Canned Heat - Rollin' And Tumblin' Lyrics

Awesome version of this foot stomper! I've been working on an acoustic slide version lately that borrows from Hambone Willie Newbern's original 1929 recording with some nods to Robert Johnson's and Muddy Waters. https://youtu.be/7_3niUrP-Wg

The origin of this song is Hambone Willie Newbern's "Roll and Tumble Blues" from 1929.

Still 'Rollin and tumblin'...👍

kinda reminds me of doors - mystery train

Probably the same scale or key

Thanks G...for posting an excellent version of my fave album on here...I've been listening to this since I was 16 !...that's 51 years now...I thank God,it was this album,got me into blues at a young age...

From the one and only Summer of Love

Absolute magic!!

7 unmusical fucktards

Agreed complete numpties...

I guess the blues is an acquired taste . . .

And what do you do ?

You mean the assholes who thumbed this down right?

good music what i remember when i was a children rollin and tumblis, thogeter whit the mexican to the drum FITO DE LA PARRA.

The correct text is below:

 

Oh well, I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole
night long

Oh well, I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long

Oh well, I had the feeling, baby, something’s going on wrong.

 

Oh well, I really love you baby, come on and say
you'll be mine

Oh well, I really love you baby, come on and say you'll be mine

Well, If you don't like my tatters, don't dig up my
vine

 

Oh well, I cried last night, mama, I cried the night
before

Oh well, I cried last night, mama, I cried the night before

Oh well, I had the feeling, baby, you don't love me no more.





GUITAR SOLO

 

Well, if the river was whiskey, I was a divin' duck

Well, if the river was whiskey, I was a divin' duck

Well, I would swim to the bottom, baby I wouldn‘t come up

 

Oh well, I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole
night long

Oh well, I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long

Oh well, I had the feeling, baby, something’s going on wrong.

Thanks for posting the words. One microscopic detail, "If you don't like my taters, don't you dig up my vine" [makes it better than "tatters" here]. Double thanks again as I had only sketchy knowledge before seeing this Julian!

such an American sounding band but i loved them.

Bob Dylan did an excellent cover 10 years ago on "Modern Times". Most of the lyrics were new and written by him; but he cheekily claimed to have written the whole song!

Well you know he could only write a poem but can't compose a song ahahaha

Trevor Lyons Yes. One of the best songs on that CD!

TOP.....BEER BITCHS AND BIKES

love this song

a classic

Keep on we keep it alive all this great music,.

Keep on rolling love it

This is a variation of Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day."

are you dumb its Hambone Willie Newborn song that Johnson 'borrowed'

Covers were quite frequent at the time.

Good vibe and translatins

Wow, this bring back memories.  I still remember the asshole who stole my girl and this album!

You should kill them (those memories).

Gary Partain i

If you listen closely the song starts before the song starts

Vinyl rips are like that

stop trying to make sense of the lyric and feel the grove .Far out man.I astro projected to this tune man,

It's a cover, obviously, Eric Clapton and his bluesband with John Mayall had already did such a similar version in 1964 and so did many other musicians too, just check the Wiki page for Rollin and Tumblin. It may have even been evolved from other traditional black folk/blues songs from before Robert Johnson even, the man who sold his sould to teh devil they say, god I love American Blues Rock culture, and they call me anti-american just cuz I like the counter culture aswell.

Ummm....you have the lyrics completely wrong.

If the river was whiskey, I was a divin' duck
I'd swim to the bottom, I would never come up, etc.

Frank Cook was a WAY better drummer than Fito,but I still LOVE this band.

great version... and i would be a divin' duck. hell yeah

You got the words wrong....

If the the river was whiskey, I was a diving duck

Give Mr. Muddy Waters some credit, diving duck doesn't make a whole lot of sense but what you guys wrote doesn't even come close to what they're singing.

nice post...

Well in the river was whiskey I wasn't drive and drunk
Well in the river was whiskey I wasn't drive and drunk
Well I was whipped to the bottom baby I wouldn't come up

Oh well I'm rollin' and a tumblin' I've cried the whole night long
Oh well I'm rollin' and a tumblin' I've cried the whole night long
Oh well I hurt your feelin' baby, so this gone all wrong

Well if the river was whiskey I was a diving duck