Lynyrd Skynyrd in Concert The Old Grey Whistle Test

Hello, again. Welcome to Whistle Test,

joining myself and the audience here live as always,

but tonight with a difference because tonight

we're at the Shepherd's Bush studio in London, the BBC Television

Theatre, and on stage with me now is the band who are going to take

up the whole of the next 40 minutes of tonight's Old Grey Whistle Test.

So, from the stage that brought you Vera Lynn, Bruce Forsyth

and Val Doonican this is Lynyrd Skynyrd.

APPLAUSE

# Eleven times I been busted eleven times I been to jail

# Some of the times I been there nobody could go my bail

# Well it seems to me, Lord that this ol' boy just don't fit

# Well I can jump in a rosebush and come out smelling like

WHISTLE

# Those misters dressed in blue never done so right by me

# Some of the times I was innocent but the judge said guilty

# I'm not one to complain son I tell you true

# When the black cat's crossed your trail, Lord

# Lord they're coming fast at you

# Double trouble That's what my friends all call me

# I said double double

# T-R-O-U-B-L-E

# Well I was born down in the gutter

# With a temper hot as fire

# Spent 90 days on a peat farm just doin' the county's time

# Well, now, even my mama said Son you're bad news

# And it won't be too long before someone puts one through you

# Double trouble That's what my friends all call me

# I said double double

# T-R-O-U-B-L-E

# Double trouble

# That's what my friends all call me

# I said, double double

# T-R-O-U-B-L-E

# Double trouble

# Double trouble

# That means two times bad

# Now I'll tell you plainly, baby

# What I plan to do

# Say I may be crazy, lady

# But I ain't no fool

# Your daddy is rich, mama

# You're overdue

# But I ain't the one, baby

# Been messin' with you

# Got bells in your mind, mama

# It's easy to see-uh

# I think it's time for me to move along

# I do believe

# Aww, you're tryin' to put a hook in me, baby

# Now you talkin' jive, lady

# When you say to me

# That your daddy's gonna take us in, baby

# Take care of me

# Well you know and I know, lady

# I ain't the one

# I never hurt you, sweetheart

# I never pulled my gun

# Got bells in your mind, mama

# It's easy to see-uh

# I think it's time for me to move along

# I do believe

# Time for me to put my boots out in the street, missy

# Are you ready, boots?

# Walk on!

# Well, now

# All right there, missy

# Let me tell you a thing or two

# How about it, baby

# Now you talking jive, mama

# When you say to me

# That your daddy's gonna take us in, baby

# Take care of me

# Well you know and I know, lady

# I ain't the one

# I never hurt you, sweetheart

# I never pulled my gun

# Got bells in your mind, mama

# It's easy to see-uh

# I think it's time for me to move along

# I do believe

# Oh I must be in some kind of conspiracy

# Oh, my goodness!

# Oh, no!

# Woooo. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you. Good evening.

OK, turn them up for me, please.

This is an old boogie from the South, right now.

# Call me the breeze

# I keep blowin' down the road

# Well, now, they call me the breeze

# I keep blowin' down the road

# I ain't got me nobody

# I don't carry me no load

# Ain't no change in the weather

# Ain't no changes in me

# Well, there ain't no change in the weather

# Ain't no changes in me

# And I ain't hidin' from nobody

# Nobody's hidin' from me

# Oh, that's the way it's supposed to be

# Well, I got that green light baby

# I got to keep movin' on

# Well, I got that green light, baby

# I got to keep movin' on

# Well, I might go out to California

# Might go down to Georgia, I don't know... #

Billy on the piano.

Yep!

# Well, I dig you Georgia peaches

# Makes me feel right at home

# Well, now, I dig you Georgia peaches

# Makes me feel right at home... #

Yeah, they do.

# But I don't love me no one woman

# So I can't stay in Georgia long... #

Take 'em.

# Well, now, they call me the breeze

# I keep blowin' down the road

# Well, now, they call me the breeze

# I keep blowin' down the road

# I ain't got me nobody Oh, no

# I don't carry me no load

# Ooh-ooh-ooh. #

Oh, yeah, mm.

Mr Breeze.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Woo!

Thank you.

This number is a number off a new album

that we've got coming out in January or February.

I forget, tell you the truth.

It's about the blues - the Same Old Blues.

Everybody's had the blues.

Lord knows, I've had my share.

Make it dirty!

You got it!

