Steve Earle & The Dukes - "Mr. Bojangles" [Official Audio]

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  • Опубліковано 5 тра 2022
  • From the new album 'JERRY JEFF' out My 27th (‪@NewWestRecords‬): newwst.com/jerryjeffID
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    LYRICS:
    I knew a man, Bojangles and he danced for you
    In worn out shoes
    Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
    The old soft shoe
    He jumped so high
    He jumped so high
    Then he'd lightly touch down
    I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was
    Down and out
    He looked to me to be the eyes of age
    As he spoke right out
    He talked of life
    He talked of life
    He laughed, clicked his heels and stepped
    He said his name, Bojangles and he danced a lick
    Across the cell
    He grabbed his pants, a better stance
    Oh, he jumped so high
    Then he clicked his heels
    He let go a laugh
    He let go a laugh
    Pushed back his clothes all around
    Mr. Bojangles
    Mr. Bojangles
    Mr. Bojangles
    Dance
    He danced for those in minstrel shows and county fairs
    Throughout the south
    He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him
    Traveled about
    The dog up and died
    He up and died
    After twenty years he still grieves
    He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks
    For drinks and tips
    But most the time I spend behind these county bars
    He said I drinks a bit
    He shook his head
    And as he shook his head
    I heard someone ask him please
    Please
    Mr. Bojangles
    Mr. Bojangles
    Mr. Bojangles
    Dance
    © 2022 New West Records, LLC

КОМЕНТАРІ • 105

  • @jonnybaits9356
    @jonnybaits9356 2 роки тому +13

    My name is Johnathan noble I was born in 1998 I just turned 24 I got a really weird vibe when I was listening to over yonder and heard the backstory, crazy how life brought me here it's all to familiar! I feel crazy probably am, but thought I'd share cheers.

  • @pocopeter
    @pocopeter Рік тому +4

    Yesterday in Tilburg Steve played this song. Solo. Absolutely amazing. Like the whole show. If you have a change to see this legend, don't let it pass by!! He is better than ever.

  • @Mikielike
    @Mikielike 11 місяців тому +2

    Awesome

  • @liambrammall1764
    @liambrammall1764 2 роки тому +24

    I can't explain how much I love this song. Written about a real man, I often think about him. It's such a tragic yet triumphant tale, melancholy laced with a very human beauty. The homeless drifter, dancing his way through the sorrows of life, perhaps bringing cheer to those who pass his way. Maybe it's because we all are Mr Bojangles, who hasn't been beaten down to nothing, mere scraps? So yeah. I love this song and Steve's version is damned fine. Thanks

  • @sameold5050
    @sameold5050 Рік тому +10

    Amazing.
    The world is fortunate to have Steve Earle & The Dukes.

    • @josephcornelius3198
      @josephcornelius3198 Рік тому +2

      No doubt!

    • @josephcornelius3198
      @josephcornelius3198 Рік тому +1

      BO bangles and Steve Earle almost impossible to get any better. At least for me.

    • @steveearle37gmail
      @steveearle37gmail Рік тому

      @@josephcornelius3198 just email me with my username you can get to know enough about me

  • @user-tg6mo2mz1o
    @user-tg6mo2mz1o 6 місяців тому +1

    Steve Earle can do nothing wrong musically right now. Although, he did write The Mountain which is a classic. However, the late, great Levon Helm took that song to a new level. Give them both a listen and tell me I'm wrong.

  • @robertbentzel6881
    @robertbentzel6881 2 роки тому +4

    No one better then Earle. Last 40 yrs anyway

  • @jalapenowarrior1665
    @jalapenowarrior1665 Рік тому +6

    Saw Steve Earle & The Dukes last night in Scottsdale, Arizona. What an incredible show! The band is definitely firing on all cylinders! 👍

  • @richardsypniewski9279
    @richardsypniewski9279 2 роки тому +16

    Wonderful version Steve.Jerry Jeff is smiling 🙏💜

  • @janetbrown8811
    @janetbrown8811 2 роки тому +6

    I know you gotta be so sad without your boy.
    Prayers sent.
    I first heard you on a old timey radio at Page Ok.
    Hwy 59.
    Highway goes on and on. Thankyou for the great music 💜

  • @bookwormsurfer
    @bookwormsurfer 2 роки тому +7

    Needed this tonight....familiar voice brings comfort to a song my Galway grandpa sang to me as a child. Gracias kindly.

