Blood, Sweat & Tears - And When I Die Lyrics

My favorite album ever!

Dec 27, 2019: In memory of Sgt Manuel R. Martinez, who was killed on Aug 22, 1975 south of Santa Fe. Manuel, 23, was a kind Marine who had a shy grin, a big heart and a gentle spirit. Manuel rolled his 240Z Datsun on his return to Albuquerque from his mining job in Farmington. After losing his car keys on the job, he tried to make up the time by speeding. He served in Okinawa Japan and had only been back in the states for a year. *For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17 I LOVE YOU MANUEL, Katrina

I like calling random ppl & yelling -to carry on to carry on!!!!!!!

I was going to college on the G.I. bill in 1968 after a tour in Vietnam, when this song was hot. It make me feel good for my future but sad for some of my friends who didn't come back.

튼 순간 전율이 온몸에 돋네요.

Love this song gets me over the ruff days in life

I am one of millions of people who could not listen (to have records) with Western music ... this was the situation in the communist countries ... in an ex-communist country I was born and I live ... I do not As a child, I liked the native music, but the Western music (including from America) we were listening to (in terrible conditions of sound quality) on the radio ... in order to be able to take foreign stations, you had to have a good radio ... few people had (only in cities) radio ... in the country in the 50's it was not known what RADIO is ... things evolved a little, but there are no discs on the market or western music on radio ... I was already " drugged "by the charm of Western music, listening to the radio, but I found (hard) a source to buy music (on the black market) in the capital of the country..from my city in the capital were about 240 km .... we bought (high price) music (tape recordings) ... in the summer of 1972 in the seaside resort (near my hometown - 2 km) was a summer theater (in ae r free) ... one afternoon I went over there (to the theater) and saw a poster stating that the show "Blood, Sweat and Tears" will be performing ... I was crazy ... I couldn't believe it so something ... after a few days, the poster disappeared and it was announced that the show will no longer take place ... the country's dictator since then, after a visit to Mao's China. applied the "cultural revolution" and to us ... I was "destroyed" because I could not see LIFE a world-class band "at home" to me .... I will not forget this. until death ... who has not lived in a communist country, does not know what is communism ...

I think i like this song but all i here is mother Russia spilling them crap filled beans

This song sounds like Chicago band music I like this song it class tune

Dying is serious our souls will live on the choice of where is ours

I swear there ain't no heaven, I pray there ain't no hell.

I had no idea they were still touring until I checked. New lead singer, though.

I think this is one single where those musical breaks should have been kept in.

Written by the Bronx prodigy, Laura Nyro, aged 16. Included on her debut LP February 1967.

I hope that everyone else who left positive comments here and they comment section do indeed die fairly soon. I'm not saying like tomorrow or anyting but maybe in the next 10 years or so. Maybe then the misbegotten era between the Beatles and punk can just peter out for good and I won't ever have to hear this song again.

Sounds like Planned Parenthood missed one. Make that appointment, sweetie. It's not too late.

I can never decide whether this or "MacArthur Park" is the worst song of all time.

the lyric with the the one child born to carry on says it all. great song !!!

My brother Dick an original member

Was lucky to find this on vinyl at a record sale a few years back.

❤💃🙏🤜

This song's instrumentation and sound has a western movie musical feel to it

Blazing Saddles

The "one child" is you, everyone. The dogs thought that meant they will fake only 1 childbirth. (The kids everyone thought they got/ bought were/are stolen).

this was the first lp( long playing) album I bought ,I was in 9th grade

ONE OF THE BEST OF SONGS ABOUT DEATH...SO CARRYING ON ..NOTHING BUT .. BLOOD,SWEAT,TEARS..☠

these guys were SO ahead of their time musically <3

I have said it again and again. PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL. please. Such a good song, happy and sad. This is my song.

Honestly people, can any of today's bands do anything similar to this? I don't believe so.

