Late Night OTB – Garth Brooks and Kiss
Garth Brooks covers Kiss’ “Hard Luck Woman,” with Kiss doing the instrumentals, on “The Tonight Show” on July 13, 1994. A much better version than the original, to my tastes anyway, owing to the fact that, unlike Peter Criss, Brooks can actually carry a tune.
HARD LUCK WOMAN
KISS (Paul Stanley)If never I met you
I’d never have seen you cry
If not for our first “Hello”
We’d never have to say goodbyeIf never I held you
My feelin’s would never show
It’s time I start walkin’
But there’s so much you’ll never knowI keep telling you hard luck woman
You ain’t a hard luck womanRags, the sailor’s only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queenRags, I really love ya
I can’t forget about ya
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your manBefore I go let me kiss you
And wipe the tears from your eyes
I don’t wanna hurt you, girl
You know I could never lieI keep telling you hard luck woman
You ain’t a hard luck woman
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your manRags, the sailor’s only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queenRags, I really love ya
I can’t forget about ya
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your manOh yeah, bye bye, so long, don’t cry
I’m just packin’ my bags, whoa, leavin’ you
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, baby, don’t cry
I gotta keep on movin’, yeah movin’
Bye, bye my baby
Ooh, don’t cry, lady, oh
This is clearly one of those songs that sounds better than it reads.
Kiss and Garth Brooks?
That’s gotta be a sign of the apocalypse!
Regards, C
for gawds sakes just stop, James, stop!
Nah. I grew up in rough geographic and temporal proximity with him (Garth). (We were born 60 miles and one year apart and we attended Oklahoma State Univ. at the same time. I never knew him). As I recall, everyone I knew was more or less equally conversant with Zeppelin, Sabbath, Kiss, Aerosmith, etc as well as Waylon, Willie, Haggard, Charlie Daniels, Moe Bandy and Conway Twitty.
Just a Cultural thing I guess.
I like it.
It’s fusion. And only underscores the universality of a good song.