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The orginal version of 'Say It Ain't So Joe' by Murray Head.
Other well known versions are by Gary Brooker and Roger Daltrey.
The story behind the song:
ACCORDING TO MURRAY HEAD:
Say It Ain't So Joe was provoked by a seventies documentary on Richard Nixon prior to his resignation.
The presenter was asking the editor of a small town newspaper outside Washington, how, in the face of conclusive evidence and proof, his readers could still show such undying support for the president they elected.
The editor likens the situation to a scandal in the twenties, when Joe Jackson, the famous baseball player, was rumored to have taken a bribe to sink his team in the final of the World series.
His fans hung around the stadium chanting "Say it ain't so Joe"
The song is about heroes and their "Clay feet'. It is also a plea from myself to the kind of 'Joe Public' who in fear of losing face, refuse to relinquish their faith in a fallen idol.
SOURCE: http://www.murrayhead.org/forum/expls...
EXTRA:
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of the best ballplayers of all time. He played in the 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox and had 12 hits and a .375 batting average. The 12 hits was a World Series record.
Still, when a number of White Sox players were indicted for "throwing" the series to the Cincinnati Reds in what became known as the "Black Sox Scandal," Joe Jackson was one of them. Even though he was acquitted by the jury, the new commissioner for baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned him for life.
When Jackson was arraigned in a Chicago courthouse, the story says that when he came out, a young fan came up to him with tears in his eyes and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Joe evidently acknowledged to his young hero worshipper that it was so, though in later years Jackson denied the entire incident.
LYRICS:
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
That's not what I wanna hear, Joe and I got the right to know
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
I'm sure they're telling us lies, Joe,
Please, tell us it ain't so
They told us that our hero has played his trump card
He doesn't know how to go on
We're clinging to his charm and determined smile
But the good old days have gone
The image and the empire may be falling apart
The money has gotten scarce
One man's word held the country together
But the truth is getting fierce
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
We've pinned our hopes on you, Joe and they're ruining our show
Ooh babies, don't you think we're gonna get burned
we're gonna get turned
we're gonna get learned
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
That's not what I wanna hear, Joe and I got the right to know
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
I'm sure, they're telling us lies, Joe,
Please, tell us it ain't so
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so
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