And When I Die
Blood Sweat & Tears
1969
jaar
Top 40
Trivia
Arrangeur: Dick Halligan
Producer: James William Guerico
Het origineel is van:
1966: Peter, Paul & Mary (Bill Lee, Bass) (Producer: Albert B. Grossman) (Musical Director: Milton Okun) (Recording Engineer: Brooks Arthur) op de LP Album
[Warner Bros. WS 1648]
Cover-versie:
1967 Laura Nyro (Arranged and Conducted by: Herb Bernstein) (Produced by: Milt Okun) (Production Supervisor: Jerry Schoenbaum) (Production Assistant: Jean Goldhirsch) (Director of Engineering: Val Valentin) (Engineer: Harry Yarmark) op de LP: More Than a New Discovery
[Verve Folkways FT 3020]
Artiest
Titel A-kant
And When I Die
Lengte A-kant
3:26
Componist(en) A-kant
Laura Nyro
Producer(s) A-kant
James William Guerico
Titel B-kant
I Can't Quit Her
Lengte B-kant
3:38
Componist(en) B-kant
Al Kooper
Platenlabel
CBS
Catalogusnr
4491
Hoogste positie UK
--
Hoogste positie US
2
Album
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Tipparade
Songtekst
I'm not scared of dying,
And I don't really care.
If it's peace you find in dying,
Well then let the time be near.
If it's peace you find in dying,
And if dying time is here,
Just bundle up my coffin
'Cause it's cold way down there.
I hear that its cold way down their.
Yeah, crazy cold way down their.
[Chorus:]
And when I die, and when I'm gone,
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on,
to carry on.
Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well.
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.
Yes only my dying will tell.
Yeah, only my dying will tell.
[Chorus]
Give me my freedom for as long as I be.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me,
And all I ask of dying is to go naturally.
Oh I want to go naturally.
Here I go,
Hey Hey!
Here comes the devil,
Right Behind.
Look out children,
Here he comes!
Here he comes! Hey...
Don't want to go by the devil.
Don't want to go by demon.
Don't want to go by Satan,
Don't want to die uneasy.
Just let me go naturally.
and when I die,
When I'm dead, dead and gone,
There'll be one child born in our world to carry on,
To carry on.