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21 Apr 99 - 10:52 AM (#72427) Subject: Take Out some Insurance On Me - Jimmy Reed From: JimFire Am looking for the lyrics to this Jimmy Reed Song. Would also like chords if you have them. |
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21 Apr 99 - 09:16 PM (#72578) Subject: RE: Take Out some Insurance On Me - Jimmy Reed From: Paul If you leave me baby And say you won't be back That would be the end of me 'Cause I'd have a heart attack CHORUS: You'd better get some insurance on me baby Take out some insurance on me baby 'Cause if you ever ever say goodbye I'm gonna haul right off and die Darling I will love you As long as I got breath If we should part I know sweetheart It would worry me to death (chorus) You know I love you baby Like I love myself I couldn't live if you should give All your love to someone else (chorus) I haven't heard it in a long time, but I'm pretty sure that's it. It's a typical three-chord song, but not in Jimmy's usual 12-bar pattern. As with all of his songs, it's either in the key of E or A (I think he only owned an A harmonica). This song is on almost every Greatest Hits album of his. |
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22 Apr 99 - 11:10 AM (#72724) Subject: RE: Take Out some Insurance On Me - Jimmy Reed From: Jon W. I have played it (one of the few songs I have actually played) in the the key of E. The chief feature is a quick change to an A chord on the fourth beat of the measure when playing the first two or three of the 4 measures of E in the first line. The chorus starts at the second line - two measures of A and two of E, one B, one A, then pause on E for a measure, then back to B to finish the turnaround. There is also a bridge between the second and third verses, which Paul omitted. I play the bridge modulated up to an A chord (as I believe Jimmy did also). Here it is with chord changes in parentheses:
Don't (A) get no sick, or accident, Note that the blues shuffle rhythm in this song and most of Jimmy Reed's songs consists of a measure of E-E6-E7-E6 or A-A6-A7-A6, one beat each chord, with each beat divided into two notes, the first being slightly longer than the second. It's not exactly a dotted eighth and a sixteenth, it's lazier than that. |
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22 Apr 99 - 12:15 PM (#72739) Subject: RE: Take Out some Insurance On Me - Jimmy Reed From: Peter T. You might be interested to know that the Beatles did a version of this on one of the recent re-releases of their early stuff. Yours, Peter T. |
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12 Oct 21 - 07:43 PM (#4122721) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Take Out Some Insurance on Me (Jimmy Reed From: GUEST There's more to this but I can't really understand him so I can't post it. lol The bridge goes: ??? sick, no accident 'cuz I'm healthy as can be. ???? Last verse: You don't know me baby, like I know myself, I couldn't live if you should give all your love to someone else. And then the last chorus. :) |
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12 Oct 21 - 09:06 PM (#4122728) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Take Out Some Insurance on Me (Jimmy Reed From: GUEST,keberoxu I know that I have heard a live recording of a performance by the late lamented Peter Green, playing guitar and singing, probably with Nigel Watson's Splinter Group in recent years. If I can discover more about the CD album, that's what it would have been, that has Take Out Some Insurance on it, then I will pass it on to this thread in a future post. |