THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

and, speaking of The Kinks, this is another original song by them; from their 1971 Muswell Hillbillies album. Well I woke this morning with a pain in my neck, A pain in my heart and a pain in my chest, I went to the doctor and the good doctor said, You gotta slow down your life or you're gonna be dead, Cut out the struggle and strife, It only complicates your life. Well I cut down women, I cut out booze, I stopped ironing my shirts, cleaning my shoes, I stopped going to work, stopped reading the news, I sit and twiddle my thumbs cos I got nothing to do, Minimal exercise, To help uncomplicate my life, Gotta stand and face it life is so complicated, Ladi dah di dahdah, ladi dah di dah dah, You gotta get away from the complicated life, son, Life is overrated, life is complicated, Must alleviate this complicated life. Cut out the struggle and strife, It's such a complicated life. Like old Mother Hubbard I got nothin' in the cupboard, Got no dinner and I got no supper, Holes in...

Funny how often, one thing leads to another, quite unexpectedly... I was listening to the song "I Go To Sleep" being sung by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders when I thought that it would be cool to see a video of them performing it. (Well, this is just Chrissie singing it, sans the band.) I always thought it was "their" song. Well, it turns out that it is NOT their song, but it is a song that The Kinks did waaaaay back in 1965 on their second album, Kinda Kinks. Before I found that original version by The Kinks I stumbled across this mystical version by the stupendous Rasputina, featuring the amazing Zoe Keating! How about that? I Go to Sleep Lyrics