Williams, Lucinda - Magnolia Lyrics






Whippoorwill's singing
Soft summer breeze
Makes me think of my baby
I left down in New Orleans
I left down in New Orleans

Magnolia, you sweet thing
You're driving me mad
Got to get back to you, babe
You're the best I ever had
You're the best I ever had

You whisper "Good morning"
So gently in my ear
I'm coming home to you, babe
And I'll soon be there
And I'll soon be there

Magnolia, you sweet thing
You're driving me mad
Got to get back to you, babe
You're the best I ever had
You're the best I ever had

Magnolia, you sweet thing
You're driving me mad
I got to get back to you, babe
Cause you're the best I ever had
You're the best I ever had

Magnolia [x12]





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  1. C.... P....

    Impresionante

  2. D.... C....

    An very nice,loving tribute to J.J.

  3. C.... S....

    She has a way of undressing herself inside the lyric. As though she's making love to the words and if you're lucky they land on you.

  4. S.... S....

    What would the world be like without Lucinda's unique voice?...First time I ever heard her I had to ask WHO sings like THAT? I think we are part of the same soul- family....I will look forward to meeting her one day, even if it happens to be on the Flip Side.

  5. M.... H....

    how wonderful is this song

  6. B.... M....

    Lyrics


    Whippoorwill's singing
    Soft summer breeze
    Makes me think of my baby
    I left down in New Orleans
    I left down in New Orleans

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    Got to get back to you, babe
    You're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    You whisper "Good morning"
    So gently in my ear
    I'm coming home to you, babe
    And I'll soon be there
    And I'll soon be there

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    Got to get back to you, babe
    You're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    I got to get back to you, babe
    Cause you're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    Magnolia [x12]




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  7. P.... B....

    There was a lightness of touch on Lucinda's early albums that was lost after Car Wheels. She sounds here like she's just climbed out of the dentist's chair and slugged a bottle of Jack Daniels. The emotion on J.J.s original is so delicate and fragile and that's what makes it so affecting. Sorry guys...

  8. r.... d....

    Goosebumps...again

  9. T.... K....

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213955351140951&set=a.1391751996897&type=3&theater

  10. b.... h....

    thank you JJ and Lucy

  11. R.... B....

    Might be the best recording I have ever heard by anyone, god I love Lucinda doing this JJ Cale classic.

  12. m.... ....

    No better piece of music made in the last ten years.

  13. s.... d....

    i have a bastard of an illness motor neurone disease...scrolling through millions of my favourite tunes to play at my funeral...this is one of them...i live in a small country town in new south wales Australia- lucinda played here in 1991...who would have thought. cheers steve

    s.... d....

    I hope you are still around to hear what she's up to next. I'm so sorry for your illness. Who knows what's possibly awaiting us after we slip this mortal coil. I'm not religious but I think we might journey on in some way.

    s.... d....

    @The Tami Show I believe you are right.

    s.... d....

    You've the name of my live brother... and the soul of my sweet dead sister. I hope you leave love like both of them and like this song inspires. Love you, my long distance friend.

  14. M.... D....

    so beautiful

  15. J.... N....

    Poco did a real nice job with this J.J. Cale song as well on their Crazy Eyes LP

  16. D.... D....

    Magnifique.

  17. S.... &....

    sweet lullaby for anybody

  18. m.... ....

    lucinda luv...........the best!~

  19. V.... w....

    She does right by JJ on this one.

  20. B.... L....

    Lord have mercy, what a song.

  21. B.... B....

    "Magnolia" lyrics
    (originally by JJ Cale)

    Whippoorwill's singing
    Soft summer breeze
    Makes me think of my baby
    I left down in New Orleans
    I left down in New Orleans

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    Got to get back to you, babe
    You're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    You whisper "Good morning"
    So gently in my ear
    I'm coming home to you, babe
    And I'll soon be there
    And I'll soon be there

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    Got to get back to you, babe
    You're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    Magnolia, you sweet thing
    You're driving me mad
    I got to get back to you, babe
    Cause you're the best I ever had
    You're the best I ever had

    Magnolia [x12]

  22. R.... K....

    This wonderful woman and her voice makes me drift away everytime I listen to her. She rocks my world. Thank you Lucinda Williams.

  23. F.... M....

    i loves u 2

  24. H.... D....

    I Loves Lu!!

  25. m.... ....

    Lucinda will never get the credit she deserves for the quality of the musician she always brings...from Bonebreak to Frissell and others I cannot recall. Magnolia is her masterpiece in this regard.

  26. m.... ....

    The guitar work is incomparable.

    m.... ....

    Love it! Reminds me of the Stones guitar mate Mick Taylor...........GREAT STUFF!

  27. y.... ....

    obviously Lu's love lives in new Orleans

  28. L.... R....

    'Have compassion for everyone you meet,
    even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,
    bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign
    of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
    You do not know what wars are going on
    down there where the spirit meets the bone.' -Miller Williams RIP

    L.... R....

