Sunday August 16, 2020 Woodstock Day Two

Day Two at Woodstock presented a completely different problem from Day One, so many great acts who should we choose?  Santana, The Who, Sly & the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival and all with remarkable setlists.  But once again the choice seems obvious, Janis Joplin.

 Not much that we don’t know about her short life but in researching this I did discover that there is a story that she and Jim Morrison were at a party together and she wasn’t interested in Morrison’s relentless attention.  After multiple refusals she finally broke a bottle of Southern Comfort, her drink of choice, over his head and knocked him out.  I guess that’s another way to say ‘No!”

 So here’s Janis Joplin who famously once said "Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people - then I go home alone".

 This is not the Woodstock video version which doesn’t seem to be available, reportedly because Joplin refused to give the rights due to her highly altered state which she felt adversely affected her performance, but Janis needs to be seen live.

Try

(Just a Little Bit Harder)

You know you'd better baby and you know you got to

Try, try, try just a little bit harder

So I can love, love, love him, I tell myself

Well, I'm gonna try, just a little bit harder

So I can't give, give, give, give him to nobody else.

Well, I've been waiting for such a long time

I ain't gonna lose myself

(No, I ain't gonna lose it)

I ain't gonna lose myself

To make him mine, all mine.

 Yeah, I'm gonna try yeah, just a little bit harder

So I can give, give, give, give him every bit of my soul. (Hey!)

Yeah, I'm gonna try yeah, just a little bit harder

So I won't lose, lose, lose him to nobody, no.

Oh! Well, I don't care how long it's gonna take me

But if it's a dream I don't want

No, I don't really want it

If it's a dream I don't want

Nobody to wake me.

Hey, you better not do it! Yeah!

 Try yeah, try oh yeah, hey, hey!

Try yeah,

Try yeah,

Try yeah.

Try

 Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy

Well, every time I reach out I said baby

I know, know, know I got to try some more.

I said I got to put my arms around you

I said, I said I got to hold my demand.

I said I got to make you understand

Whoa baby, I said I gotta bring you round

Bring you round to the insight of me.

I said try, try, yeah, try, try, try, try.

Whoa try, oh yeah, try oh yeah, hey hey!

Try, oh yeah, try, oh yeah, hey hey!

 I gotta talk to my man now,

You know, I gotta work for my man now,

I said, I gotta feel for my man now,

You know I, I gotta work for my man now,

I think-a every day for my man now,

I think-a every day for my man now,

You know it, every way for my baby now.

Oh, try, oh yeah, oh try yeah,

Try yeah, try yeah, hey, hey,

Try, oh yeah, try ah yeah,

Try just a little bit