Canta Robert Plant: “Spent my days with a woman unkind, smoked my stuff and drank all my wine”, con la chitarra acustica di Jimmy Page e il mandolino di John Paul Jones.
La canzone è probabilmente ispirata da Joni Mitchell, di cui sia Page chee Plant erano infatuato, tanto da invocare “Joni” durante le performances. Buona degustazione musicale!
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there’s a girl out there
with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
never let them tell you that they’all are the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
I wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.
To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I’ll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings… la la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin’ to find a woman who’s never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
