David Johansen - Somebody Buy Me A Drink
The other night, I was on Skid Row
By a liquor store sign's garrish glow;
I saw a fellow I used to know a long, long time ago.
He stood with the lost, with the living dead,
With rumpled clothes and a reeling head,
Reviewing the wasted life he'd lead, and as I passed he said,
"Let me tell you a story that's sad but true
About someone who just may remind you of you
Let me tell you a tale that may help you awake a woozy head -
Somebody buy me a drink.
"It begins long ago on a happy day,
With a fool who was loved, but threw it all away,
Who exchanged a good home for a flophouse, a bar and a plank -
Somebody buy me a drink.
(Bridge:)
"Well, to see me today, when I have hit the skids,
Who would think I once had a fine wife and kids?
Yes, I was that fool, after treasure and pleasure,
And love was just a game played with some other dame.
"Now there's only one thing I feel certain of:
The only true treasure in life is love.
Without someone to love and love you, see how low you can sink?
Somebody buy me a drink,
Somebody, somebody, buy me a drink."
2000 년에 발표 된 David Johansen과 Harry Smiths 는 David Johansen 이
"해리 스미스"와 함께 발표 한 두 편의 앨범 중 첫 번째 앨범입니다.
데이비드 요한슨 (David Johansen)은 뉴욕시 클럽에서 1990 년대 후반에 일어난
민속촌을 따라 앨범을 만들었습니다.
Johanen은 음악 학자 해리 에버렛 스미스 (Harry Everett Smith) 의 미국 민속 음악 선집
(Antilology of American Folk Music) (1920 년대와 1930 년대의 국가와 블루스
녹음본)의 1997 년 재발에 힘 입어 자신의 밴드 "해리 스미스"를 지명하고,
함께 활동합니다.
이 앨범은 1984 년 David Johansen이 버터 포 인텍 스터 (Buster Poindexter)를 떠난 후
처음으로 녹음되었으며 그의 진짜 이름으로 앨범을 녹음하기 시작했습니다
