Janis Joplin - Joplin In Concert

Ego Rock Lyrics

by Janis Joplin
Album: Joplin In Concert (1989)



Lets go, lets go lets go lets go. peter you start it. richard, you start it. somebody start it.

I just had to get out on the texas plane,
Lord, well it was bringing me down.
Yeah, I had to get out of texas, baby,
Lord, it was bringing me down.
I been all around the world,
But port arthur is the worst place that Ive ever found.

I guess they couldnt understand it there,
Honey, theyd laugh me off the street!
Lord, I guess they couldnt understand me, baby,
Honey, theyd laugh, I said theyd laugh me right off the street, yeah.
I said I want to keep on moving, baby,
Be the last person I ever wanna meet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Honey aint it hard when youre all alone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Honey aint it hard, lord, when youre all alone.
I might die real old lady
But Id never call texas my home,
No, no, no, oh!

You say you come from texas, baby,
She says she left texas with just her name.
(thats what she told me.)
Yes shes from texas I tell you,
She says she left texas with just her name.
Yes, well I swear when that girl came to the big city
Lord, she learned a brand new game.
Well, yeah!

Honey, I hear you talkin about sorrow,
Baby but you dont know my pain thats right!
Mercy! mercy!
I hear you talking about my sorrow,
You dont know my pain.
You know theres an inside kind of sorrow
Lord, the women are always singin the blues.
All right, all right motherfucker, you sing!

You know i, I dealt the ace to the queen,
You know I played scrabble with l.b.j.
Yes, I dealt an ace to the queen,
Didnt Ill tell ya is playin scrabble with l.b.j.
Well, I dont care what the name of the game is, baby, I tell you
I always seem to get my way.

I used to be a doggone fool,
Fall for a womans story every time.
but no more, I swear
Well, I used to be a, be a doggone fool,
Fall for that old womans story every time.
Yes i, Im a big boy now,
Yeah, they gotta come up with some kind of heavy line.
Well, well, yeah!

Sounds like I found the man
Who could take care of my time.
It aint me babe, it aint me babe!
It appears to me that I found a man
That could take care of my time.
Well, I got my own trouble, I got my own car,
I got my own little lady, I got my hotel,
Oh what are you talking about!
Dont try to take it!
Somebody talks as fine as he does
Oughta be able to take care of
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Woman, woman, it just makes me mad.
Ahh! ahh! woman, yeah,
Woman,
Yeah,
Woman,
Yeah,
Woman,
Yeah,
Woman,
Yeah, yeah,
It just makes me mad
Oh man shit, man...
Yes she played me for the fool I tell ya
Yes and Ive got to love every man shes ever had, yeah.

If I found a man who could put me down the way you do
I mean so handy-like, you know what I mean ?
Yeah, I found a man, whoa, who could put me down the way you do,
I mean so easy like it was second nature, yknow what I mean, man ?
Ah maybe that man could help me
At least, honey I thought I would give you a chance
I said i, what I said I could try after the, after the show tonight maybe uh ...

Im just a working man, you know
Ha ha ha ha, you dont work too hard, baby!
You know I aint no hollywood star.
Im not joe namath, you know,
I read about that in the papers today
You know Im just a working man
You dont work too hard, baby!
I never ran in a football game 200 yards
Ha ha ha ha ha, thats the kinda man I like, thats the kinda man I like.
But you know I can take care of those country girls
Well I can mess around in that farm-yard.
Lord, lord, whoaah!!

Ha ha ha! ha. whew! whew! wow! thats getting a little too close, too heavy here. thats nick gravenites, that was a tune called ego rock. no! ...

All right, rock, rock & roll song.


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