Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers (Official Audio)
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- "Dead Flowers" from Townes Van Zandt's album Roadsongs
Listen/Purchase: townesvanzandt.ffm.to/roadson...
Lyrics:
And when you're sitting there
In your silk upholstered chair,
Talking to some rich folks that you know,
Well, I hope you don't see me
In my ragged company
All that you know, I could never be alone,
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground,
Send me dead flowers every morning,
Send me dead flowers by the mail,
Send me dead flowers to my wedding,
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave,
And when you're sitting back
In your rose pink Cadillac,
Making bets on Kentucky Derby days,
I'll be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon,
And another girl to take my pain away
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground,
Send me dead flowers every morning,
Send me dead flowers by the mail,
Send me dead flowers to my wedding,
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave,
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground,
Send me dead flowers every morning,
Send me dead flowers by the mail,
Send me dead flowers to my wedding,
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
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#TownesVanZandt #TVZ #Roadsongs - Hudba
"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners."
And Townes abides too, somewhere. Like we all do.
❤
So funny, looked at the song credits for the movie and that's how I got here. Kind of like the dude, figuring shit out.
@@jerardnorgren3411what movie?
@@Haadi42The Big Lebowski
My father died today, I loved him. We will abide. ❤
I hope you're holding up okay.
@@lukeskelton6479 Thanks, man. It's tough, nobody can replace him. Atleast the rest of the family is alive and helping each other out.
My condolences for you and your family man
@@jesuscm1398 Thank you. 🕊️
God be good to him
Thank you, Coen Brothers! The Dude abides!
They put Townes music in alot of their films
@@danielmims8467 I literally just came on here to make the same statement haha
Good knowledge bud 👍🏽
@@patrickswayze2596 here's a cover by the dude playing "to live is to fly"
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@@danielmims8467 wow, I know Jeff Bridges is a great musician, which he proved in that film (can’t think of the name)‘with Collin Farrell, they do a duet from the film, I think it’s Called ‘fallin and flyin’?
Collin Farrell is a great country singer also.
But this is special! Thank you kindly for sharing my brother 👊🏽
Coen*.
About 12 years ago, I sang this on stage with my friend Willie a couple of times. I was having a bad time, and I wish I had realized that he was too. I moved out of the country a couple of months later. In 2017 I learned he committed suicide. I'm sorry, Willie. Thanks for singing with me.
God bless you two❤
Sorry to hear about that and your loss and everybody's else's loss who knew him. I just seein this channel for 1st time today. I didn't know it existed until now anyway yeah, I'm the one who asked about the chords, he'll if I could do what you guys did with it even one time that would be great
❤
Cheers to Willie. My next scotch is for him.
Having a drink for Willie!
takin her easy for all us sinners
The Dude brought most of us here
That Dude really tied the comments section together, did he not?
This song expresses genuine deep sadness and pain. Townes Van Zandt lived the pain this song. He plays it, expresses it, and sings it beautifully with deep soul.
While Townes actually didn't write this song, the Rollin Stones actually did, I agree with you, he sings it from a place of great sorrow that Mick and Kieth could never play from.
@@glennbasilii552 I agree with Marcus agreeing with you haha
Stones may have wrote it but Townes made it his just like Johnny Cash made ‘Hurt’ his convincing even NIN fans that he wrote it and as with so many other bands doing the same thing. John Prine making Blaze Foleys ‘Clay Pigeons’ his own and STILL many of his own fans don’t know he didn’t write it and then only a small percentage of them know who Blaze Foley actually is.
Cool comments fellas 👍🏽
@@patrickswayze2596 while I like John Prine as well as Blaze I gotta go with Blazes version of Clay Pigeons. Blaze was amazing and I love his music as much as I love Townes and Guy Clark
@@glennbasilii552 especially the version something like ‘live in the Austin Outhouse’ or something?
That version, that key, that dirty old recording, it’s just perfect in all its imperfections.
Prines version was a different style of country to Blaze, Townes, and other country singers who vary like Merle Haggard also, they all had such different styles but often covered their opposites songs and always with the respect and self take on that version…
@@glennbasilii552 Gram Parsons girlfriend, unable to get to a Stones show sent them flowers by air freight,they froze in the hold , hence Dead Flowers,
Woke up with this legendary song playing in my mind...
Such a mellow sound.
