One amazing woman... a tribute.

[Starfish]

She got brought up tonight. Thing is, this woman's voice, her spirit, her life really moves me.

A tribute to her here at lit is all I can do.

She was all woman, with a little girl heart.

http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/janis_1.jpg

 

[Laurel]

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a night on the town ?
I’m counting on you, Lord, please don’t let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

 

[TygerEyez]

*stands up, cheers, applaudes, whistles, and weeps*

Amen, Sister Star!

 

[Starfish]

http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/jjph1.jpg


http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/jjph8.jpg


I'm a caterpillar
I'm a caterpillar
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love,
For your love.

I'm a butterfly
I'm a butterfly
Flying for your love
Flying for your love
Flying for your love,
For your love.

Well, I'll be anything that you want me to be.
Baby, I'd even would be a-climbing up your tree.

I'm a pterodactyl
I'm a pterodactyl
Dying for your love
Dying for your love
Dying for your love
For your love.

I'm an abominable snowman
I'm an abominable snowman
Calling for your love
Calling for your love
Calling for your love
For your love.

Well now baby, I'll be anything that you want me to be,
Baby, a big monkey, a little monkey, a chimpanzee.

Oh now,
I'm a caterpillar
I'm a caterpillar
Falling for your love
Falling for your love
Falling for your love
For your love.

Oh baby,
Falling for your love
Falling for your love
Falling for your love
For your love.

Falling for your love
Falling for your love
Falling for your love
For your love.


http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/jjph11.jpg

 

[seXieleXie]

San Francisco Bay Blues

Got the blues from my baby
Left me by the San Francisco Bay.
This big ocean liner took her so far away.
Didn't mean to treat her so bad
She was the best girl I ever have had.
She said good-bye, and she made me cry
I'm gonna lay right down and die.

Well, I ain't got a nickel and I ain't got a lousy dime.
If she don't come back I think I'm gonna lose my mind.
If she ever comes back to stay,
Well, that'll be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay.

Sittin' in my back door
Wondering which way to go
That woman I'm so crazy about
She don't love me no more.
Lord, I think I'll grab a freight train
Because I'm feeling blue,
Ride all the way to the end of the line
Thinking only about you.

Well, meanwhile in another city
Just about to go insane
Thought I heard my baby
The way she used called my name.
If she ever comin' back to stay
Well, that'll be another brand new day
Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay
(I really mean it!)
Oh, walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay, whew!!

 

[CarolineOh]

Now, look at those pics of Janis, and look at Starfish's AV, and tell me they aren't twins.

 

[vylette]

janis joplin is a true legend...my fave is pearl...i absolutely love to have it playing in the background while i cook dinner...i back you in her tribute 110%...

 

[Starfish]

I better go out and get my feather boa.


No seriously, something just occured to me.

Let me register this.


Okay, most of you know what my name is.... Gretchen.

You're not going to fucking believe what my name means.
I looked this up one time in one of those "meaning of names" books.

It means "pearl".

 

[Lasz]

I love Janis!!!
she is the shit!!!
my favorite nympho!!!
I love Janis!!!!

 

[CarolineOh]

Synchronicity strikes again.

 

[Private Vasquez]

hear hear!

Can't nobody sing the blues like Janis can...

Me and Bobby McGee (the shiznit!)

sted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train
And I’s feeling nearly as faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,
It rode us all the way to New Orleans.

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.
Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby’s hand in mine,
We sang every song that driver knew.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

>From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun,
Hey, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.
Through all kinds of weather, through everything that we done,
Hey Bobby baby kept me from the cold.

One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away,
He’s looking for that home and I hope he finds it,
But I’d trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby’s body next to mine.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing, that’s all that Bobby left me, yeah,
But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la
La la la la la Bobby McGee.
La la la la la, la la la la la
La la la la la, Bobby McGee, la.

La La la, la la la la la la,
La La la la la la la la la, hey now Bobby now Bobby McGee yeah.
Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na na na
Hey now Bobby now, Bobby McGee, yeah.

Lord, I’m calling my lover, calling my man,
I said I’m calling my lover just the best I can,
C’mon, where is Bobby now, where is Bobby McGee, yeah,
Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lord
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee, Lord!

Yeah! Whew!

Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lordy Lord
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee

 

[Starfish]

Synchronicity strikes again.

http://www.baby-names-meanings.com/

Sorry, it's Little pearl

http://www.parenthood.com/parent_cfmfiles/babynames.cfm

Here too.

Still,


Sometimes I've wondered about this all, but I can't nor won't drink alcohol. It makes me extreamly ill, and I feel like I am going to die if I drink it.


http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/jjph2.jpg

I been rockin' and reelin', Lord as long as I can be
Lord, the man that I love tryin' to make a fool out of me.
Babe, I'm leavin', yeah I'm a-leavin' this mornin'
Goin' to Kansas City to bring Jim Jackson home.

