Ike & Tina Turner - Come together 1971

Ike & Tina Turner - Come together 1971
Original by The Beatles, released 1969

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He said "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He said "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me

Come together everybody
Come together
Come come together
Come together everybody

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[landline00]

So... you don't have to wear a meat dress to be cool?

[extremevalid]

If you like this, check out peaches and cream by the Ikettes. Shame to have to call them the Ikettes though as that SOB treated them like shite. History will remember Ike Turner as the man propped up by 1/2 a dozen great women so he could stand taller for just a little while longer than he should have......

[prknz]

i never thought of that...but you are correct sir..she would have been perfect!!

[prknz]

tina is unbelievable!! what talent...

[Germaine Rose]

You`re soooooo right! :D

[Alexandre De Oliveira]

like and kiss

[Izabo Darling]

I can't stop watching this.

Why wasn't Tina chosen to play Lucy in Sgt. Pepper the movie? I liked her as the Acid Queen in Tommy (of course), but she should have been given a much larger role in a rock opera and Lucy would have been perfect for her.

[Izabo Darling]

1:10 through 1:16

SO hot.

[Lynn Turman]

It's wordplay based on headlines he & Yoko were getting in the press at the time (mostly negative) for their "advertisements for peace." The point of the song is John saying for everybody to "come together" (i.e. give peace a chance) in spite of the fact that he & Yoko were clowns not to be taken seriously (according to the press).

[subg88]

I'm not saying Ike wasn't a SOB, but he wasn't just propped up by great women. He was one of the greatest innovators of rock n roll. Rocket 88. Nuff said.

[subg88]

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.

[subg88]

Lennon supposedly provided that line...believable considering some of his other tunes.