Janis Lyn Joplin era nata a Port Arthur (USA) il 19 gennaio 1943 e si avvicinò alla musica blues fin da piccola. Esordì nel 1967 con la band Big Brother and the Holding Company , partecipando nel solito anno al Festival Pop di Monterey.
Dopo l’ incisione dell’ album Cheap Thrills, nel 1969 Janis scelse di fare la carriera solista, facendosi accompagnare dalla Kozmic Blues Band, con cui pubblicò l’ album I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!.
La sua grande presenza scenica, oltre che la sua inimitabile voce, furono immortalate al Festival di Woodstocke del 1969.
Purtroppo il 4 ottobre 1970 fu trovata morta in un Hotel di Hollywood, a seguito di una overdose di eroina.
Sono passati 46 anni dalla sua morte, ma la sua voce e la sua musica non temono il passare del tempo.
Per ricordare il suo grande talento, ho pensato di postarvi la canzone “Cry Baby“, con il testo ed il video.
Il brano è contenuto nell’ album Pearl, uscito postumo nel gennaio 1971.
Testo: Janis Joplin – Cry Baby
Cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Honey, welcome back home.
I know she told you,
Honey I know she told you that she loved you
Much more than I did,
But all I know is that she left you,
And you swear that you just don’t know why,
But you know, honey I’ll always,
I’ll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh honey, welcome back home.
Don’t you know, honey,
Ain’t nobody ever gonna love you
The way I try to do?
Who’ll take all your pain,
Honey, your heartache, too?
And if you need me, you know
That I’ll always be around if you ever want me
Come on and cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby,
Oh daddy, like you always saying to do.
And when you walk around the world, babe,
You said you’d try to look for the end of the road,
You might find out later that the road’ll end in Detroit,
Honey, the road’ll even end in Kathmandu.
You can go all around the world
Trying to find something to do with your life, baby,
When you only gotta do one thing well,
You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe.
You got a woman waiting for you there,
All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman
And that’ll be the end of the road, babe,
I know you got more tears to share, babe,
So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
And cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby.
And if you ever feel a little lonely, dear,
I want you to come on, come on to your mama now,
And if you ever want a little love of a woman
Come on and baby baby baby babe babe baby now
Cry baby yeah.
Video Youtube: Janis Joplin – Cry Baby (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPq3UaCLpg
