what is a yellow led bedder?

jackkeller
jackkeller Posts: 1
edited December 2003 in Words and Music...Communication
what's this masterpeice about? thanks and merry christmas!
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  • theskyiscrape
    theskyiscrape Posts: 69
    about the gulf war back in 91

    a yellow bedletter (yes it's written that way) it's the letter they send the relatives when a soldier dies.
    em ot sselecirp si y c a v i r p
  • lazygun_99
    lazygun_99 Posts: 73
    Well I did not know that. My first car was call Yellow ledbetter and it died when it went into a tree. Err so there
  • a country doctor
    a country doctor Posts: 145
    that with the car is funny, the other thing just the opposite

    i thought i may have to do something with this kind of inventer of the blues, his name was huddie ledbetter and his nickname was leadbelly

    anybody got an idea of the meaning of this song?

    I think this are the lyrics if anybody minds

    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...


    I don't think that this song has any meaning because Ed sings in live versions different texts
    BANZÄÄÄ

    When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
    By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
    So this is what it's like to be an adult?
    If he only knew now what he knew then
  • dorkette
    dorkette Posts: 45
    My grandparents lived on Ledbetter Street in Anniston, Alabama. Kinda cool.
    1800-suicide

    Well fads they come, and fads they go,
    But God I love that rock n roll.
    Modest Mouse
  • uzalive
    uzalive Posts: 25
    It is an anti-patriotic song written during the gulf war. I t does have to do with families that sent their kids off to war.

    Uzalive
  • JBuck31
    JBuck31 Posts: 10
    This is what it says from the lost dogs cd---


    Mr McCready-- a riff loosley based on..something i had during the ten sessions. I thought it was pretty. Eddie started making up words on the spot and we kept them. I still don't know what it's all about and I don't want to! I love it. Fans like it too!

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