Big fan of your work Mr. Paine
I remember around 1981 or so, when Willy and Waylon did Pancho and Lefty, my Dad schooled me about Townes Van Zandt. The Old Man's been gone a while, and while he was career Navy, Vietnam vet, and one of the hardest working men I've ever met, I drifted into drugs and crime. I've been clean for a while now, and every day I gain a deeper appreciation for everything he taught me about music. For a high school dropout that fled the reservation for the Navy at 17 in 1955, that man knew more about American music than some Berkeley (Boston music college) professors I've met. I'll be playing my acoustic for him and Mom Sunday, where they rest near the pond where I grew up. This will definitely be on the playlist.
May God speed you, friend.
God speed.
stay clean & yes, GODspeed
✝️
Your Dad sounds he was super cool. I think he'd understand and respect the road you've walked.
Waylon?
Roadsongs
Townes Van Zandt - vocals, acoustic guitar.
Owen Cody - fiddle.
Jimmie Gray - acoustic bass, vocals.
Mickey White - acoustic guitar.
Ruester Rowland - acoustic guitar.
I partied with Mickey a couple of weeks ago. He's still as sharp as he ever was.
And how sharp is that?
So cool! Love hearing stuff about the roots on deep tracks like this. That dude, your friend, must have the most intimate connection with this song. Thing is, how they made me feel the song is for me. So powerful.
Well, sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar.......hey man!
I was wondering if I'd see you again.
I think the dude summons the stranger by quoting him. Surreal perfection.
credits to the chillest movie ever, best version
Great version. It only reminds me how great the original is. Kudos to Rolling Stones for so many legendary songs, including this one.
Stones the best country/western band from England haha. Great rendition.
How could anyone dislike this?! Townes was an eclectic fucking Genius.
Great ending song for Big Lebowski
Perfect...
My favorite rendition of the song, all performers considered.
I'm a three-time winner of Best Walter at LebowskiFests in L.A., NYC, L.A. in 2005-2007. My heir has instructions to scatter my ashes at the Sunken City in San Pedro. But he should wait for off-shore winds. And I got to see Townes play locally in Dallas several times, some with Guy Clark.
🫡
If this song isn't played at my funeral ..I'm not going ..
....dammit.
😂😂 that will be on my headstone splaining why I ain't there😊.
Makes me cry for those we lost
This song rides like a good horse. There when you truly need it.
The dude abides..
Dude
But that's just, like, your opinion maan
Yeaaa the dude abides
I believe he pre-dates the dude so Townes abides.
@@secondhandlyon2603 who?
Stones wrote it. And their version is great. But the heart, soul, and pain that this Van Zandt puts Into it is amazing.
Guns and Roses also do a good version.
According to Townes Van Zandt, Towned wrote it. Then he played it for Keith Richard, who went ahead and recorded it first. But they both did good versions, so not mad either
@@eastgermanautosThat is not a true story, but delusional Townes fans want to add validity to it. Townes is also on record saying “Dead Flowers” is the only song he wished he had written that he didn't. Instead of making folkloric stories about Townes and Gram Parsons, one can admit the obvious: Keith Richards is a great songwriter.
@@fuchsiaswing8545Correct. Lunatics
@@eastgermanautos I hadn't heard that. Interesting
Townes was one of the greatest
This song haunts my dreams. Whether it's the Stones or Townes version, I have to stop and listen to it. Beautifully written and performed. Yes. This will be one of the songs I want played at my Memorial Service (if one.)
THE DUDE ABIDES
My friend met Townes in Boulder, CO one day. He came through a hole in the fence to talk to her friend about something important. I'm not sure if he was playing there or in Denver but she said he was quite nice. She got me into him--well her and my deceased Mother. She always liked "If I needed You" the best. But his cover of "Dead Flowers" is inimitable.
The funny thing is , this isn't a cover . Townes claims that he played this Song for his friend Keith Richards one night when he was drunk , and before he knew it The Stones recorded it as their own Song . I believe Townes . He had a lot of demons but he wasn't a liar ....
@@craigjackson5903 i didn't know that. Thank you!
@@craigjackson5903 hadn't heard that before. Don't doubt it if Townes came out and said it tho.
Best cover in the World
Supposedly this isn't a cover. Alot of people that knew townes claim he wrote it. It certainly sounds like his writing more than the stones. Bob Dylan said Townes was the greatest songwriter he ever met. And he lived his life like what he wrote .