  • @davemitchell4222
    @davemitchell4222 Рік тому +1

    One of my favorite songs done justice by my favorite song writer

  • @vega1925
    @vega1925 2 роки тому +11

    Best version ever !

  • @robinandthe7hoods507
    @robinandthe7hoods507 Рік тому +1

    Nice one,Steve!...You're still one my favorites...

  • @mickryn
    @mickryn 2 роки тому +5

    Great song, magnificent version - thumbs up Steve from all your Irish fans.

  • @helentomlinson5801
    @helentomlinson5801 Рік тому +3

    I recall songs that JT sang and he'd put a little growl in there like you do😢

  • @sunshine3914
    @sunshine3914 2 роки тому +3

    If you & Snider toured together, that would be a dream come true.
    RIP JJW

  • @james041
    @james041 2 роки тому +5

    Great piece Steve ,see you in july

  • @gonzogorgonzola9153
    @gonzogorgonzola9153 2 роки тому +8

    Great!

    • @terriwatson3993
      @terriwatson3993 2 роки тому +3

      Steve always manages to add that magic touch. Very special..... ✌️

  • @Joe_J-MT_Boy
    @Joe_J-MT_Boy Рік тому +2

    Pretty sweet how Mr. Earle honors the character and feel of the original written by his friend. His own version but there's a lot of Jerry Jeff in there, too.

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +2

    He''d be laughing the whole time!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣Miss that!!!

  • @saradavis3259
    @saradavis3259 2 роки тому +5

    So much love in the universe! I needed this song this morning! ❤

  • @wheelervette
    @wheelervette 2 роки тому +2

    A quintessential American song,performed by a quintessential American artist.

    • @jenrutherford6690
      @jenrutherford6690 Рік тому

      I'm from New Zealand and I've loved this song for 40 years .

  • @Mary-re6ct
    @Mary-re6ct Рік тому +2

    I love this song

  • @xkguy
    @xkguy 2 роки тому +2

    Nice again, Steve.

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +3

    My Pops. 🤣🤷😀⭐😇

  • @rosemurphy8296
    @rosemurphy8296 2 роки тому +1

    Love love love is all I can say

  • @rogerblackwell
    @rogerblackwell Рік тому +2

    I loved this song since I first heard it in the late 1960s.

  • @Mary-re6ct
    @Mary-re6ct Рік тому +1

    Love this song

  • @johnbubbajohnson5630
    @johnbubbajohnson5630 2 роки тому +2

    I love your vision wow

  • @julieloofbourow3042
    @julieloofbourow3042 2 роки тому +8

    Great job Steve. Just the right textures for this song, now I'm going to dance ;)

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    This reminds me of my pops...
    Dk why!! I used to watch him dance... When no one was watching.... Lol 🤣he never drank or smoked anything... But he was
    A comedic when we were kids... Used to chase us when we got in trouble with huge bread knife!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤷💯Truth right there sun... 😀

  • @user-ep3ti8gq7k
    @user-ep3ti8gq7k 2 роки тому +1

    I've looked/listened at many versions......... 3RRR Melbourne Australia introduced me to this version - simply then best to date - Steve Earl thank you - 3RRR - Community based radio - thank you! .........yes fully subscribed 👍

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    T. Y. Pops for the breeze... 🤣💯❤️

  • @dueyramone
    @dueyramone 3 місяці тому

    If y'all are here, and all appreciate the real folk.
    Nothing but acclaim for this cover.
    Check out Todd Snider, and his story version of this one.
    You will not be disappointed, or my name ain't Reverend Duey.

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    He tells me I'm on correct path... So, here I'm LL be.... 💯⭐🤷😇❤️😀😘

  • @doubledoseband
    @doubledoseband Рік тому +1

    Great version...

