Staples, Mavis - Wrote A Song For Everyone Lyrics

I'm crying

Very awesome

Two of my favorite people on the planet doing a great version of one of my favorite songs!

Yeah, beautiful

Love this womans voice she is one of the greatest singers ever and the master and legend Jeff Tweedy JUST LOVE YOU

This is so beautiful!!

How does some teenage girl playing along with a SRV record or a homeless guy playing a bad out of tune piano on the street get over millions of views and this only get a couple hundred thousand?

💜💜💜 I don't have the words.

What a voice! What a song! Metta. :)

Goosebumps

How anyone could vote thumbs down on this I'll never understand. Jeff Tweedy is on cloud nine doing this duet with Mavis. The smiles, the chemistry the interaction between the two. It sounds fantastic. I love this video. Thank you so much for posting it.

this currently has 999 likes... and i want to like it! ... but should i?... i dont know if i deserve to be the thousandth liker.
999 feels lucky. or is 1000 better?
also, 'like' is such a mild and nondescrptive word for the way i feel about this song. it actually made me feel something, you know? i hope you arent so dead inside usually that you were as surprised by that as me....

How do people give things like this a thumbs down???? Do they just go around trolling randomly or something?

Thought the same thing.

It's quite possible that they didn't like the song, or this version of it. Each to his/her own.

Perhaps it’s because the song’s statement against bigotry rubs bigots the wrong way? We couldn’t even talk to those who hate.

I honestly find the voice a little jarring, like she was desperately gasping for air. I am not hating on the song or anything, but I can't honestly say I liked it. It made me a bit tired.
(I didn't downvote it though, of course.)

Like how he looks at her with loving admiration

Love this song and the whole album, it is so good!

I have the album, highly recommend it. The incomparable Mavis Staples. Produced by Jeff Tweedy of the group Wilco

Thanks, Paul Goode, what is your (American) football affiliation, if any?  Oddly, I never had any CCR album except probably a Greatest collection, if that, I always loved 'em. I just read this fan's review:  http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/creedence_clearwater_revival/green_river/reviews/9/                                                     sounds like a MUST to add to my collection. Fave CCR  moment: was in Madrid for a semester to study Spanish, August-December 1970...we Central North Americans frequented one of the popular discos then and we'd ALL hit the dance floor for CCR's incredible 13 (?) minute extended version of "Heard It Through The Grapevine" was played, which was every night I ever went there of dozens.

That's a wonderful story -- CCR is genuinely infectious. A friend who spent time in Mexico told me about kitchen workers who learned the phonetics of Have You Ever Seen The Rain and would sing it at top of their lungs whenever it came on the radio.

Re football, I bleed blue and green. BTW, I haven't lost a minute of sleep over the SB. The kid made a great play, and there's nothing to do but tip your hat to him. We'll get you next time!

Great, Paul Goode we do nothing but respect the Seattle Seahawks, great defense, Beast Mode is an incredibly REAL (from Oakland) and funny person as seen before that Super Bowl, I believe, playing Clueless Gamer on Conan O'Brien with Gronk, it was LOL, whether Marshawn or Conan was more hilarious so much so that Gronkowski was just another guy in that skit! (if not on You-Tube, I'd bet that January 2015 episode is on teamcoco.com/cluelessgamer.) And, most importantly, there's no QB more talented and fun I'd rather watch than RUSSELL WILSON besides TB12. I've been living and dying, mostly the latter until the magic of 2001 with the Patriots since I was 9 years old and they were one of the first AFL teams. Just glad you're not a Jets fan, LOL. As for the Giants, they beat us in those 2 Super Bowls fair and square, Eli and the Giants' Defended were incredible in both, the best team won...

The AFL Pats -- aka The Babe Parilli Era!

Marshawn was a riot on Conan O'Brien. If I were COB, I'd be begging the guy to come back. Beloved and highly respected figure in the Seahawk locker room, Lynch is very community-minded. The way he sticks up for Oakland is admirable, and he really cares about the kids there.

Russell is awfully good. He's just hitting his prime, too. You'll appreciate the extent to which New York sportswriter by the way he picked apart the Jets playing -- as one put it -- "on one leg." Something that he and Tom Brady have in common (besides beautiful spouses) is the purity of their drive to excel and to win.

Yes, The Sweet Kentucky Babe, Nick Buoniconti, Hall of Famer for the Marine Mammals, not his half a dozen years with us, and Gino Cappelletti. My favorite: Jim Nance, a baby bull at 6 foot, 250 pounds, extremely big for those days another in a long line of great running backs from Syracuse, was my favorite 1960's Patriot, I believe he was the among the first AFL players to grace the cover of Sports Illstated after his 65 yard run virtually untouched vs. another AFL team, this was regular season: 1966, 8 wins 4 losses and 2 ties. Nance our best player was out injured in the loss on the last game of the regular season to Joe Namath and the Jets prevented us from facing the Chiefs, whom we had tied 24-24 in KC, for the right to go to the first Stupor Bowl. Saw them several times at Boston College's Alumni Stadium and later Fenway Park. We should continue thus discussion on another You-Tube video about football. perhaps the NFL Network's "Full Color Football: History of the AFL" on it's 50th Anniversary of The AFL, I've got a DVD copy.

