No More Elmore - Original - Eric Burdon

Just after I left school

I begin working for living

Came home one day

From a hard day’s digging

Went down to my blues collection

Just for some peace of mind

And I got the word Elmore James is gone

Seems like I lost a friend of mine

No more Elmore, no more Elmore James

No more Elmore, no more Elmore James

It’s a shame, crying shame

No more Elmore James

When I was mannish boy

When I was in high school

My biggest influence was a 45 record

Made me wanted to dance

The music freaks would gather

From all over town

'Til early in the morning

We laid the beat on down

No more Elmore, no more Elmore James

No more Elmore, no more Elmore James

It’s a shame, crying shame

No more Elmore James

As I grew older

The music grow within me I knew that soon one of these days

I’d be out on the road

Fronting my own rock’n’roll show

We made the people sing

We made the people dance

True blue music

Puts everybody in a trance

We kicked in the guitar

No more Elmore James

When I’m feeling down

And all messed up inside

Put an Elmore on the box

And groovin’n’slip’n’slidin'

Elmore, I take him everywhere

As I travel down the long road

Lord, I hop he’s down there

I sang at the crossroads

At the full of the moon

And I know for sure

It’s true true love that counts

And I’m in love, yes

Couldn’t believe my ears

Couldn’t believe my eyes

Have to go through life

Without hearing that slide

Take him everywhere

I got it on my back

As I walk down this long road

No more Elmore James

No more Elmore James