@@danielmims8467 I agree with Dylan, and with you (if i’m not lost in translation). TVZ released it 20 years after the RS’s one and switch the key from ‘D’ to ‘C’ wich gave the song a new dimension.
Supposedly, a lot of people... Let's anyone think whatever.
@@jpbaztan I met townes and Bob Dylan the same night. I was very young . But I know people that were very close to townes and it drove them all crazy that he just cared about the next great song he could write.
@@danielmims8467 No, Van Zant attributed the song to the Stones. This is absolutely nothing like Van Zant's composition style what so ever. I've seen others make blatant lies about how he wrote this song. Why? One guy even says Van Zant said it in BBC 1995 Solo Sessions. Which is also a lie.
@@danielmims8467Who cares what Bob Dylan, Bob Marley or Bob the Builder says? It’s clearly a Stones song. Lunatic Yanks trying to rewrite history, as per 🤣🫣
The Rolling Stones did a great cover of this song 🤙💯🇺🇸
You’re funny
realitycheck needs a reality check, Richard’s/Jagger wrote this song!
@@larryfolz594True, but I prefer this version myself.
@@larryfolz594 It was a joke brother , lighten up and stop being so hateful towards people. No one means you any harm.
I think Keith Richard's wrote it
And when you're sitting there
In your silk upholstered chair
Talking to some rich folks that you know
Well, I hope you don't see me
In my ragged company
All that you know, I could never be alone
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
And when you're sitting back
In your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby days
I'll be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
We know the words pal
Sometimes you need to read ‘em.
Thanks
Could be, I don't know, but it seems odd stealing a song and don't even change a single word of the Lyrics.
@@Adam-oc8cw I didn't post this for you. I wanted to sing along to the words while listening to it on my phone. I know you know them, but at the time, I didn't.
'Catch you later on down the trail.'
This one goes out to you, Ricky Dale "Cutter" Fowler. Somehow, I sense that you would like this song. To all of you out there who have given up hope and feel there's nothing left to live for/that no one would you, YOU'RE WRONG!! Cutter thought he had no one, but he left behind a beautiful little girl, his mom, a girlfriend, and countless friends. I would give ANYTHING to have a do-over of the last night I saw him alive. "If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find...a way." ~Johnny Cash.
The Stones sang like they were trying to make light of a rather mournful situation. Zant really sells how sad these two people are. This is the definitive performance of this song.
but that's the essence of the blues. i'm going to rejoice in my misery. i shall overcome. i shall not be moved. is it not? they're both fantastic interpretations, man. no hate here.
@@xxtemuxinxx far out, man.
Townes fans are weird. They want to think that the guy didn't have a satirical bone in his body-not true. He did, and the original Stones version is excellent.
"Lets go bowling"
Hahahahaha, I just finished watching this epic film
Such a great artist.
Best of all time
@@williamcole60 what about Blaze Foley?
How do you two feel about Blaze and his influence on music and some other bigger artists?
And just his influence in general I guess..?
@@patrickswayze2596 Blaze Foley is amazing
@@MasteringSilence an enigma of sorts. He reminds me kinda OF the Dude how he just lived his life his way.
Hope you’re happy and well where ever you are in this world ☺️
Rest in peace Justin.. Your dad is still proud.
Play this at my funeral.
Best song I ever heard
Calmer than you are.
Waving a fucking gun around ???
Thanks!
This guy, man!!!
Yah, Yah, the dude abides, but so does Townes Van Zandt, underated musical goddamn hero.. check out his other stuff.
Merry Christmas Townes. Love you buddy!
The Dude!
Magnifique!
❤️👏
I always see comments on music saying how they get reminded of a person and this is the one for me along with wild world by Yusuf/Cat Stevens. She made my life for the better part of a year and the whole time i was being played... she then went down a dark path i drew her out of twice... Now I don't think she'll ever speak to me again but i don't think I'll have a day i don't think about her again, i love her and i worry for her...
I sent her a Spotify link for this telling her about how i always think of the good days ....
So if you see this please don't shut me out, I've only ever wanted you to be safe, in your pink upholstered chair...
My heart weeps, adieu
king of the undergound 🍻
Ole Mickey White doing back up vocals and lead guitar.
Thank you he made the song
This song (much like The Dude) abides, man.
