Night is here again, baby,
I'm stretched out on my bed
Seeing all kinds of crazy notions
Running through my head;
I need a progressive woman;
I need an awfully liberal woman;
Ain't no reactionary baby
Can ease my revolutionary mind.
One hand is on my pillow
One hand is on my head,
I see a million nightmares
Tearing around inside my head;
I need a progressive woman
I need an awfully liberal woman
I need a social conscious woman
To ease my revolutionary mind.
If I could only make you see, babe,
I ache and pain and bleed,
I know you'd come a runnin'
If you blistered both your feet.
I need a progressive woman;
I need an awful liberal woman;
I need an open minded mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
If you could see me here, baby,
Broke out with salty sweat;
No matter where you go I know
You never could forget
I need a progressive woman;
I need a liberal thinking woman;
I need an open hearted mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
I ain't no lumpen proletariat,
And I ain't no petty bourgeoisie
But I'm gonna be a cold corpse
If you don't run here to me
I need a progressive shipmate;
I need a liberous nature lover,
But no reactionary female
Can ease my revolutionary mind.
If you're a republican or a democrat,
Or a white hood Ku Klux Klan,
No use to ring my doorbell
'Cause I'll never be your man
I want a union working woman
I want a progressive liberous woman,
I want a nice progressive mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
I'm stretched out on my bed
Seeing all kinds of crazy notions
Running through my head;
I need a progressive woman;
I need an awfully liberal woman;
Ain't no reactionary baby
Can ease my revolutionary mind.
One hand is on my pillow
One hand is on my head,
I see a million nightmares
Tearing around inside my head;
I need a progressive woman
I need an awfully liberal woman
I need a social conscious woman
To ease my revolutionary mind.
If I could only make you see, babe,
I ache and pain and bleed,
I know you'd come a runnin'
If you blistered both your feet.
I need a progressive woman;
I need an awful liberal woman;
I need an open minded mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
If you could see me here, baby,
Broke out with salty sweat;
No matter where you go I know
You never could forget
I need a progressive woman;
I need a liberal thinking woman;
I need an open hearted mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
I ain't no lumpen proletariat,
And I ain't no petty bourgeoisie
But I'm gonna be a cold corpse
If you don't run here to me
I need a progressive shipmate;
I need a liberous nature lover,
But no reactionary female
Can ease my revolutionary mind.
If you're a republican or a democrat,
Or a white hood Ku Klux Klan,
No use to ring my doorbell
'Cause I'll never be your man
I want a union working woman
I want a progressive liberous woman,
I want a nice progressive mama
To ease my revolutionary mind.
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2017/9/6 - 15:49
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Parole e musica di Woody Guthrie
Una canzone mai incisa dall’autore, riprese recentemente da Tom Morello negli album di tributo collettivo “Note Of Hope: A Celebration Of Woody Guthrie” (2011) e “Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center” (2013)
Altri scritti di questo periodo riflettono lo smarrimento di Guthrie nell'assistere allo sgretolamento del movimento operaio intorno a sé. Scrisse nell'ottobre del 1946:
Ecco, dunque, la solitudine ideologica che pervade il testo di “Ease My Revolutionary Mind”, un “blues lento e facile” scritto da Guthrie nel settembre del 1946.
(Tratto da “Woody Guthrie: American radical”, di Will Kaufman, 2011, traduzione italiana di Seba Pezzani, Arcana Edizioni, 2012)