T. Rex - Bolan's Blues

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{intro}
Was all married baby
Really hungry
Wow!

{verse 1}
Well my daddy said you came from salt lake
But i knew you came from l.a
Well my daddy said you came from salt lake
But i knew you came from l.a
I ain't so sophisticated
I just want to suck you in the hay

{verse 2}
Well i like when you wear brown boots
And i want you to wear your petticoat hard
I want you to wear your greasy brown boots
And i want you to wear your petticoat hard
I want you to strap me in armour baby
Baby, i don't want you to take me off guard
(oh no)

{verse 3}
I want you to wear that spiked hat
The one with the motorcycle handle, yeah
I want you to wear that spiky hat
The one you gave to marlon brando
It's all burnished with silver
And it's gilded with all the blood of your friends

{verse 4}
I'm feeling good for you, mamma
Please don't kill me in your bed
I'm feeling good for you, mamma
Please don't bleed me in your bed
I don't wanna die
I just wanna be sly
That's all

Guitar!
Wow!

{verse 5}
My friend's got a mansion
On st. germain boulevard
He calls himself an angel
But i know he don't work hard
He's a two-tone slider
He's like salvador dali's bodyguard

{verse 6}
Oh he's the king of the jungle
He's a wild lion-tiger man
Yeah he's the king of the jungle, baby
He's a wild sugar man
He's got no eyeballs
And he's got 14 golden hands

{verse 7}
He's my king and i love him
And you know i love the way he walks
He's the king of the jungle, baby
You know i love the way he walks
With his breastplate armour, you know
He finds it very hard to talk

Wow!

{verse 8}
I wanna slide in the attic
I wanna slap you upon my brazen bed
I wanna slide in your attic
I wanna, i wanna slap hard on my brazen bed
I wanna lay between your thighs
And have you lay upon my head

This is
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{verse 9}
I was born in the lightning
And i wanna be an old man
I was born in the lightning
And i want to be an old man
It's so hard for you, baby
To possibly understand
It's not that you're weak in the brain at all

{verse 10}
I'm from the wild galaxy
The one they call 64-09
I'm from the wild galaxy
The one they call 64-09
I love the way you walk, baby
But you have no sense of my time, alright

Well i'm a sharp operat

Release Date: June 15, 2024

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Singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan, accompanied by multi-percussionist Steve Took, formed Tyrannosaurus Rex as a psychedelic folk duo in 1967. They seemlingly got their name from Ray Bradbury’s short story “A Sound of Thunder”.

Science fiction, nursery rhymes and most of all, high fantasy books such as The Chronicles of Narnia set the tone of Bolan’s lyrics, fitting perfectly with the acoustic-guitar and creative percussion of the music. The duo released three albums and four singles in 1968 and 1969, and achieved some success in the UK underground, having then rising radio personality John Peel as a fan and two time collaborator of the band (as narrator of some wild child stories featuring in two of the Tyrannosaurus' albums).

Creative differences made the duo split apart and Took was replaced by Mickey Finn in 1969. By then it became clear that Bolan was the band. Starting with the single “King of the Rumbling Spires”, they started experimenting with electric guitars, bass and full drum kits, and within a year, transitioned into a whole new band, less hippie and more glam, now going bt the abbreviation T. Rex. Lyrics also became simpler and more sexually oriented, although Bolan never lost it’s childish wonder and flair.

And then the band’s success sky-rocketed, right at the start of the glam craze. Between 1970’s “Ride a White Swan” and 1973’s “The Groover”, T. Rex had a run of 11 singles ranked in the top 10, encountering a popularity in the UK unseen since the demise of the Beatles.

Many T. Rex songs of that era – such as “Children Of The Revolution”, “20th Century Boy”, “Get It On” – became close to modern rock standards, having being covered by numerous artists. Electric Warrior received critical acclaim as a pioneering album of glam rock and it’s follow-up, The Slider, allowed the band to break into the top 5 in the USA.

Although Bolan kept his super star status until the end of his short life, the apex of “T. Rextasy” was fleeting, and by 1974, the band wasn’t seeing the same popularity or critical acclaim. Bolan, by then allegedly had became addicted to cocaine and quite disconnected from the world. Feeling that glam had run its course, tried his hand at soul music and disco music, and even got his own TV show.

In 1976, Marc Bolan started flirting with the rising punk scene, but unfortunately, he never got the chance to reinvent himself again, as, in 1977, Bolan died in a car accident a few months after releasing T. Rex’s final studio album, Dandy in the Underworld. Since then, T. Rex have continued to exert a large influence over a variety of subsequent artists.