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Song: Bring It On Home
Album: Led Zeppelin II [released Oct 22, 1969 (US) | Oct 31, 1969 (UK)]
Single: N/A
Credited to: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Related Songs:
Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson (original)

Lyrics:

Baby, baby
Gonna bring it on home to you
I've got my ticket, I've got that load
Join up, gone higher, all aboard
I'm-a take my seat, right way back, ooh yeah
Watch this train roll down the track
Gonna bring it on home, bring it on home to you
Watch out, watch out, man move

Try to tell you, baby
What you tryin' to do
Try to love me baby
Love some other man, too
Bring it on home, bring it on home

Went a little walk downtown
Messed and got back late
Found a note there waitin'
It said, daddy, I just can't wait
Bring it on home, bring it on home
Bring it back home, bring it back home to me, baby

Tell you, pretty baby,
Love, you mess me 'round
I'm gonna give you lovin', baby
Gonna move you outta town
Bring it on home, bring it on home

Sweetest little baby
Daddy ever saw
I'm gonna give you lovin', baby
I'm gonna give you more
Bring it on home, bring it on home, bring it on home

Bring it on home, bring it on home to you

Personal notes: This is a great song. Half classic blues, half searing rock n roll. The blues harp on this song is excellent, and the rolling blues shuffle gets you moving. But when that rock n roll riff kicks in, you're bound to be bouncin' off the walls. A really great example of Led Zeppelin's light and shade philosophy, in the form of slow/fast, quiet/loud, and relaxed/explosive. Live versions of this song are excellent, especially the version on How The West Was Won.

Influences: This song was originally written by Willie Dixon, and recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson in 1963. The blues intro and outro to Led Zeppelin's version are exactly like the original, but the prize of Zeppelin's version is the middle section which is purely original, and pure rock n roll.



Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson

Baby, baby
I'm gonna bring it on home to you

I done bought my ticket, I got my load
Conductor done hollered, "All aboard"
Take my seat and ride way back
and watch this train move down the track

Baby, baby
I'm gonna bring it on home to you

I think about the good times I once have had
Soul got happy now, my heart got glad
I think about the way you love me too
You can bet your life, I'm comin' home to you

I'm goin home
I'm gonna bring it on home, now (x3)
Gonna bring it on home, bring it on home to you