I was fortunate enough to see Mavis sing at the Williamsburg Music Hall in Brooklyn around 2 years ago, she was still great. And she sang this song too.

What u see here is communication through music.

And it did not fail.

LOVE IT!!!!

OHMYGOSH! The chemistry between these two is so beautiful.  Their souls are genuinely connecting.  They're feeling it.  The little exchanges and giggles (I LOVE where Mavis starts to sing her line early on "you're not alone" and kind of makes the "whoops!" face and they chuckle).  This is an amazing example of the healing and uniting power of music.  A middle aged white guy who played druggie rock n roll and an elderly black lady who sang gospel wouldn't be a likely pairing for some, but music transcends social barriers and finds common love. Truly beautiful in every way.

+Jinx Cain  I know what you mean ....so many older people are precious ,,,,like diamonds.  A beautiful performance, a powerfully resonant voice, and an inspiring, spiritual song.    Thanks.....Steve Dunster

God damn beautiful

Love this acoustic version.

Want to be dancing around the room - shaking a tambourine and singing along!  :)

Wow the soul in this song is incredible...great stuff

great waz to ruin beautiful song. smoking got her bad.

fantastic voice :) crawling skin effect guaranteed! :)

BIG SMILE. How can you not ? A feel good song from one one my favorite singers.
Mavis can be my grandma that I never had.
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Aw man that kinda hurts it was so Gd. Lovlovelove it.

Mavis is a gift from Pops Staples & Tweedy is a killa talent.da Rev Eddro

Thanks Jeff and Mavis for CCR!!!!!

one of my favourite videos on You Tube, I could watch this every day.

you should :)

Beautiful, simply B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.

Awesomeness...

The Wilco loft... What I'd give to be in there. Also, I think Tweedy and Mavis should record an album together. Not one where Tweedy just produces, but an actual Tweedy/Mavis album.

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Awesome cover

He is a beautiful guitar player.

Pure delight; they have great chemistry! 8)

Its a beautiful thing to see how much fun they are having

Wow!! All I got.

3 people that watched this are completely lost, and need more love in their lives.

That was her indeed. She is as much a legend as The Band itself is.

No, I think that he just recognizes that he is in the presence of greatness.

A true sister, and a true brother. And a burning rendition.

this is a fantastic cover ! Isn't she the one who also sang with The Band ?

They only did three songs together? I call bull crap!!

Love and admire Jeff Tweedy, but it's cool to see him take the back seat for a bit, makes him shine in a different way

OMG THIS SONG GIVES ME CHILLS , LOVE MAVIS

They cannot standing in the shadow of the God of music Mr. J.C. Fogerty leadsinger of the best band ever Creedence Clearwater Revival.

two words: fuck yeah

@hookedonMuSe i love every way about jeff.

Jeff plays the RIGHT gitter here, thx
what a duet

This song always reminded me of The Weight. Good easy feel.

Their smiles at each other speak volumes and give hope to our nation

Two great musicians + a great song (by John Fogerty in case some of you don't know) = perfection.

70 yrs old and beautiful.

beautiful !!!..... :)

@spootboy123 Hahahahaha. I was just about to say something along those lines, but you just put it perfectly. It's just pointless to dislike this video.

oh my my what a ridiculously good song.. wow.. may be one of the best I've heard from these two.

10 star

Luv it! and proof positive you don't have to be 19 in order to record great music.

Wow! This voice is a gift from heaven, I´m sure!

Mavis & Jeff....Nice!

No need to record these songs more professionally if you ask me! This is so super nice, super real and super cool!

I feel so grateful to have seen this, surreally great!

i like the way some chick workin out can get half a million hits easy and this cant get fifty thousand. guess i'll just listen to my music alone

Mavis rules ...!!! :-)

A roots-Americana fan's wet dream, sure, but more than that: great, great music. Thanks, guys.

Beauty song Mavis and Jeff...thanks Simon for turning me on to this

i love this song and two of you, thanks for beautiful song, antirecords.

@2224612 God bless you for being here 224612, testifying to paradise, from a perspective more broad and profound than I will ever understand.

she is singing it a full step lower than jon fogerty!

I love the way Jeff looks at her

Magic!!!

this is awesome

@bensmith3200 "Strangers stopping strangers...just to shake their hand" (check out Scarlet Begonias!)

It`s 2010 and baby don`t be nostalgic, be a witness! Hair raising, touching and present. Yeow.

thank you mavis.

just one word.............AWSOME !

jeff gets to hang around with all my fav'rite chix.

This song makes me want to go hug a stranger.

What a great duo. They seem to really enjoy one another's company.

Great Song did by the best female voice ever ...!!!

Tweedy is lovin' this...so am I.

Powerful.

a thing of beauty.