Roadhouse Blues - The Doors Lyrics
Yeah Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse
We're gonna have a real
Good time
Yeah, back at the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
Yeah, back at the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
And that's for the people
Who like to go down slow
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, all night long
Do it, honey, do it
You gotta roll, roll, roll
You gotta thrill my soul, all right
Roll, roll, roll, roll
Thrill my soul
You gotta beep a gunk a chucha
Honk konk konk
You gotta each you puna
Each ya bop a luba
Each yall bump a kechonk
Ease sum konk
Ya, ride
Ashen lady, Ashen lady
Give up your vows, give up your vows
Save our city, save our city
Right now
Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll, all night long
| When Jim Morrison got drunk, he liked to sing Blues numbers at their
jam sessions. They jammed on a lot of Blues numbers, and came up with
this at one of the sessions. |
| Jim Morrison came up with the line about keeping your "Eyes on the
road, your hands up on the wheel" after riding with his girlfriend,
Pamela Courson, to a cottage they owned outside L.A. She was driving
erratically. |
| John Sebastian from the Lovin' Spoonful played harmonica. He is
identified on the album as "G. Puglese" because he was afraid to be
identified with The Doors in light of Morrison's arrest in Miami. |
| Guitar great Lonnie Mack played bass. The Doors usually did not use
a bass player. |
| Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger joined Creed on stage at Woodstock
'99, where they performed this. It is on the Woodstock '99 CD. |
| A return to The Doors' Blues roots after the more commercial songs
on The Soft Parade. Before they had a record deal, they played many
Blues songs in their long club shows. |
| Outtakes from one of Morrison's recording sessions were used to dub
his voice into a version of this on the 2000 tribute album Stoned
Immaculate, where he duets with John Lee Hooker. |
| In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers
episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Scott Stapp from
Creed sang on this. |
| B-side of "You Make Me Real." |
| The Doors occasionally recorded old Blues songs, but even though
this sounds like it could have been one of them, the wrote it
themselves. |
| This has been called "the ultimate bar song," and it continues to be
played by bar bands everywhere. |
| The first song on Morrison Hotel. The album was a return The Doors'
earlier style. On their previous album, The Soft Parade, they used a lot
of strings and horns. Morrison didn't do much on that album because he
was drunk for most of it and had nothing to do while all the
instrumentation was being worked out. |
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