Thank you for reacting to this song - IMO Swamp Dogg's cover was better but still great. People need to empathise more with those suffering from addiction - they're always trying to cover some pain, something broke them and they're trying their best to keep things together while hating themselves every day. Anyone that thinks an addict gets high for pleasure really doesn't understand what it's like.
John and Johnny Cash, fought about this song. Cash wanted to record the song and perform it on his TV show. However Johnny wanted to get rid of the lyric phrase, 'Jesus Christ died for nothing ...' - Prine resisted but did not know how to outright refuse
great song, but that ice rink organ and most of all the electric sitar (I am guessing) are just ... way too period I guess is a nice way of saying it ...
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The live performance is even better
John Prine wrote this song in his early 20”s.
Anybody who reacts to a John Prine song has me as a subscriber! Great job
He had throat cancer in the nineties and changed his sound
@@jeffphilips9279 wow I didn’t know that. Learn something new everyday. Thx for the info
Thank you for reacting to this song - IMO Swamp Dogg's cover was better but still great. People need to empathise more with those suffering from addiction - they're always trying to cover some pain, something broke them and they're trying their best to keep things together while hating themselves every day.
Anyone that thinks an addict gets high for pleasure really doesn't understand what it's like.
thanks for this
This one is better live.
John and Johnny Cash, fought about this song. Cash wanted to record the song and perform it on his TV show. However Johnny wanted to get rid of the lyric phrase, 'Jesus Christ died for nothing ...' - Prine resisted but did not know how to outright refuse
great song, but that ice rink organ and most of all the electric sitar (I am guessing) are just ... way too period I guess is a nice way of saying it ...
Organ and synth in the background mucks up this song… live version is so much better