Robert Johnson - Love In Vain Lyrics
"I wanna go with our next one myself."
And I followed her to the station
With a suitcase in my hand
And I followed her to the station
Well, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell
When all your love's in vain
All my love's in vain
When the train rolled up to the station
I looked her in the eye
When the train rolled up to the station
And I looked her in the eye
Well, I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome
And I could not help but cry
When the train, it left the station
With two lights on behind
When the train, it left the station
With two lights on behind
Well, the blue light was my blues
And the red light was my mind
All my love's in vain
Ou hou ou ou ou
Hoo, Willie Mae
Oh oh oh oh oh hey
Hoo, Willie Mae
Ou ou ou ou ou ou hee vee oh woe
All my love's in vain
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Robert Johnson Love In Vain Comments
I took my girlfriend to the bus station with all her clothes in two Hefty bags in her hands . Bought her a ticket to go back from where she came . When the bus left the station and was out of sight, I went home and removed the P pad off my Sporty . Good Riddance you maniac .
No doubt she made fast friends at the back of the bus .
all my love in vain
When the blue light was my blue and red light was my mind
Me tuve que fumar los 148 comentarios para saber que soy el único paraguayo que escucha esta canción. Ruego por la salvación del a lma de Rober Johnson
Jesus, his middle finger looks to be 6 inches long.If you don't have long fingers, you guitar playing will stall at the amateur level.
Beautiful song.
Utterly desolate.
0:08
"I don't wanna set the world on fire"
Wait wrong song
Don’t want to comment, but if there is spirits out there, there is no reason The Rolling Stones version should have more recognition than RJ, I always come back here.
me cure raja y estaba en una disco pasándolo como el pico. Esto si es vida.
This is one of my favorite Johnson tunes. Mick Jagger did a good cover of it on one of their albums, I think it was the one with the birthday cake on it.
It was on "Let it Bleed" 1969
It was also on the back side of the 45 single "Little Queenie" and its on the 33 LP "Get-yer-ya-yas out" too.
I listened to this song 25.5 times the day the siren went away. Pointless really
Choo choo
Dr Johnson...plays guiter as a piano
Legal 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
from the club of 27,R.I.P.
Matthijs tumbling dice...no way...arent you the guy from iorr???
The pioneer and the master of blues music..he dead in 1938,before jimmy page led zeppelin,ritchie blackmore deep purple ,tony lommi black sabbath and jimi hendrix born in the world..he is the bigger influence to blues and rock guitar musician..salute to robert johnson..
Ah this is beauty. !! The so far 27 morons should not give any opinions if they give this thumbs down. Beginning of Rock n Roll.
Anyone else see the demon in the top right above his guitar? Spoopy
Who hasn't lived those exact feelings in those lyrics? You're not human if you haven't.
Wonderful! 💗💗💗
Thanks for the upload! I wonder what he would have thought if he knew people would still be listening to his music in 2019? (Please dont say “yeah for sure shit he would’nt have drank the whiskey”) Great artist of music. A real pioneer :)
Edit ur comment to stop after 2019. Would be way better
I’m a bit embarrassed, I thought the Glimmer Twins wrote this
2019, April. Here to listen to the great master of the blues 😁
Paul Fusitua September 2019 for me, funny thing is I’m a teen.
@Danny Roberts Why the fuck does that matter?
The best blues man
Amazing musician 💞
oh c est foutrement surévalué
😢"WHOOooo, WILLie MAE!!!"😭
LAWD have mercy.....😔
When i was teen i was in love with him...obsessed in 1995 lol!!!!! The part where he says Willie Mae Willie Mae you hall be my wife some day....i imagined him singing to me MandaMae Manda Mae you shall be my wife someday....listen it sound like it. Luv u Robert!!!!
But you didn’t even know the guy...LOL..
Utterly bone chilling, father of 20th century music
RIP Robert
This guy literally sold his soul to the devil .. google it .
Yeah Google knows it all 😂
End of 2018 and still feeling it ..
shitty recording
heard the stones version first, which made me so damn upset for so many days I had to listen to the original. yep, still ridiculously sad. ugh at least it's a cathartic listen. why does he show me he cares but always keeps me at arms length? some day he'll be on that train and I'll be at the station watching the lights go away, or his time will come and he never let us be together. love is so damn mean.
Robert Johnson mentions his girlfriend Willie Mae Powell in this song. Powell was a cousin of David "Honeyboy" Edwards who traveled and performed with Johnson in the 1930's. Lonnie Johnson's and Leroy Carr's influence on Robert Johnson can be clearly heard in this song.
I named my guitar willie may because of this song
omg Mick Taylor's sole on the Stone's version is a classic
I always end a party with this song. Awesome song!
What a beautiful song from a fantastic blues musician. Too bad he was TOO MUCH of a womanizer. It literally killed him
The Blues: 20% chords, 80% pure magic soul
Listenining In 2017?
pra quem ja ouviu e reouviu 1 mil vezes as musicas da Amy Winehouse, jhonson quebra mt bem o galho, foi um otimo substituto, pra mim. Amei
Don't I know the feeling...
1.Get Yer Ya Yas Out
2.Robert Johnson
3.Let it Bleed
Sahnede söyledik bunu da söyledik haha gururluyum
I Love Robert Johnson
Thanks.
LONE this high-quality version! I can finally understand what Johnson is singing without all the pops and hisses that are on other versions.