Take ‘er easy, Dude
Eine der besten Aufnahmen.
I saw him in Santa Cruz shortly before his unfortunate demise,im glad I did
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you
I hope one day I'll be asked why I don't write any happy songs.....
I'll probably reply as he did, those are the happy songs
Rest easy Steve
This feels like it could have either been an outtake or the lead-in to Jackson Browne’s “Running on Empty” album 🤷🏼♂️
I won't forget.
I gotta confess, I knew who Van Zandt was....but when I first heard this in " Lebowski" I actually thought it was Jeff Bridges singing!
That's a different movie
The dude abides
Love the Stones, but this version is more me lol
I know this is a Stones song but it'll always be Towne's song to me
Well , that all depends on who you believe !!! Townes said before he left this crazy world that he played this Song for Keith Richards one night , and Keith stole from him !!!! Now I do realize that Townes said a lot of things to throw people off , but I do think he wrote this , simply because of the basement reference in the Song !!!! They don't have basements in London 🤷🤷🤷
@@Craig-bz3dm Yes they do because of the Blitz in WW2. Houses were bombed - new ones built with basements
Ditto bro
@@Craig-bz3dm nor do we have cadillac`s. And we say `post` instead of mail. I have ofen thought this song was just the Stones using Americanisms, so you do have a valid point. And Ive alway thought this is a funny song for TVZ to `cover.`
@@Craig-bz3dm they don't have basements in Texas man . So that goes against the claim. Tbh I think townes wrote it. I've heard that from ppl very close to him.
Why does this version only have a few hundred views but all the others posted have thousands or tens of?..
This song seems to me to say, “ I’m sorry I wasn’t right, but haunt my every day and I’ll be nothing but grateful”
Texas has more great writers than any other place. Must be the water
100% . UK has some good folk writers too. I say that as a proud Texan, Townes is the very best , Gordon Lightfoot was amazing too. Everyone Townes friends were amazing songwriters . Guy. Blaze, Steve , Kris . It's like everyone that man touched were blessed. I'm the only person I know that is under 40 (barely) that got to meet him. I was sadly only 7 years old but my cousin introduced me to him and told.me he was the best songwriter to ever live and this is a important man.
But this is a cover of a rolling stones song. It was written by englishmen, not texans.
Anybody knows from what year and what location this version is?!?
Jimmie Sam Grey, Ruester Roland, and Townes.....Springwaters, '81
*MOVIE REFERENCE*
Stones version does this the justice it deserves. Mick and the boys led me to Towns. Epic stuff. The Stones cover is just as great as the original with all of Micks sass.
Fyi..the Stones version IS the original.
@@MrLuciano54 you are right. My bad. Still love both "original " versions.
@@twobeards6714 me too both are great.
@@MrLuciano54 wish TVZ was still around. I diggin this out and giving it another spin. I'm 70, that's old man talk
@@Spectrescup wait what? Townes wrote it first but didn’t record it?
I’m genuinely asking, this is my first time hearing this version.
strikes and gutters ups and downs
11 out of 10, and even that feels disrespectful
Let's get a lane.......
Let's go bowling
Best version ...Townes sadly missed
The Best C&W song and written by the Stones.
Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944-January 1, 1997)
😎❤️
Everyone talks about the Rolling Stones version which is far inferior.
This one is legendary!
Maybe they talk about the Stones version because it's a Stones song?
@@denroy3 I know, but the Stones version is trash, just like every other song they play played.
New Riders Of The Purple Sage also do a belter version of this 🥰
@@notorioustampaton That's absurd. The original Stones version is a classic from one of the seminal albums of the 1970s, Sticky Fingers (1971). There's a reason so many great songwriters and outlaw country artists have covered it: because it's a great song!
@@tylerbolden6189 I don’t care about the history of the song. The Stones are shite, and their version is goofy and daft. You won’t convince me otherwise.
@@notorioustampaton Because you're goofy and daft, give me a break. I doubt you've ever listened to much of the Stones's oeuvre. Your framework of knowledge seems SEVERELY limited, especially of peak-era Stones in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Reminds me of the Pat Garret and Billy the Kid film opening and closing themes by bob Dylan, can anyone else hear it? Well they say pat garret has your number, so rest with one eye open when you slumber, cuse every sound just may be the sound of thunder, thunder from the barrel of his gun,
People call him the Texas Bob Dylan
Anyone knows who is singing harmony?
