Lyr ADD: Twisted (Wardell Gray / Annie Ross)

Subject: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by Joni
From: Feebar
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 12:02 PM

hello

I know most of the lyrics to this song except for the bit

"I may have been only three, but I was swingin"

and then it's all a bit hazy until you get to "all because I wouldn't get on those double-decker buses because there was no driver on the top"

Can anyone help, please? (I'm sure it's folk after a fashion)

thanks

feebar

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by Joni
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 01:36 PM

Lyrics available at Leo's Lyrics - Twisted

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by Joni
From: alanabit
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 01:48 PM

Aren't the lyrics printed on the cover of "Court and Spark" on which the Joni Mitchell version appears?

Subject: Lyr Add: TWISTED (from Lambert Hendricks & Ross)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 05:46 PM

Here's the version from Joni's website - though please note that she didn't actually write this song - it's an old Lambert Hendricks & Ross number.

TWISTED

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it
He said I'd be better dead than live
I didn't listen to his jive
I knew all along
That he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought
I was crazy but I'm not
Oh no

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
He said I'd need treatment
But I'm not that easily led
He said I was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
And he thought I was nuts
No more ifs or ands or buts

They say as a child
I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening
I knew I was a genius...
What's so strange when you know
That you're a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be

Now I heard little children
Were supposed to sleep tight
That's why I got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic
Didn't know what to do
But I saw some crazy scenes
Before I came to
Now do you think I was crazy
I may have been only three
But I was swinging

They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at Edison
And also at Einstein
So why should I feel sorry
If they just couldn't understand
The idiomatic logic
That went on in my head
I had a brain
It was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When I refused to ride
On all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top

My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
But I said dear doctor
I think that it's you instead
Because I have got a thing
That's unique and new
To prove it I'll have
The last laugh on you
'Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one.

"Twisted" written by Ross & Grey @1965 Prestige Music BMI

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by Joni
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 05:47 PM

Oooops, sorry for the "she didn't write it" reminder - I've just re-read the thread title!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by J
From: kirstenanderberg
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 12:24 PM

If you have not heard Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, you need to! Joni not only covered their version of "Twisted" but she also covered their version of "Centerpiece" later on Hissings of SUmmer Lawns! LH&R are OUTRAGEOUS. I first heard them in the 1970's when my sister came home from UCBerkeley one Chirstmas with a LH&R album. I listened to it nonstop. Later, I was playing the streets of Seattle as a street performer and heard Orville Johnson doing "Give Me That Wine!" from LH&R. I have found that knowing their work has been an interesting vehicle on more than a few occaisions. I made my son listen to them. LH&R is essential for all those interested in great vocals and arrangements. I always felt that Manhattan Transfer was a cheap man's LH&R.

And nobody has mentioned it here, but that is Cheech Marin doing the "that chick is crazy" part.

Also Bette Midler did an excellent version of Twisted, it is different than Joni's version...more "clubby..."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by J
From: mack/misophist
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 08:52 PM

The later Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan are almost as good. That's after Annie Ross left to be an actress.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by Joni
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 01:37 AM

According to allmusic, the song TWISTED, which Annie Ross recorded, was written by Wardell Gray and Annie Ross.

It was also recorded by Emile-Claire Barlow; Monica Borrfors; Brother Weasel; Bob Dorough; Teddy Edwards; Lydia Gray; The Wardell Gray Quartet; Lenora Zenzalai Helm; Toni Jannotta; Ellen Johnson; Nancy King; Lambert, Hendricks & Ross; Bette Midler; Jane Monheit; Mark Murphy; Christiane Noll; Brian Ogilvie; Louise Rogers; Jimmy Rushing; Marlena Shaw; Crystal Waters; and Thomas Young.
Never heard of most of those people? I suppose it's because we've wandered out of the realm of folk into jazz.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Twisted' by Annie Ross (?)cover by J
From: JJ
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 08:59 AM

The spoken interlude in the Joni Mitchell version involves not only Cheech, also Chong! Very hip...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Twisted (Wardell Gray / Annie Ross)
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 10:28 PM

If you think that Annie Ross came out of
the jazz/pop equivalent of nowhere,
think again:

here is her aunt Ella Logan singing lead vocals on
"Exactly Like You"