  • @robertbentzel6881
    @robertbentzel6881 2 роки тому +2

    His tribute albums are all so beautiful. Thanks man. Your the best

  • @maryatkinson2978
    @maryatkinson2978 2 роки тому +1

    Perfectly Perfect 🎵💙🎵

  • @GlasUndMetall
    @GlasUndMetall 2 роки тому +2

    Oh, I love this so much!

  • @harperlea9288
    @harperlea9288 2 роки тому +1

    So so so good. Love this. God bless you.

  • @terriwatson3993
    @terriwatson3993 2 роки тому +2

    i lost my first reply. im going to be listening to this all the way to pearland, tx. love you. im sooo excited 😊 beautiful song and it brings back alot of great memories....

    • @terriwatson3993
      @terriwatson3993 2 роки тому +1

      Love this sooo much and it made my trip a happy one. Love how you played the song and love you too eternal peace ✌️🕊️

  • @bubbyclark4
    @bubbyclark4 2 роки тому +3

    Good job love this

  • @dustdevl3404
    @dustdevl3404 2 роки тому +1

    Beautifully done, Steve. As always, your voice conveys the emotion of the lyrics. There's a reason you've been my favorite since I first heard Copperhead Road on the radio in my Mustang so many, many years ago now. That song jumped off the radio and grabbed me from the very first time I heard it. This one does too. Many others in between.

  • @crystalclearsun
    @crystalclearsun 21 день тому

    🎸 ☀ 🍻

  • @sexxxyeewarriorhexxxed6666
    @sexxxyeewarriorhexxxed6666 Рік тому +1

    INTRESTING!🤔ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE TIMES....
    HMMMMMMM?

  • @SamuelSaintMusic
    @SamuelSaintMusic 4 місяці тому

    Hey man! Not sure if you read these comments anymore, but you were always a huge inspiration and I hope to meet you one day. Are you still touring?

  • @jayvarner1305
    @jayvarner1305 Рік тому

    thank you

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    Song just downloaded.... U "LL agree.... 😀

  • @CleanHead
    @CleanHead 2 роки тому

    Has Steve Earle always had these grunt sounds and I never noticed?

  • @robertbentzel6881
    @robertbentzel6881 2 роки тому +3

    Fuckin Awesome!!!!

  • @johnjarvis2168
    @johnjarvis2168 2 роки тому +2

    Steve, open up "Copperhead Road" cannabis shops. Like Jimmy's "Margaritaville"

  • @davidstick5497
    @davidstick5497 2 роки тому

    Looking forward to hearing the rest. What other surprises will it have?! See you guys at the Birchmere.

  • @tahween
    @tahween 2 роки тому

    Steve, love ❤ 😍 💖 the Music. Way to go!

  • @communityracecar
    @communityracecar 2 роки тому

    ❤️ Love it.

  • @thomasminarchickjr.7355
    @thomasminarchickjr.7355 2 роки тому +4

    Steve’s voice has been a little different ever since he got those implant teeth. All of the old rock and rollers that ruined their teeth now have game show host teeth. First record of his that he had them, I thought to myself “why the hell doesn’t he just take those false teeth out so he sounds like Steve?!” Didn’t know about these teeth until my father-in-law got a set. I heard the lisp and said “that’s what Steve Earle did!” I still love his work

    • @feartheturtle9618
      @feartheturtle9618 2 роки тому

      Think Steve got implants and not false teeth.

    • @thomasminarchickjr.7355
      @thomasminarchickjr.7355 2 роки тому

      @@feartheturtle9618 I know. I didn’t realize it years ago when I heard his first one with the implants. Wasn’t until a few years later that I saw that he had implants. All them have them now.

    • @nerboo
      @nerboo 2 роки тому

      He sounds terrible on this song.

    • @sidmcparland8567
      @sidmcparland8567 2 роки тому +8

      Nerboo. No he doesn't he sounds like the legend he always has been

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Love boo

  • @ThePopeDr
    @ThePopeDr Рік тому

    I like it! Reminds me of David Bromberg's arrangement.

