Hats Off to (Led) Zeppelin
Album: Fits and Starts: Selections
By: Kevin Cryderman
By: Kevin Cryderman
Duration
5:10
Description
This is an acoustic blues homage to early Led Zeppelin’s own homages to early-twentieth-century Delta Blues artists such as Son House and Robert Johnson on Led Zeppelin III. The lyrics, a narrative constructed entirely out of Led Zeppelin song titles, tells the story of a ten-year interracial love affair in the early 1920s US South. Tracking him with horses and hounds in a rainstorm of epic proportions, a KKK lynch mob eventually catches up with him deep into a forest.
Lyrics
There’s been good times, bad times in the light, But a whole lotta love, baby, I thank you for your life. In the houses of the holy, your time is gonna come, Since I’ve been loving you, it’s been ten years gone. In the evening, poor Tom’s a fool in the rain, I’ve got to ramble on, but the song remains the same. There’s wearing and tearing, but it’s nobody’s fault but mine, Babe I’m gonna leave you, over black mountain side. She’s a black country woman, and she’s sick again. When the levee breaks I’ll take night flight over the hills and far away. She’s a living loving maid, but I’m dazed and confused. What is and what should never be, hey hey what can I do? Down by the seaside at the misty mountain hop. There’s a stairway to heaven and a candy store rock. I can’t quit you back, but I’m off to the gallows pole, In my time of dying, I’ve still got to rock and rock.
