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Take Me to the River (5:33)

Cover of Stop Making Sense

From Stop Making Sense and 33 other releases

originally done in 1974 by Al Green, Take Me To The River
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Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, drop me in the water, water

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  • FRAMERMCB

    One word...SWEET! David Byrne (et. al.) a master.

    21 May 9:54pm Reply

  • valplayer

    excellent

    18 May 10:16am Reply

  • outandabout93

    The comments are even better than the song !!! :D [2] More 'drama' please.

    17 Apr 4:02pm Reply

  • Eye_Gore

    Love that bass. Go Tina GO!

    19 Nov 2012 Reply

  • butterfly2273

    funny, i want to read more

    16 Oct 2012 Reply

  • FRAMERMCB

    David Byrne rocks! Great song...I want to go to the RIVER...NOW!!!

    21 Sep 2012 Reply

  • msippigirl

    The comments are even better than the song !!! :D

    27 Aug 2012 Reply

  • mattdh12

    June 24, 2012 Dear journal, 7:10AM - Just woke up, today is going to be a great day. 7:18AM - I am hungry and out of cereal. Time to run to CVS and pick up some Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs 7:35AM - Back from CVS! I bought 8 boxes. 8:25AM - Been eating peanut butter puffs for 50 minutes. Not quite full yet, think I'm going to do another 50.

    24 Jun 2012 Reply

  • nicejumping

    MartinCQuet: wow

    18 Jun 2012 Reply

  • Evilcabbage

    Didn't know last.fm was a journal

    29 Mar 2012 Reply

  • fakepony37

    Wow MartinCQuet that was quite a personal and bitter comment.

    23 Mar 2012 Reply

  • flickothewrist

    Brilliant re-work of a great song,always appreciated how artists can re-invent other people's music and stamp it as their own, mmmmmm.. wonder where I got that from?, marvellous

    17 Mar 2012 Reply

  • KeithandLor

    Genius..always....lyrically....and instrumentally.

    28 Feb 2012 Reply

  • Molks_Girl

    simply amazing.

    6 Feb 2012 Reply

  • Distron

    Genius!

    18 Jan 2012 Reply

  • pteronophobic

    Every time i hear this song it reminds me of the novelty talking fish...[3]

    24 Dec 2011 Reply

  • Ampuhedron

    Yep that singing fish has completely ruined this song for me

    8 Dec 2011 Reply

  • strummer13

    Every time i hear this song it reminds me of the novelty talking fish...[2]

    3 Dec 2011 Reply

  • xtwntraphq

    Take me to my Van down by the river!!

    2 Dec 2011 Reply

  • Paul_Brinkman

    David Byrne's Oscar was the final testament to the genius of the Talking Heads. I love these guys!

    19 Nov 2011 Reply
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