I believe it's Jimmy Gray, who was also part of Waylon Jennings' band The Waylors. He's credited with vocals on this album.
Mick and Kieth wrote it but no one did it like Townes....perfect.
And one could say Townes did it in his usually dull, lifeless, half-drunken, tiresome way.
Well, I'm sittn there/here?, depends on when you about I guess, & I was wondern if anyone here could abide a request for not the transcribe but the generally accepted chord tab., progression of this here song sos that I may play along and you know
To feel complete, I immediately have to follow up this song with Shawn Colvin’s Viva Las Vegas.
Who's singing with Towns on this one?
Jimmy grey
🎁
Better then the Stones version...my opinion ~
I texted the pastor of my Baptist Church I sent him a text message saying that they peed on the dude's rug and that rug really tied the room together and he replied forget about the fin toe
Andrew L.Oldham: "De haber sabido que The Rolling Stones terminaría siendo una banda de músicos burgueses y pseudoaristócratas no los hubiera yo apoyado". Sácatelas mano. Pero la rola es muy buena, más allá de juicios sobre la banda.
Trying to be like the dude but it's super difficult. People including my family members think I am weak or lazy and I am trying to take it easy. I almost killed myself at college.
I know Mfer.... Best be ⏰😘⏰⏰⏰⏰
100x better than the original! Way more pointed emotions
I don't know. I love Townes, but I always found his take on this Stones classic to be dull and devoid of something. It's not that great.
The song now belongs to Townes... absolutely owns ot woth his version. Not saying the stones version is bad but this is next level
Country Music
Did he write this before the stones?
No, this is a Stones original.
Sorry this is a rolling stones song. Van zandt recorded his cover in 1994
Tonya Hutchinson I forgive you
Rolling Stones suck.
How do you know this is from 1994?
@@jonasskjtt5542 It's on his Roadsongs album from 1994. The original was written in 1970 and came out on Sticky Fingers in 1971.
@@jonathanmosher72 do you know when TVZ recorded this song live?
My uncle done fucked up. This his new song.
This is why America will always be the land of musical creation. Music like this is from Gods country
Classic Americana from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards!
Its from England
@@user-om5wu1is9s You limeys are just plain mad if you think TVZ is British 🤣 Go back to your tea
Big lie by someone who apparently knows nothing or cares to know nothing . Keth Richards wrote it in England. And where is any evidence that the creator of the huge , old universe cares anything at all about temporary nations , or humans at all? I know , never argue with an ignorant , dumb person . But Keth deserves credit for authorship Not Townes , he just covered like Pat Boone covered Little Richard .
This is the real "Flowers" song, F that Miley C bullshit. How bout buy yourself a hit.
💐
I personally think that Townes changed the Stones song to the point where its more than just a cover.
No comparison.
Townes wrote this song. This was recorded on the late 60s or early 70s, the most underrated song writer. He is as good in my opinion as Bob Dillon, and guys like that, what held him back was his severe manic depression and heroine and alcohol addiction. He was amongst the greats, he was just left behind, because of his attitude, meanness, and stubborn ness
Townes did not write this song. It is an original Jagger/Richards song that appeared on the Stones' Sticky Fingers album released in 1971. Great version by Townes, though. BTW, it is Bob Dylan, not Bob Dillon.
@@mackey-5438 Bob Dylan said townes was the greatest American songwriter . And it is very disputed that jaggar and Richard's wrote this . It is documented that they did shows with townes in late 60s early 70s. So who knows. But I know people that were very close to him that say they stole this song .
My understanding, was that this Song was about "Edie Sedgewick One of Andy warhol's accoylites.I also heard Dylan"s "Blonde on blonde", record was inspired by Edie. She was a muse, it seems,...
Mick and Keith wrote this
@@frederickryerson4994 rumor is they traded dope for the song.
When I posted my post, Youtobe sent me a message about the word used by me. I will repost the same message using "Different" words (the changed words are within semicolumns) so my message will be not deleted: "Unfortunately, this song (much better than the original RS, I'm a real RS fan, but not blind) means a lot for me, twice. You can tell me that if this song means a lot for me twice, I'm a :fuyllying: idiot, one is enough. It maybe I'm really a :fuyllying: idiot.
Sometimes there’s a man…