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How Many More Times, treat me the way you wanna do? -X2
When I give you all my love, please, please be true.
I'll give you all I've got to give, rings, pearls, and all. -X2
I've got to get you together baby, I'm sure, sure you're gonna crawl.
(spoken)
I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it all over, just what I had missed.
Got me a girl and I kissed her and then and then...
Whoops, oh Lordy, well I did it again.
Now I got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But I'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind
'Cause I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine
I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.
Oh, Rosie, oh, girl. -X2
Steal away now, steal away -X2
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play.
Well they call me the hunter, that's my name.
They call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide, Ain't no need to run.
'Cause I've got you in the sights of my..........gun!
How Many More Times, barrelhouse all night long. -X2
I've got to get to you, baby, baby, please come home.
When I give you all my love, please, please be true.
I've got to get you together baby, I'm sure, sure you're gonna crawl.
I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it all over, just what I had missed.
Got me a girl and I kissed her and then and then...
Whoops, oh Lordy, well I did it again.
Now I got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But I'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind
'Cause I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine
I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.
Steal away now, steal away -X2
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play.
They call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide, Ain't no need to run.
'Cause I've got you in the sights of my..........gun!
I've got to get to you, baby, baby, please come home.
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The spoken part of the song is interesting, because it's a switch in narrative from Plant's usual complaining that a woman won't stay faithful. In that part, Plant sings in the voice of a really sleazy guy within eleven kids who is having an affair with a young (probably underage) girl.
What's interesting is if the schoolgirl's name is "Rosie" because of a 1965 Kinks song called "Rosie Won't You Please Come Home." The Kinks song was about a girl who left her working class home to live in the upper class, but the first verse could be reinterpreted to be about a girl who left home-- perhaps ran away:
Rosie, won't you please come home Mama don't know where you've been Rosie, won't you please come home Your room's clean and no one's in it
Oh my Rosie how I miss you You are the world to me Take a look and see if you like it if you doubt it, please come back etc.
What if Rosie left home, and she hooked up with a sleazy guy?
"How Many More Times" was done in 1968, so it's a contemporary to the Kinks song. Further, since Page worked with the Kinks back when he did studio work for "All Day and All of the Night", so there could be a lighthearted connection. This part of "How Many More Times" could be an explanation of where Rosie went after she left home. That explains Plant's character pressuring Rosie to leave her home and "steal away" to him instead.
The original Kinks song is sweet, while the Led Zeppelin song is rather menacing, particularly with the bow-work that Page does with his guitar. You get the feeling of a guy who is a lot older than Rosie, manipulating her for sex. To top it off, the character mockingly sings to her to "please come home" (around 7:43), echoing the original Kinks song.
If this was the intention of HMMT, hats off to Plant for a fun twist on the original song.
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This is exactly the kind of comment I come to this site for. That is absolutely fascinating and adds an entirely new dimension of appreciation to an already spectacular song. You've set me off on another LZ listening-research extravaganza.
This is exactly the kind of comment I come to this site for. That is absolutely fascinating and adds an entirely new dimension of appreciation to an already spectacular song. You've set me off on another LZ listening-research extravaganza.
@sdp👍❤, you should get paid for this. Thanks. Have a Blessed weekend. This would be song - to hear all day if I were on Gilligans Island.
@sdp👍❤, you should get paid for this. Thanks. Have a Blessed weekend. This would be song - to hear all day if I were on Gilligans Island.
Holy mother of all gods...i don't know y only 1 person has commented abou this song!?!?! This, out of every Zeppelin song i've listened to, has gotta be the one that has fiddled my fancy. This song makes me wanna be a rocknroll star. I love the design of this song. It has no main refrain (like many other Zeppelin song), goes into sort of a dreamy type sound in the middle. I love the words. Reminds when i just started dating this girl that i've already dated 2 times. Well that's all i gotta say. hope someone else can say somethin about it too
JPJ is really good in the intro. Is it him? I can't tell. Not to experienced.
percy hit the high range on this one.
This is my new favorite Led Zeppelin song. So raw and dark and that bow of JPs is ominous. But after listening to LZ for over 40 years and seeing the music industry in general.....I FEEL like there are so many rip offs from black music that its laced every where.....actually Zeppelin 1 and 2 are drenched with theft. Especially the lyrics. They seem like a mishmash of Plant and Pages fantasies.....Page had the school girl girlfriend and maybe even Plant dabbled too. But its the type of thing old blues singers would brag about....running around and hunting girls. This song is the true spirit of Led Zeppelin....dark.... a bit evil and hammer of the God's decadent....and "inspired" by American black music from the South. And when I say Inspired I mean in the way Elvis was inspired and Early white rappers were inspired. A++++ track that I have on repeat everytime I ride my bike and blast on my speaker.
This song is really sweet.`
This song feels like a journey to me. Like a neverending jam. It is so good. I love the middle section, that sounds sorta Spanish, and then when it all stops and then the drums come back in right after that. Woo! Crazy good blues.
my buddy says this song is about cheatin on his wife. he dont like doing it but he keeps on...
Some guy, your buddy...
Some guy, your buddy...
Well they call me the hunter, that's my name. They call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame. Ain't no need to hide, Ain't no need to run. 'Cause I've got you in the sights of my..........gun!
I love Zep, but this lyric is directly stolen from Freddy King's The Hunter.
This songs good, buts its one of the biggest rips,the bass is taken straight from smokestack lighting, and in the live version, jimmy plays the main guitar riff from smokestack lightning to it