Now well I used to drink and I'm gonna buy a gallon
I'm gonna find me my man I say, get a pair of overalls.
I'm leavin', yeah I'm gonna go to Kansas City, ha ha ha,
Goin' to Kansas City, yeah, to make my man my own.

I'll walk on Beauty Street with an idea I might stay,
If she wants my man I'll just change my ways.
Lord I'm leavin', yeah I'm leavin' this mornin'
Goin' to Kansas City to bring Jim Jackson home.
Go ahead, take it!

Yeah!

I been rockin' and reelin', lonesome as I can be
Lord the man that I love sure made a fool out of me.
Babe I'm leavin', yeah I'm leavin' this mornin'
Goin' to Kansas City tryin' to find a man of my own, yeah.

 

[Starfish]

And it's hey, hey hey,

She was standin' in the kitchen, honey, in her morning gown,
Lord, she was standin' in the kitchen, babe, in her morning gown.
She was standin' in the kitchen, honey, in her morning gown.

But I say hey hey, hey hey,
Lord, see see rider, see what you done done,
Lord, now, see see rider, honey, see what you have done.
Well, see see rider, see what you done done.

Well hey, hey hey hey, hey hey.

Well, the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad,
Lord, the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad.
Yeah, the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad.

Hey hey, hey, hey hey.
Lord, see see rider, honey, see what you have done,
Lord, well see see rider, see what you have done.
Yeah, see see rider, gonna see what you have done.
I say hey hey, hey hey.

http://www.arcana.com.pl/music/janis/car1.jpg

 

[TygerEyez]

I so WANT that car.... *drool*

 

[AmishPope]

Is it me or has Chevy Chase really let himself go in those pictures.

 

[Starfish]

Chevy Chase

He has, yes.

 

[freakygirl]

Ever since the first time I seen Starfishies pictures.. I kept trying to put a finger on where I had seen her before.


Now I know..

simply amazing..

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

Starfish, if I may ask, is that avatar pic really you? If so, you are beautiful and have a great resemblance to Janis Joplin. Only sexier.

 

[Wizard]

<Holding lighter in the air>...............................

 

[kotori]

Piece of My Heart

Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on!

Didn’t I make you feel like you were the only man —yeah!
Didn’t I give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can ?
Honey, you know I did!
And each time I tell myself that I, well I think I’ve had enough,
But I’m gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.

I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take it!
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!
Oh, oh, break it!
Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh, have a!
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby,
You know you got it if it makes you feel good,
Oh, yes indeed.

You’re out on the streets looking good,
And baby deep down in your heart I guess you know that it ain’t right,
Never, never, never, never, never, never hear me when I cry at night,
Babe, I cry all the time!
And each time I tell myself that I, well I can’t stand the pain,
But when you hold me in your arms, I’ll sing it once again.

I’ll say come on, come on, come on, come on and take it!
Take it!
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby.
Oh, oh, break it!
Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah,
Oh, oh, have a!
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby,
You know you got it, child, if it makes you feel good.

I need you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take it!
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!
oh, oh, break it!
Break another little bit of my heart, now darling, yeah, c’mon now.
oh, oh, have a
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby.
You know you got it —whoahhhhh!!

Take it!
Take it! Take another little piece of my heart now, baby,
Oh, oh, break it!
Break another little bit of my heart, now darling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh, oh, have a
Have another little piece of my heart now, baby, hey,
You know you got it, child, if it makes you feel good.

by Janis Joplin

Starfish, the resemblence is uncanny. What are your feelings on reincarnation? Maybe you had enough booze in your "Janice" life, and that's why you're sick of it now.

 

[Ishmael]

She got brought up tonight. Thing is, this woman's voice, her spirit, her life really moves me.

A tribute to her here at lit is all I can do.

She was all woman, with a little girl heart.

A woman of great talent. Her voice and lyrics truly took me into her world. There are few that could equal, let alone surpass her in emotion, strength of voice, or pure heart.

That being said, her life was a pathetic mess. Her misery and loneliness were reflected in her music. Perhaps one of the reasons that she could communicate those emotions to us so well. If my choices were that my grand-daughter could sing like Janis, but would have to live like Janis too. I would pray that my grand-daughter croaked like a frog.

Ishmael

 

[SpectralDragoon]

She got brought up tonight. Thing is, this woman's voice, her spirit, her life really moves me.

A tribute to her here at lit is all I can do.

She was all woman, with a little girl heart.

After reading the above, I was wondering who this person could be, I have a slow connection so the picture took a bit to load.

As soon as it loaded enough to see her face, I couldn't help but break into a grin. Janis definitely rocked. Her passion while singing is awesome.

The resemblance between Starfish and Janis is amazing.

 

[MysticSwing]

Now, look at those pics of Janis, and look at Starfish's AV, and tell me they aren't twins.

I know!! It's almost erie!

A great tribute to a great aritist, Starfish.

~~Mystic

 

[Jimi]

She had a BIG "Piece 'A " My Heart...

Arguably the BEST white female Blues singer - i still miss her - 30 years on...


COME ON, COME ON... Sleep well, my sweet Texan child.