Loved that tune since it came out. Meaning, feeling. I think brother had the album, or sisters. They always had the good stuff, pun intended.

THANK GOD I HAVE A SON 🦄😎🦄👍👍💚💛❤💜💙🧡💔✌🤣👍👍🎙

"I'll swear there ain't no heaven but I'll pray there ain't no hell" Best lines ever!!!

Always loved that line..................

Proves there's no such thing as an athiest.

@Mary Plaidy Proves there's that, and also human hypocrisy.
I'm the hypocrite.

They don't make music like that anymore. Damn.

쿵짝짝 쿵짝 쿵짝짝 쿵짝 이서현과 친구들 보세요

And when I die~~~~

쿵 짝짝 쿵 짝

쿵짝짝쿵짝쿵짝짝쿵짝

@이서현 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@jeon jeon 재꼴이는?

Written by the great Laura Nyro.

Sad irony that she died at 49

@sam kohen I sometimes wonder if she foresaw that fact that her life would be short & maybe that's partly what drove her to accomplish so much in that short amount of time-very possible.

In 55 years of living , endless learning/reading/discovering like a voracious shark, all along the way.....I've never come across the likes of this man. A sprite, a clown, an elf, a saint, imperfect in his perfection, I love and respect him as the greatest human I have ever come across. Read all you can about him and copy him. He is all I aspire to be, and never will be. The Earth was fortunate to have him walk on it, and he will be the first in Heaven I run to meet. A guiding light for all who would aspire to be good, fair, nice,and noble. We humans do not deserve the likes of him. After all I have learned, he reminds me of how frail and silly I am in comparison. He destroys my arrogance, and simply makes me love.

I hope that this song is true -

And when I die I want no friends to cry for me...just homeless hyppies to play my MUSIC and dance...

I read somewhere they played this at Bruce Lee’s funeral

Ne pi tan nunmul

Let’s go love life legends never die carry on brah

Swear that there aint no Heaven,but i pray there aint no Hell

God Bless you epikate32.Ty for your service.I missed Nam by inches.But I have so much respect for the Guys and Girls that served.

I have 2 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AND FANTASTIC GRANDCHILDREN TO CARRY ON. A Daughter who is 27, a Son who is 22, a Grandson who is 7, and a Granddaughter who is 4

In a way their Lead Singer sounds like the LATE GREAT RAY CHARLES!!!@

I'm 60 years old, here in 2019. The last time I heard this song was 45 years ago. It has a deeper meaning to me now than it did back then, now that I'm disabled.

I hear you. I had a good life still do. Ups and downs pick yourself back up I've had open heart surgery 2011 I found hobbies and I'm raising my granddaughter

@Marilee Woods I hear you Merilee my granddaughter is the love of my life. She brings so much love to an old soul.😊

carry on and bless you

I swear there ain't no heaven nor hell..but wanna go naturally..💔😭

Legendary

.......only my dying will tell.....

When we die we will take with us what we truly own.

I think James Guercio had something to do with this song and inspired Chicago.

Great Vocals Talented Band Instruments Great Song For This Era

Sobreira para poucos rrsrsrs

This song would bring the house down if it was in a Broadway musical

Great Song Great Lyrics Great Vocals. 😁

Death is just the doorway Home!

70's music!

such great memories great music

did blood sweat and tears really do a cover of erik sattie and his variation on a theme. I just heard it on your thingingy u tube channel stuff. La diva s a good reference for that. a french film which envelopes those variations. . Thanks for an undiscovered moment in music.

Written by Laura Nyro and first recorded by Peter Paul & Mary 1966

she wrote this when she was 16

This one's to you, Åłyøna, Dear.

All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me. Exactly!

I'm sweating, bleeding and crying.

These guys were really out there...but they were fantastic !! All their songs were out there ..all brilliant. Thanks for posting

Perfect Song now and forever. 😃💖🤘

My mom used to play this song all the time. Now, when I listen to it, I think of her so much. Miss you Mom RIP.

welcome back bro ..dinky dau..!!!!

