Little Girl Blue

 

 

 

Janis Joplin murio el 4 de octubre de 1970 pero sigue contando esas gotas de lluvia que caen a su alrededor.

Little girl blue no es un tema que pueda ser considerado representativo de Janis Joplin, se trata de un tema de 1935 popularizado por Nina Simone, mucho más comprometida y radical. Janis Joplin varió la letra interpretándola de una manera totalmente diferente.

 

LITTLE GIRL BLUE según Janis Joplin  (música de Richard Rodgers y letra de Lorenz Hart)

 

Sit there, hmm, count your fingers.

What else, what else is there to do?

Oh, and I know how you feel,

I know you feel that you’re through.

Oh ah-wah-ah sit there, hmm, count,

Ah, count your little fingers,

My unhappy, oh, little girl, little girl blue, yeah.

Oh sit there, oh count those raindrops

Oh, feel’em falling down, honey, all around you.

Honey, don’t you know it’s time?

I feel it’s time,

Somebody told you, ’cause you got to know,

That all you ever gonna have to count on,

Or gonna wanna lean on,

It’s gonna feel just like those raindrops do,

When they’re falling down, honey, all around you.

Oh, I know you’re unhappy.

Oh sit there, ah, go on, go on

And count your fingers.

I don’t know what else, what else,

Honey, have you got to do.

And I know how you feel,

And I know you ain’t got no reason to go on,

And I know you feel that you must be through.

Oh honey, go on and sit right back down.

I want you to count, oh, count your fingers,

Ah, my unhappy, my unlucky

And my little, oh, girl blue.

I know you’re unhappy,

Ooh ah, honey, I know,

Baby, I know, just how you feel