Michael Jerling
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Sweet Soul Music
From the album Little Movies
Sweet Soul Music ©2000 Michael Jerling It’s a rainy night in Memphis In my mind’s eye In a room At the Lorraine Motel Nineteen sixty-five Wilson Pickett and Steve Cropper Take that gospel power And sanctify the blues In the midnight hour In the midnight hour They’ll be dancin’ In Chicago Up in Detroit too They’ll be dancin’ In the high school gym They’ll be dancin’ To that sweet soul music One hand on the volume One foot on the gas Through the darkness Of the great Midwest A car pulls out to pass And the road goes on forever Toward that radio tower Fifty thousand watts burn Through the midnight hour Through the midnight hour They’ll be dancin’ In Houston Up in New York too They’ll be dancin’ In the corner bar They’ll be dancin’ To that sweet soul music It’s another night in Memphis Nineteen sixty eight The trash piles on the corner And the hour is late In a room at the Lorraine Motel The walls are wired There’s blood out on the pavement And the sky’s on fire The sky’s on fire They’ll be burnin’ In Chicago Up in Detroit too They’ll be burnin’ down The high school gym They’ll be burnin’ down That sweet soul music Sweet soul music Sweet soul music Michael Jerling - 12 string and high-strung guitars, keyboard, vocals Tony Markellis - bass Danny Whelchel - drums
