Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.
This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive.
She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end.
So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started.
There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. Telling not just a story with words, but taking you inside it and making you feel like you are there, with their interpretation.
we're illegal, street lethal do it like we can introducing your sould to the new glow of the voodoo glow skulls band we can't be wrong and we won't take no shit if you don't like it it goes like this......... neighbors pick up the phone and call the police because we'er too loud and we might scare their niece if we're too loud then leave the building run away to mommy like little children call the cops we're too loud oh run to mommy because there's a crowd look at his hair, it isn't punk hey man this ain't no disco we love to shake, rattle and roll but if the crowd is slow we'll just go home people understand and we come to play we break the rules so you will stay
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