What Good Can Drinkin' Do - 1962 Young Janis Joplin [Live]

Done at a friends house in December 1962 its first song Janis ever recorded.
Early Janis Joplin showing off a different side of her voice.
Record Collector cites her intro to the song: Up steps a feisty young woman, one month short of her twentieth birthday. "Uh, this is a song called 'What Good Can Drinkin' Do', that I wrote one night after drinkin' myself into a stupor..."
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What good can drinkin' do, what good can drinkin' do?
Lord, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue

There's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain,
And there's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain
But I drink it down, an' the next day I feel the same

Gimme whiskey, gimme bourbon, give me gin
Oh, gimme whiskey, give me bourbon, gimme gin
'Cause it don't matter what I'm drinkin', Lord, as long as it drown this sorrow I'm in.
My man he left me, child, he left me here
Yeah, my good man left me, went away and left me here
Lord, I'm feelin' lowdown, just give me another glass of beer
I start drinking Friday, I start drinking Friday night
Lord, I start drinking Friday, start drinking Friday night
But then I wake up on Sunday, child, there ain't nothin' that's right
What good can drinkin' do, what good can drinkin' do?
Well, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue!

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[meeshajunk45]

Holy shinola!! Ya think maybe she might have listened to one or two delta blues artists? Is this 1962 or 1932? What power, what control, what a force of God!!!

[CydAstaire]

so bluesy! you can definitely hear the bessie smith/memphis minnie influence in this

[pinchold pinch]

getting drunk, it seems, is a neat way to write songs

[Danielle Guzman]

same lol!

[Danielle Guzman]

this is amazing. I think she died so young because she was such an old soul

[Adamevalove]

she was way ahead of her time! amazing talent!!!

[claptongroupie]

she was the blues from the very beginning

[Wilhelmina Plumpwench]

Amazing - and true.  Another flame that burned fast and bright.

[1awesometiff]

fantastic! I can relate well to this song.

[buffa lee]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFantasti­c

[Joe Nania]

This is where it all actually begins for her....JANIS JOPLIN is 70 years YOUNG on this date of Saturday JANUARY 19 th 2013....she is 70 years YOUNG today....NUMEROLOGY here....43 years AGO she passed away...that was in 1970...she is now 70 years in age and was born in 1943....love, Joe a.k.a. Hollywood Joe

[diobestiamalata]

ma quanto spaccava sta tipa! maestra