    I love that so much! Thank you for posting! Words to live by...such a great song and collaboration...Lucinda and her Dad...

    L.... R....

    Thank you for the words .❤@Lee Ross

    L.... R....

    ''Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.'' -Aeschylus

    L.... R....

    Thank you . I felt alone.

    L.... R....

    @Jennie Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZq3EQrwAkc

  29. E.... M....

    naild it baby.

  30. R.... H....

    Damn, girl. The best I ever had and we never even fucked.

  31. B.... E....

    cannot listen to this too many times, each. time I hear it I just melt in such a luscious way. thank you JJ thank you lucinda

  32. y.... ....

    who the fuck could thumbs down this song?

  33. M.... N....

    wonderful

  34. B.... E....

    beck does a really Good version of this but with all due to respect this arrangement and Lucinda's vocals ...
    well she stole it from JJ but somehow I don't think he'd mind.

  35. B.... E....

    six people need their thumbs stuck up their butts

  36. B.... E....

    this song is like one beautiful drawn out orgasam

    B.... E....

    f* yesss... endless neck kisses

    B.... E....

    What are you doing tonite?

    B.... E....

    Don't know wgos doing guitar work on here....K Vaughan? Very sensual stuff...

    B.... E....

    Beth Ewalt jj is allowing us to hear an Angel speak for him

  37. J.... S....

    her voice and words flow thru ur soul .... Bad Ass!!! rock it chick

  38. T.... ....

    Even better than her cover of the pretender

  39. B.... E....

    almost too moving and beautiful to put into word

  40. M.... D....

    she has a great guitar player

    M.... D....

    Stuart Mathis of The Wallflowers

    M.... D....

    --he is great, great, GREAT

    M.... D....

    BUICK 6 ?

    M.... D....

    Stuart and Kenny Vaughan both do some awesome stuff

    M.... D....

    What happened to Doug Pettibone?

  41. S.... M....

    Lucinda and fine wine......add the breeze .........oh my!

  42. s.... X....

    DPH is my magnolia and she was a sweet thing that always drove me mad
    Got to get back to that babe
    Cause She was the best I ever had
    magnolia

  43. A.... J....

    So very beautiful ! Her voice just wraps itself around you and doesn't let go.....

  44. J.... S....

    Cale me the breeze cry sister cry

  45. M.... S....

    Realmente una voz fantástica sin palabras !!!

  46. H.... R....

    The Best. (this is for you Dear Friend "I.P." miss you. R.I.P.

  47. R.... R....

    Lucinda, on recording Magnolia: "When we went in to record, he (JJ Cale) had passed away not too long before and was kind of on people's minds, so we decided to do it. Everything was cut live, the basic tracks with everyone in there together, and we didn't sit down and arrange things ahead of time or anything like that. A lot of times I would just start the song off and the guys would fall in and we'd do two or three stabs at it. So ('Magnolia') was just completely spontaneous. We were going for the feel of it, and the vibe."

    R.... R....

    A fine job indeed.

  48. G.... ....

    extraordinaria!

  49. m.... ....

    Brilliant. The gitar work is evil sublime.....

    m.... ....

    molloyxx1 yes it is, they are weaving....

  50. J.... C....

    I can listen to this over and over. Great cover from a great album.
    What a huge talent she is.

    J.... C....

    Jim Caldwell be careful to

    J.... C....

    glad someone else listens over & over - was questioning my sanity

    J.... C....

    It's the 9th time for me today

  51. R.... W....

    ...when the doing meets the truth! - Great Lucinda Williams...

    R.... W....

    +Richard Wolter She just keeps doin Great music !

  52. C.... F....

    LOVE this CD :) LOVE this Song!

  53. G.... L....

    With all due respect to JJ Cale, Lucinda owns this song now. Sometimes it just goes that way (see Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix).

    G.... L....

    HELLO
    Sometimes it’s just
    Like that

  54. s.... p....

    best album of the decade for me

  55. C.... H....

    best cd since youngs decade

  56. F.... ....

    Righteous

  57. g.... ....

    wonderfulwonderfulwonderfulwonderfulwonderful

    g.... ....

    great comment!

  58. T.... B....

    By far my favorite collection she's done..... and I've loved all of them!!!  This cover of JJ Cale's Magnolia is a great way for a 10 minute break.

  59. J.... D....

    JJ is smiling

  60. J.... K....

    Great cover of that great JJ Cale standard. Great vocalist with such soul !

  61. r.... h....

    magnifico thmax  wow no words

  62. m.... ....

    Wonderful cover of this amazing JJ Cale tune!
    This entire album sounds amazing...well done Lucinda!

  63. p.... ....

    If I listen to "this" (great musician Lucinda Williams) - from my (old) bones some very, very good spirit / vibrations meets myself :-) - Greetings from Nuernberg/Bavaria

    p.... ....

    I live in the finger lakes region of NY and have some old bones born in bavaria too. Got to see her live here at a great theatre on campus of cornell university and she takes your mind to a calm place, peace and love

  64. l.... ....

    best Cd of 2000's!