papa was a rolling stone

• 1972 tarihlidir. vaktiyle george michael da coverlami$tir.
• george michael adamskinin killer parçasını da coverlayarak bu şarkıya süper bir geçiş yapmıştır...
  
  sözleri vermeden gitmeyelim:
  
  it was the third of september
  that day i'll always remember
  'cause that was the day my daddy died
  i never got a chance to see him
  never heard nothin' but bad things about him
  mama, i'm depending on you to tell me the tuth
  and mama just hung her head and said, son
  
  chorus:
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
  
  hey, mama, is it true what they say
  that papa never worked a day in his life?
  and mama, some bad talk goin' around goin' around town
  sayin' that papa had three outside children and another wife
  and that ain't right
  hey, talk about papa doing some storefront preaching
  talking about saving your soul
  and all the time leaching
  dealing in debt and stealing in the name of the lord
  mama, i'm depending on you to tell me the truth
  and mama hung her head and said
  
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
  
  hey mama i heard papa called himself a jack of all trades
  tell me is that what sent papa to an early grave?
  folks say papa would beg, borrow, steal to pay his bills
  folks say papa wasn't much on thinkin'
  spent most of his life chasin' women and drinking
  mama, i'm depending on you to tell me the truth
  and mama looked up with a tear in her eye and said, son
  
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
  papa was a rolling stone
  wherever he laid his hat was his home
  and when he died
  all he left us was alone
• sarkiyi yazanlar, yine altmislarin - yetmislerin gizli motown starlari norman whitfield / barrett strong..
• seal tarafindan da coverlanmis bir sarkidir ayni zamanda..
• zaten böyle bir papa'ya söylense söylense şu söylenir: papa dont preach
• george michael coverı kesinlikle killer ile birlikte dinlenmelidir. albüm için; five live
• (bkz: munich)
  (bkz: daniel craig)
• şarkı hakkında ilginç bir nokta da şarkıda belirtilen "3 eylül" tarihinin vokalist dennis edwards'ın babasının ölüm tarihi oluşudur. dennis edwards, (aslında şarkı the temptations için yazılmış olmasa da) norman whitfield'ın bu dizeyle kendisine saygısızlık ettiğine ikna olmuş, zaten whitfield'ın vokalleri arka plana itip kendi prodüktörlük yöntemlerini ön plana çıkarmasına kıl olan adam sinir küpüne dönmüştür. bu da yetmemiş, whitfield stüdyodayken dennis edwards'a "it was the 3rd of september / that day i'll always remember" dizesini sürekli tekrarlattırmıştır. en sonunda güçlü sesiyle tanınan edwards, o anlık sinirinden buruk bir sesle dizeye girince whitfield amacına ulaşmış, "aferin evladım oldu" demiştir. bu olayın aslında whitfield'ın nasıl mükemmeliyetçi bir müzisyen olduğunu göstermek gerekirken whitfield'ın temptations'ın prodüktörlük koltuğundan kovulmasındaki sebeplerden biri olmuştur sonradan.
• eminemin mockingbird adlı şarkısında geçen bir dizedir aynı zamanda. papa was a rolling stone/ mama developed a habit şeklinde devam eder gider
• bir was not was yorumu vardır ki dillere destan.en kralı, en şahanesi.
  
  hikayeyi birde anketçinin dilinden analtırsak;
  
  (bkz: orjinalinden iyi olan coverlar)