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Fooled Around And Fell In Love Lyrics

I must have been through about a million girls
I'd love 'em and I'd leave 'em alone
I didn't care how much they cried, no sir
Their tears left me cold as a stone

But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love

It used to be when I'd see a girl that I liked
I'd get out my book and write down her name
But when the grass got a little greener on the other side
I'd just tear out that page

But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
Since I met you baby
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love

Free, on my own that's the way I used to be
Ah, but since I met you baby
Love's got a hold on me
It's got a hold on me now
I can't let go of you baby

I can't stop lovin' you now
'Cause I fooled around, fooled around, fooled around
Fooled around, fooled around, fooled around, fell in love

Fooled around, fooled around, yes I did
Fooled around, fooled around, fooled around
I fell in love, yes I did
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Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

Yes, nagromnai, Mickey Thomas is the singer of this song. This song is from 1976, three years before Thomas joined Jefferson Starship.

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

This song is about the rock star life of having sex with groupies on a tour, then leaving the women behind as they go on to the next stop on the tour in another town. The musicians don't really love them, they just fulfill their deed on the lonely road with a few women and then they're gone.

But, in this case it looks like he happens to fall in love with one of the women. He just can't seem to shake her from his mind.

This song is actually not sung by Elvin Bishop, even though it's his band. He plays the lead guitar while Mickey Thomas of Jefferson Starship sings the vocals.

@richie the song is about Jenny

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

i really like this song i cant remember which rob zombie movie it was in but its pretty cool.

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

Hey Richie, is that right about the vocals? I never realised

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

This is such a cliche, but this song always sounded to me like it's about heroin addiction. Not just because of the whacked-out, flanger-dripping sound. He was with many girls and didn't love any of them, but then he found heroin which he loves more than any woman. In rock music, love for a girl is often a metaphor for addiction to hard drugs. You hear it all through Led Zeppelin, for instance: "I can't quit you, but I'm going to have to put you down for a while." I think it's true here as well.

The life of a rock musician or bluesman is a self-destructive one. A friend was a bluesman in Texas. He died alone in a hotel room at 34 years of age.

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

wow that's cool that MT sings lead vocals. Didn't even realize

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

What happened to this verse?

It used to be when I'd see a girl that I liked I'd get out my book and write down her name But when the grass got a little greener over on the other side I'd just tear out that page

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

for in order this to make sense to my life, it would be "I must been around a million people, I'd lie to them n' leave em' alone, but then I fooled around n' fell in love." good song by the way. sad. :(

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

These lyrics are so dumb. So what happened exactly? Why did he fall in love? What was she like? Nada. Just the title repeated ad nauseum.

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@Zorro3 This song was actually written by Bishop when he met Jenny Villarin and fell in love with her they had a daughter named Selina Bishop. They WERE a couple until they went thier separate ways. After closing the Paper mill Creek Saloon in Woodacer California,Marin County, Jenny was found dead in August 3rd of 2000 along side her " friend " Jim Gamble both were shot dead. Her daughter Selina Bishop, 22 was missing at the time of the murders. She got involved with a man named Jordan "Taylor" Helzer an active member of the...

Cover art for Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics by Elvin Bishop

This is a classic song. There is nothing to explain, he fools around and then falls in love. LOVE. How can you put true love in to words, it's so powerful, so he sings ...and I fell in love. Nothing more to say. The background music and and the whole vibe of the song is a description of love. Righteous/religious, mysterious, sad, passionate, deep. It's hard to put love in to words. That's what I love about this song. It's like he is saying, I fell in love man, what more can I say. Unless you have fallen deeply in love you just won't really get it.

 
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