Posted on 02/15/2019 5:35:38 PM PST by Drew68
Except for the many credible allegations that John Lennon actually was a wife beater.
What? No Rolling Stones???
Well, "Love IS a Battlefield", after all.
Yeah, best go back to that street rap.
The only one I can think of is Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.
“Bang, bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon her head...”
I went back and listened, and you’re right, it’s mostly McCartney singing, with John joining in. But Lennon said he wrote that line about his relationships pre-Yoko. Why he stopped at Yoko, I’ll never know.
I recently revisited some old Stones and chuckled at the lyrics to "Under My Thumb" thinking, "This sure wouldn't fly today!"
I still wonder how John got six bullets in the chest, and Chapman couldn’t bother to spare one for Yoko.
In a 1980 interview in Playboy with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon, when asked about the song, said that the song’s lyrics came personally from his own experience abusing women in relationships in the past. He states: “It is a diary form of writing. All that ‘I used to be cruel to my woman / I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved’ was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically—any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything’s the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”
It's interesting that black entertainers have largely been given a pass by the #MeToo movement. It's almost as if liberals respect masculinity in blacks while demanding that white men be emasculated and feminized.
Hello? did you read the lyrics?
“I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and....”
i beat her sounds like it means hit-physical, imo.
In the morning
Don't say you love me
'Cause I'll only kick you out of the door
I know your name is Rita
'Cause your perfume smelling sweeter
Since when I saw you down on the floor, guitar
You won't need to much persuading
I don't mean to sound degrading
But with a face like that
You got nothing to laugh about
Red lips hair and fingernails
I hear your a mean old Jezebel
Let's go up stairs and read my tarot cards, c'mon
Yea I'll pay your cab fare home
You can even use my best cologne
Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up, c'mon honey
Sit down, get up, get down
So funny you posted this! I have one like it, and it is in my son’s room. I love it!
puleeze spare me.... female rockers like Janis Joplin or even the the Go-Gos would do things with the “guys” just to ‘have fun’. It’s sex, drugs and rock and roll.....
I love the pearl clutching by the liberals eating their own.
The story is not too nice, but the lyrics are great.
They fit the song and the Rockin’ Blues delivery.
As though sung from a Bar room floor.
I doubt if Rod himself wrote them.
I can imagine Tina Turner singing a song like this one, maybe 40 years ago. Just a few lyric changes. She lived the life too, unfortunately.
Ike was very violent with Tina for many years.
Why she stayed with him, I couldn’t explain.
Her real character must have been the opposite of her bold and brassy stage presence.
I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs
I know you’re no scare-eyed honey
There’ll be a feast if you just come upstairs
But it’s no hanging matter
It’s no capital crime
I can see that you’re fifteen years old
No I don’t want your I.D.
And I’ve seen that you’re so far from home
But it’s no hanging matter
It’s no capital crime
Oh yeah, you’re a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don’tcha scratch like that
Oh yeah, you’re a strange stray cat
Bet your mama don’t know you scream like that
I bet your mother don’t know you can spit like that.
You look so weird and you’re so far from home
But you don’t really miss your mother
Don’t look so scared I’m no mad-brained bear
But it’s no hanging matter
It’s no capital crime
Oh, yeah
Woo!
I bet…
Love the pyrolusite! The barite ain’t bad either.
You can say that again!
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