Cream - Badge - Lyrics

Описание: "This story is famous.
"Badge" was originally an untitled track.
During the production transfer for the album Goodbye, the original music sheet was used to produce the liner notes and track listing. The only discernible word on the page was "bridge" (indicating the song's bridge section). Due to Harrison's handwriting, however, Clapton misread it as "badge"—and the song was thus titled soon thereafter.

Harrison remembered the story thus: "I helped Eric write "Badge" you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that Goodbye Cream album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing – 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that, Ringo Starr walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park."

Common legends or misconceptions are that the name came about because its chord progression was B–A–D–G–E (which is not true) or simply because the notation of a guitar's standard tuning (E–A–D–G–B–E) can be arranged to spell "Badge".

Eric Clapton – vocals, lead guitar
Jack Bruce – bass guitar
Ginger Baker – drums
Additional personnel
George Harrison (credited, for contractual reasons, as "L'Angelo Misterioso") – rhythm guitar
Felix Pappalardi – piano, mellotron
I think George Harrison plays the arpeggio in the middle of the song. He also plays a similar arpeggio in "Abbey Road."
The guitar solo, of course, is played by Eric.　
"Badge" (1969)

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(Lyrics)
I'm thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car
I'm thinkin' that I might have drove you too far
And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table

I told you not to wander 'round in the dark
I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park
Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's married to Mabel

Well, I told you that the light goes up and down
Do you notice how the wheels go 'round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down
Yes, before they bring the curtain down

I'm talkin' 'bout a girl that looks quite like you
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle

Get up, get up, get up
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah