Ego Rock - Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin

Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go

Peter you start it

Richard, you start it

Somebody start it

I just had to get out on the Texas plane, Lord, well it was bringing me down

Yeah, I had to get out of Texas, baby, Lord, it was bringing me down

I been all around the world, but Port Arthur is the worst place that I’ve ever

found

I guess they couldn’t understand it there, honey, they’d laugh me off the street

Lord, I guess they couldn’t understand me, baby, honey, they’d laugh,

I said they’d laugh me right off the street, yeah

I said I want to keep on moving, baby, be the last person I ever wanna meet

Yeah, yeah, yeah, honey isn’t it hard when you’re all alone

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, honey isn’t it hard, Lord, when you’re all alone

I might die real old lady, but I’d never call Texas my home, no, no, no, oh

You say you come from Texas, baby, she says she left Texas with just her name

That’s what she told me

Yes she’s from Texas I tell you, she says she left Texas with just her name

Yes, well I swear when that girl came to the big city, Lord, she learned a

brand new game

Well, yeah

Honey, I hear you talking about sorrow, baby but you don’t know my pain,

that’s right!

Mercy!

Mercy!

I hear you talking about my sorrow, you don’t know my pain

You know there’s an inside kind of sorrow, Lord, the women are always singing

the blues

All right, all right mother fucker, you sing

You know I, I dealt the Ace to the Queen, you know I played scrabble with L.B.J

Yes, I dealt an Ace to the Queen, didn’t I’ll tell you I was playing scrabble

with L.B.J

Well, I don’t care what the name of the game is, baby, I tell you I always seem

to get my way

I used to be a doggone fool, fall for a woman’s story every time

But no more, I swear

Well, I used to be a, be a doggone fool, fall for that old woman’s story every

time

Yes I, I’m a big boy now, yeah, they got to come up with some kind of heavy line

Well, well, yeah!

Sounds like I found the man, who could take care of my time

It isn’t me babe, it isn’t me babe!

It appears to me that I found a man, that could take care of my time

Well, I got my own trouble, I got my own car, I got my own little lady,

I got my hotel

Oh what are you talking about!

Don’t try to take it!

Somebody talks as fine as he does, ought a be able to take care of

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

Woman, woman, it just makes me mad

Woman, yeah

Woman, yeah

Woman, yeah

Woman, yeah

Woman, yeah, yeah, it just makes me mad

Oh man, shit, man

Yes, she played me for the fool I tell you

Yes and I’ve got to love every man she’s ever had, yeah

If I found a man who could put me down the way you do

I mean so handy-like, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I found a man, whoa, who could put me down the way you do

I mean so easy like it was second nature, you know what I mean, man?

Ah maybe that man could help me, at least, honey I thought I would give you a

chance

I said I, what I said I could try after the, after the show tonight maybe uh

I’m just a working man, you know

Ha ha ha ha, you don’t work too hard, baby!

You know I’m not a Hollywood star

I’m not Joe Namath, you know, I read about that in the papers today

You know I’m just a working man, you don’t work too hard, baby

I never ran in a football game 200 yards

That’s the kind of man I like, that’s the kind of man I like

But you know I can take care of those country girls

Well I can mess around in that farmyard

Lord, Lord, whoa!

Ha ha ha!

ha

Whew!

Whew!

Wow!

That’s getting a little too close, too heavy here

That’s Nick Gravenites, that was a tune called Ego Rock, No!

All right, rock, rock & roll song