# Have you heard that rumour that's goin' around?

# My baby's got a man

# All the way across town

# It's the same old story

# Tell me, where will it end?

# Yes, I heard the news It's the same old blues again

# Well, I wrote you a letter

# Must have read it wrong

# Stood at your doorway and you was gone

# Took a lot of courage

# To let the telephone ring

# I got the same old blues Same old blues again

# Well, you gave me the business

# No, I didn't mind

# Cos I got a lot of patience

# Lord, I got a lot of time

# It's the same old rumour

# Tell me, where will it end?

# I got the same old blues Same old blues again... #

Daddy, play my blues.

# Going to find me a mountain

# And going to hide out

# Ain't talkin' to you, baby

# Lord, I ain't comin' out

# Well, I heard that rumour

# Tell me, where will it end?

# I got the same old blues Same old blues again... #

Hell, yeah.

Play my blues.

# Have you heard that rumour that's goin' around?

# My baby's got a man

# All the way across town

# Yes, I heard that story

# Tell me, where will it end?

# Yes, I heard the news It's the same old blues again

# I got the same old blues Same old blues again

# Eeeee-yeah!

# I got the blues, oh

# Uh-huh, yeah

# Same old blues. #

Oh, I got the blues.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

This is also a new number, and it's called Every Mother's Son.

Every Mother's Son.

Got a good message to it.

# I've been ridin' a winning horse

# For a long, long time

# Sometimes I wonder

# "Is this the end of the line?"

# No-one should take advantage

# Of who they are

# No man has got it made

# If he thinks he does, he's wrong

# Every mother's son

# Better hear what I say

# Every mother's son

# Must rise and fall someday

# I've seen it happen so many times

# So many times before

# Some man's got so much money

# He doesn't worry no more

# Or he's got such a pretty woman

# That'll treat him fine

# Well, my friend has been a fool

# It happens every time

# Every mother's son

# Better hear what I say

# Every mother's son

# Must rise and fall someday

# I'm not tryin' to preach to no-one

# To no-one at all

# I've seen so many of my good friends

# Just rise to fall

# Cos they got so much money

# Or a woman so fine

# My friends have been fools

# It happens every time

# Every mother's son

# Better hear what I say

# Every mother's son

# Must rise and fall someday

# Well, I say

# Every mother's son

# Better hear what I say

# Every mother's son

# Must rise and fall someday

# One more time

# Must rise and fall someday. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Woo!

Woo.

A lady just said, "Talk about Neil Young."

But I don't like to talk about gentlemen.

# Big wheels keep on turning

# Carry me home to see my kin

# Singing songs about the Southland

# I miss Alabama once again

# And I think it's a sin, yes

# Well, I heard Mr Young sing about her

# Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down

# Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

# A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

# Sweet home Alabama

# Where the skies are so blue

# Sweet home Alabama

# Lord, I'm coming home to you

OK, one more.

# In Birmingham they love the governor, boo boo boo

# Now we all did what we could do

# Now Watergate does not bother me

# Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth

# Sweet home Alabama

# Where the skies are so blue

# Sweet home Alabama

# Lord, I'm coming home to you

# Alabama

# Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers

# And they've been known to pick a song or two

# Lord, they get me off so much

# They pick me up when I'm feeling blue, tell me how about you?

# Sweet home Alabama

# Where the skies are so blue

# Sweet home Alabama

# Lord, I'm coming home to you

# Sweet home Alabama Oh, sweet home baby

# Where the skies are so blue And the governor's true

# Sweet home Alabama, Lordy

# Lord, I'm coming home to you Yeah, yeah. #

Whoo! Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

AUDIENCE SHOUT

Before we leave, we'd like to say thank you to our management

and to The Old Grey Whistle Test and especially to all the people

who came out to see us, cos it's been an honour for us.

Thank you very much.

We're going to try and play one as best as we can

for Duane Allman and Berry Oakley from the Allman Brothers tonight.

They were free birds, people.

CHEERING

# If I leave here tomorrow

# Would you still remember me?

# For I must be travelling on, now

# Cos there's too many places I've got to see

# But if I stayed here with you, now

# Things just couldn't be the same

# Cos I'm as free as a bird now

# And this bird you cannot change

# Ohh

# And this bird you cannot change

# And this bird you cannot change

# Lord knows, I can't change

# Bye-bye, baby It's been a sweet love

# Yeah, yeah

# Though this feeling I can't change

# But please don't take it so badly

# Cos Lord knows I'm to blame

# But if I stayed here with you, now

# Things just couldn't be the same

# Cos I'm as free as a bird now

# And this bird you will not change

# Whoa-oa-oa

# And this bird you cannot change

# And this bird you'll never change

# Lord knows, I can't change

# Lord help me, I can't change

# Lord, I can't change

# A free bird, yeah

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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