Sorry Robert but the stones did a better job
Shannon Kearns
Nope
jj are you here? love kaleo💋
Just got Johnson tattoo... All my loves in vein... :o)
The greatest American song of all time.
The entire American experience is encapsulated in 2:29. In no other country does a song about sitting in a station waiting for a train to anywhere make any sense.
RManFlint - True, pure poetry. it sad but not sentimental. You can hear his pain when he’s humming the wordless sounds and her name. He tells the entire relationship story in 2 minutes
why you good god dont give me a guitar to sing and play this my love in vain. bob urgr8 4ever!
Amazing
brilliant legend for always.Touch my soul.
This is where the blues comes from.
Got a 2CD RJ bought in France with all the Johnson songs on it.
The Stones introduced me to Robert Johnson, thank you!
any dislikes on any robert johnson song is a travesty. Go listen to ABBA ya morons!
Shut the fuck up, don't insult ABBA or ABBA fans
do you even know what "travesty" means?
Just shut up and enjoy the music. Please.
ABBA is great tho
Your comment is more offensive than the 4 or so dislikes on this video.
I actually prefer this over the stones cover, this is a beautiful song
@ Joshua...My thinking is if RJ heard the Stones version he'd probably like that one better.
Thiz raw
I actually only found out about the stones cover thanks to your comment
Uhhh. Yeah! Wtf??
Both good imo, but this of course the original, which is important creatively. Tbf the Stones prob. did it partly as an homage/tribute and maybe a little as a ‘filler track’. An’ if I’m bein’ brutally honest, they didn’t really do *that much* with it... For the record tho’ - I think Jagger always had great natural feel for singing the Blues, and Mick Taylor was his authentic equivalent on the guitar... ‘Keef’ prob. just copied MT in the main... 🤣🤪
I can't get enough for this...
Peace and Love!
He sold his sould the devil you know
We all do in this material world dig it
Alex DeLarge oh well he's still one he'll of an artist
Devil doesn’t exist. In this context it’s a metaphor but the devil was created by humans to personify “evil”
and now i see how the Stones did it right
This recording sounds fabulous, even through computer speakers!
Mr. Robert Johnson. R.I.P
" The sacred is in the simple "
Well, this isn't quite sacred huehuehuehuehue
Its really not. Thats the sway and lure
@Pedro Miguel A. F. de Paula Its holy. Or unholy.. Depending.. if thats what you mean to say. What are you saying?
Mick loved it so much
Beautiful in all it's glory.
Classic, and sad.
May this song be re-discovert once more.
This is music from the heart and from the soul!!✌
This song is short and say all about the sadness of love.
+Jean-Marc Bordas And it's so American. Does it make sense in any other country for a broken-hearted man to be sitting at the train station waiting for a train to take him anywhere else?
@RManFlint Maybe, but that's not what the lyrics are about. The girl he loves is leaving, and nothing he says or does will change her mind, so all he can do is help her with her suitcase and watch as the train carries her away.
I really don't understand what the fuck white people find so great about this stupid jackass. He could strum a few chords, sing a few notes...so fucking what? I can play all his songs without even fucking trying.
@Andrew Power Thanks for your comment, happy to learn something new about RJ.
I'm not merely saying this because we just lost him a month ago, I have been saying this for decades. The most masterful guitar artist we had in recent memory was Prince. He was almost entirely self-taught, BTW.
WOW so fuckin ignorant! I think my fart has more cultural significance then your fuckin dumb ass comment. Go ahead and smell it!!
He didn't invent it but he sure as fuck mastered it!
Who wrote the song ?
because your not really good unless people want to beat you.
A poem. Simple and deep.
This and They're Red Hot are my two faves of his...
Why is this man not studied as the master poet he was?
@Massimiliano Bertani "he swaped his soul his soul with the devil"
Did you mistype "He was too good. Envious/jealous people thus made up a rumor to 'explain' why they couldn't be just as good ..."?
Robert is studied, copied, ripped off more than any other black american blues man. To assert that he isn't studied is absurd.
Johnny Joseph'sson Ike Zimmerman was Robert’s teacher, not Charlie
He was one of them. But it's said Ike Zimmerman was his main influence/teacher
Cause he stole all his tunes and guitar licks from Ike Zimmerman
Listen to Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake, and Blind Wilie McTell
you sure catch sarcasm
Tied with Lowell Fulson's 'Reconsider Baby' for my #1 favorite blues song..
@jsteelman1000 you're an idiot
I have always loved RJ, as a guitarist I never could figure his style, I have studied his teachers, Son House etc but I never could play the way he did, He does seem "other worldlly" He and Hendrix are of the same vein
@jsteelman1000
I assume thats a joke since RJ died in 1938 and the Stones didnt come along 'till 62..lol
Was he thinking about the Rolling Stones when he wrote that song ?
@jsteelman1000 Sorry for the late reply.
You need to go check out EC's album - Me and Mr. Johnson
Hello great vid what songs did Eric Clapton record that were written by Robert Johnson ?
John Steelman Clapton did an entire album of RJ songs, but Crossroads was a big hit for Clapton or Cream, ever how you want to look at that
Clapton has recorded everything Johnson ever recorded.
@Cannibalization yes i have but robert johnson has a certain...twist on play songs
@m16nut1 Ever hear of Mississippi John Hurt?
@m16nut1 Nope :)
no one is quiet like him now is there
Mighty tune, great pictures, thanks for sharing.