have come and gone and I was passing through to find That my home town was still the same to see Well, the memory I had of her had crumbled from my mind I really didn't think she'd still be waiting here for me.
Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know She'll never know, never know.
Mmm ...
If I can get out now, she'll never know Never know, never know Never know, never know Never know.