Doug Davis - Ain't Gonna Catch Me Cryin'

from Round 16, Week 12 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Oh, my - this one was fun! Is it worth anything? Well, that's a different conversation.

For this rewrite week, I wanted to find something that I could potentially use for either one of my two new bands, and I had a really hard time finding anything that 1) I liked; 2) that fit the genre/vibe needs; and 3) left enough room for tweaking and improvement. This Mitchell Snow song from a couple of rounds back was as close as it gets.

Mitchell wrote a perfectly passable, if slightly generic, Black Keys-channeling-Howling Wolf kinda thing. What I did to it is probably barely quantifiable as a "rewrite," from a songwriting perspective: I tweaked the chord progressions, added a post-chorus riff, tightened up some of the phrasing, and did some slightly more significant work on the melodies. Still, what I really wanted to do was to completely rewrite a lot of the lyrics, and I just ran out of time for that.

Arrangement-wise, though ... somehow, in my mind, I didn't really change that much about the arrangement/production approach, and yet, Mitchell's sounds kinda like the White Stripes, and mine sounds closer to stripped-down hair metal. This is probably as close to out-and-out metal as you'll probably ever hear me do.

I can imagine that with some further work, this could possibly make an interesting Gasket Hawkins horn tune. Not sure we'll see it again, though.

lyrics

(pretty much entirely the original M. Snow lyrics, with a few minor tweaks)

I was born at the bottom
Yeah, I’ve been here before
Hard luck times, I got ‘em
And I sure don’t need more

I know what you’re doing
You made a mess of me
You’re driving me to ruin
Wanna hear me beg and plead
Break my heart and strike me down
But, let there be no lyin’

Ya ain’t gonna catch me cryin’

II
I thought you were my lover
All you did was dog me ‘round
You aim to have me suffer
Watch my tears come flood the ground

Why you wanna break my heart
And make a mess of me
Watch my whole world fall apart
Have me wail in agony?
That something you’ll not see
Despite your tryin’

Ya ain’t gonna catch me cryin’

III
When at first we met
I thought you were the one
How can I forget
All the wickedness you’ve done?

You’ve taken all I treasure
You sure made a mess of me
I hope it brings you pleasure
To have brought such misery
I know I won’t be free
Til' I go down dyin’

But ya ain’t never gonna catch me cryin’

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from Round 16, Week 12, released November 27, 2017

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