David Clayton Thomas and Burton Cummings from The Guess Who are the best pop/rock singers from the 60's and 70's in my opinion. Phenomenal voices.

Gary Puckett wasn't too shabby, either.

I'll have to look him up. Thanks!

I can't even categorize this song other than it's great music. And I suppose in the end that's all that matters.

These guys were amazing and way ahead of their time musically. SO underrated.

I heard this was Bruce Lee's favorite song. Not sure if that's true or not. But kinda spooky since he died young...

1 of my All Time Favorites!!!! :)

This was the first well-known band I ever saw in concert, at The Fillmore East on December 27, 1969. I was only 15 years old. They headlined, with Appaloosa and The Allman Brothers on the bill.
Me and several of my friends, all from the NJ 'burbs, saw many concerts there, but this was the first.
We went as BS&T fans but left as Allman Brothers fans.
It was a remarkable time for music and luckily I was in the best place to hear and see it. I had an olfactory flashback of weed wafting through the Fillmore as I wrote this.

Ya ya! 💋

Told my neighbor a few days ago that I was getting too old to be cutting grass every week. He looked at me, smiled, and said it was better that I was looking down at the grass than up.

Pray there ain’t no hell)

405 trolls

Just like Lennon, into one car into another, been on foot so a Mercedes Benz, Masseratti awaits me, ha, ha, ha, ha, hi, hi, ho, ho, ...... who knows...I don't, never knew my fate, never knew anything.....

You shouldn't drink 'n comment.

Good song for my soul. Pure excellence. Love it.♡

LOVE it 😍

The testament for most of us males back in the mid 60's to the mid 70's. Lookin to do a little liv'n before gettin a invitation to the DRAFT.

the worse song in history

I'm just fucking bored

Are these guys in the Rock N Roll Hall of fame?

I wish.

We've been posting this in celebration of a dear friend's life (he played sax in bands like this). I agree with others about having greater perspective about this song as I've grown older.

Wanted to hear this song for a longest time, did not know who sang or the title of the song very glad I came across it.

They were the BEST band ever! I’m sure that is debatable. But, in my mind they were the best.

Start to finish, one of the best albums ever!

this song went to #2 on the pop charts in 1969!!!

"If it's peace you find in dyin' then let the time be near." So true. I'm only 35 and look forward to dying. I've been "ready to go" since I was 17...

Patrick Sharp ♥️

Yep bro

These guys would have been AWESOME playing for Van Morrison! Could you imagine their horn section on a song like Domino?! That would be awesome!

DCT has more soul than most black singers combined. Not racist or anything just saying. The dudes a powerful singer!

I heard somewhere that Bruce Lee loved this song? Any truth to that?

I swear there IS a heaven and that David Clayton Thomas deserves to be there when it's his time to go. Thank you for your voice and music/songs sir! Respect.

THIS is gospel/soul music right here! These guys are mind blowing musician's! The real deal! Respect.

This song is so weird and wonderful and brilliant all at once. Bittersweet but comforting at the same time. Love the 60's sounding harpsichord and the "western cowboy" yee haw "hoe down" sound in the middle. These guys were brilliant musicians and WAY ahead of their time. I'm only 35 but I can hear the brilliance in this.

David Clayton Thomas and Burton Cummings from The Guess Who are the two greatest 60's pop/rock singers in my opinion. Listen to the PASSION in DCT's voice on this song! This song entertains and MOVES me! Respect to these dudes. They're the real deal. Not like today's auto tune pro tools crap "music"....

my Dad died quickly from a heart attack, sounds like his anthem

My Dad did too. I was 11 and I dreamed about it 3 days before it happened. It's the reason I could handle calling for the ambulance, because my Mom was so upset, she couldn't even Dial the phone. 1975

Why would 392 people thumbs down this. ?

They're afraid to live...🌠