black night is falling
i keep crying for my baby
Oh how i hate to be alone, i ain t even got a friend
oh how i hate to be alone
I ain t even got a friend, brother s in korea
since i lost you
since i lost you
Since i lost you, oh how i hate to be alone, i ve got no one to talk with
Brother s in korea, oh how i hate to be alone, i keep crying for my baby
but now another day is gone
My mother has the trouble, since i lost you
Brother s in korea, oh how i hate to be alone, my mother has the trouble
I keep crying for my baby, i ve got no one to talk with
black night is falling
Oh how i hate to be alone, oh how i hate to be alone, i ve got no one to talk with
nobody cares about me
To tell my troubles to, but now another day is gone
don t even know i m living
My father has it too, black night is falling Black, i ve got no one to talk with
But now another day is gone, black night is falling Charles, i keep crying for my baby
I keep crying for my baby, brother s in korea, don t even know i m living
And i don t know just what to do, black night is falling
To tell my troubles to, my mother has the trouble
Oh how i hate to be alone, black night is falling, my mother has the trouble
but now another day is gone
To tell my troubles to, but now another day is gone
i keep crying for my baby
brother s in korea
Oh how i hate to be alone, when will my troubles end
Oh how i hate to be alone, i keep crying for my baby Night, black night is falling
Wow! Hauntingly beautiful. 1950's . Gave a shout out to all the brothers fighting and dying in Korea at that time while most of the music on the radio was good times. My heart and prayers go out to those who were there. Thanks for your sacrifice. Jesus, war needs to stop today.
Underrated song. I heard it first time about 20 years ago when i was a young man and depressed at the time. I had sunk down a hole and didnt even know it. I thought it was normal to be this way, though many thoughts was negative. I was living in a big city where i didnt know anyone, so i could relate to being alone and having no one to talk to. I was biking around the city alot, started to be on internet cafe's. Got to know some girl on the internet that brought me out of the depression somehow by just being there, being friendly. This must have been around 1997. I was listening to alot of old blues music those days. This song is very beautiful, and underrated.
I'm an Irish American kid who grew up in Brooklyn Ny. Went to school in Buffalo when I was 19 and someone started a Blues Band...I played piano and flute, and sang a few numbers. Then a Jewish kid from Queens came up, and he was so good on the piano, he wound up touring the world with Lionel Hampton a couple of years later....As soon as I heard this song, it touched me really deeply. I said, "That song is mine!" And I sang it. Boy, did Charles ever catch the loneliness of being a young man walking the city streets late at night with a broken heart....I could really identify with THAT. And the whole military thing...and the family problems...Four boys in the family, all dealing with the draft....I'm 62 now, and singing in a band that plays songs of all genres from the old days.....I laid this song on them, and they were hypnotized, just like I was....so the song is still alive in upstate NY where I live now! I only knew Buddy Guy's version til I heard this.....just satin smooth,beautiful, and REAL....thank you Mr Charles Brown.....
Can you feel the real life in this one? Yeh, sure you can, it's some moment, it was Charle's moment, but now we still get it, time has passed but we all can feel those black nights from time to time. Forever and a day, Charles Brown encapsulated a feeling that lives on, sheer eternal, living - against walls of darkness, still living. LIFE MUSIC.
Now you want to talk about some Blues? This was the deal right here. I was a kid about three or four and we'd lie in bed and our wonderful mother would play this and she'd be blue, we'd be blue - we actually had the blues because I had a brother in Korea too. Lawd. I said all that but the memories are still beautiful. This was life in Chicago. Everyone loved Mr. Charles Brown and I did too.