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    Looks like your holding that WORLD UP PRETTY GOOD WITH NO PROBLEM... SEE, C, SEA I KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YAH!!! MY
    FEELINGS ALWAYS RUN STRAIGHT AND TRUE THRU + THRU..... WHAT WOOD WE DO WITHOUT YOU??? CHUCK ALOT OF SHIT!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🤣😀😘

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    For evertoo

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    Hello. Thinking of you now..
    How are you? Good I hope. Lol 🤣 u know iiss u, love u, and
    Hate u!!! Is that even possible?
    Is there such a thing as that???
    Idk? But,...... This song always made me SAD!! IDK WHY???
    BEAUTIFUL MORNING IT IS... ❤️
    💯⭐ LOVE YA ANYWAY....
    HAVE A GREAT ONE!!! ⭐😇🤷💯😀😘

  • @james041
    @james041 Рік тому

    Waiting for you to get back to Toronto Rock On brother
    RnR Jim in TO

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Love me too

  • @pktdbgnzwl
    @pktdbgnzwl 2 роки тому

    wow🥺

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    It's KITE HAWK!!! SEE THEM FURTHER SOUTH THAN HERE!!!
    HEY, SOFT SHOE HOW ARE YOU?? GREAT I HOPE... 🤷😀
    HOPING ALL IS WELL!!! 💯⭐😇🤣❤️😀😘

  • @wimweender1306
    @wimweender1306 2 роки тому +1

    😍🥰

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 2 роки тому +1

    🙏🔥💓

  • @a.j.schuler6785
    @a.j.schuler6785 9 місяців тому

    Steve, I saw you for the fourth time last night at The Birchmere. Thanks as always for a great and moving show. I wanted to ask you about that little Martin you were playing for most of the songs. The top is dark and it makes it look like an all mahogany guitar, like an OM or maybe 000 model, but the tone had a lot of crispness and body in the bass, a little more than i would expect from an all mahogany guitar that size, but maybe that was the preamp, amp and EQ. I have an 000-15 and I think if i dug into it like your performance it would not hold up to the range you got out of that guitar. I'm a Martin junkie with four of my own, so I'm real curious, and I know you're a guitar junkie. Is that a stained Adirondack top maybe? Anyway, i wanted to ask, though you may never see this. I've been a fan since I cane across I Feel Alright when you released it. Thanks again for a great show.

  • @freetickeys
    @freetickeys 2 роки тому +2

    Life is for the living, but it sure seems like he's been obsessed by the music of the dead for the last few years. (TVZ, JJW, GC, JTE)

  • @robertbentzel6881
    @robertbentzel6881 2 роки тому +2

    Is this a new album?

    • @picknfish
      @picknfish 2 роки тому +1

      Recent tribute to Jerry Jeff Walker...

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Lovesammie

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Awelover

  • @barryharkins9390
    @barryharkins9390 Рік тому

    😎

  • @JeffHensley-fv3ix
    @JeffHensley-fv3ix Рік тому +1

    Can you please do a collab with Ryan Upchurch?! PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE.

    • @sherrigore
      @sherrigore Рік тому

      Agree. It would be amazing to here that collaboration ☪️

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Hal

  • @odyssey1537
    @odyssey1537 2 роки тому +2

    First

    • @feartheturtle9618
      @feartheturtle9618 2 роки тому +1

      By being first, you now own every bridge in your state. Congratulations.

    • @odyssey1537
      @odyssey1537 2 роки тому

      @@feartheturtle9618 I don’t live in the states

    • @karenstanley964
      @karenstanley964 2 роки тому

      And !!!

  • @hexxxed2824
    @hexxxed2824 Рік тому +1

    My pops wander to NEW ORLEANS AFTER WAR AND HIS SHOTGUN WEDDING FELL APART... STORY FOR SOME OTHER DAY. NOT HERE. 2PRIVATE.... 🤷😇

  • @joanabrco2128
    @joanabrco2128 2 роки тому

    Snowman

  • @donnaholstein2104
    @donnaholstein2104 Рік тому

    It's me again Scott and Steven Holstein Mom....knock knock....whose there...dirt...dirt who....wide load grows ☠️ through dirt .... Boo 👻... Thought about these games.... Silence grows ☠️ like Cancer ☠️☠️☠️

  • @wickedlee664
    @wickedlee664 2 роки тому

    Weird growling Steve