yellow ledbetter

Edward the great

what is this song about and what is a yellow ledbetter??

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ahhhh, i don't think this question will ever have just one correct answer. Who knows?!

a country doctor

there are plenty off threads about that one, but because i am nice and because i have got a feeling today i will tell you a short summary

in fact most stuff about yellow ledbetter is quite unsure, the lyrics on the studio version are hard to under stand, ed mumbles a lot

in live versions ed often sings different lyrcis, the live at the garden one is about the 2nd golf war, ed sings about his brother who went to war and wonders wheather he will see his brother alive again and wheather his brother comes home in a box or bag, just damned fuckin awesome lyrics, probably the best pj lyrics ever on that version and fuckin awesome guitar of mike mccready

yepp, that's the next point; if you listen to yl you can hear the jimmy hendrix tribtute, listen to little wing, a pj cover of little wing and then to yellow ledbetter, then you will hear that yl is loosly based on little wing

and back to you origin question, in the first gulf war when the stuido version of yl was recorded a yellow bedletter/yeah, it's written that way) was letter the family of dead soldier recieved

humm, that was the most important stuff off yellow ledbetter
hope i could help you


here are the sudio lyrics

Yellow Ledbetter

Unsealed on a porch a letter sat.
Then you said, "I wanna leave it again."
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand. And on the sand I wanna leave it again. Yeah.
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away, yeah.
And they called and I said that "I want what I said" and then I call out again.
And the reason oughta' leave her calm, I know.
I said "I know what I wear not the boxer or the bag."

Ah yeah, can you see them out on the porch? Yeah, but they don't wave.
But I see them round the front way. Yeah.
And I know, and I know. I don't want to stay.
Make me cry...

I see... Ooh I don't know why there's something else.
I wanna drum it all away... [ ;-) ]
Oh, I said, "I don't, I don't know wheather I was the boxer or the bag."

Ah yeah, can you see them out on the porch? Yeah, but they don't wave.
But I see them round the front way. Yeah.
And I know, and I know. I don't wanna stay at all.
I don't wanna stay. Yeah.
I don't wanna stay. (x2)
I don't... Don't wanna, oh... Yeah. Ooh... Ohh...

ps i am not sure about everything i wrote, correct me if i did merde

EDDIEisMINE

I think its just a song eddie made so he could change the lyrics around or sing what he wants. Thats just what i think.

Not For Mickey

Or it's just a simple freestyle while Mike was playing the guitar...

crazycommisar

thats strange that someone mentioned hendrix, i was listening to yellowledbetter last night and my dad is like "you listening to hendrix?" i thought that was weird

Lotus

Originally posted by crazycommisar
thats strange that someone mentioned hendrix, i was listening to yellowledbetter last night and my dad is like "you listening to hendrix?" i thought that was weird

The first time i heard Yellowledbetter i was singing Little Wing... but then i heard it wasn't a Hendrix cover.

catefrances

Originally posted by a country doctor
And they called and I said that "I want what I said" and then I call out again.

Thank you.
I have never been able to get that line.
I was starting to think it was in a language other than English.