Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon

Spill the Wine
Written by: B.B. Dickerson, Charles Miller, Harold Brown, Howard Scott, Lee Oskar, Lonnie Jordan, Thomas Allen
Comments: In the introduction to the live version of the song on 'Greatest Hits Live', Lonnie Jordan reveals that the inspiration for the song came when he spilled a glass of wine on a mixing board in the recording studio. Eric Burdon found the event funny, so he and Jordan used it as the inspiration for the song.


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Lyrics:
I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest
In a big field of tall grass
I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face

And I fell asleep and dreamed
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie
This really blew my mind, the fact that me,
An overfed, long-haired leaping gnome
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie

But there I was, I was taken to a place
The hall of the mountain kings
I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world
In front of every kind of girl
There was long ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones
Black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones

Out of the middle came a lady
She whispered in my ear something crazy
She said:

Spill the wine, take that pearl

I thought to myself what could that mean
Am I going crazy or is this just a dream
Now, wait a minute
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere
So it's all in my head
And then.
I heard her say one more time:


I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said:

Take your wine, take that pearl

Take that pearl, yeah
It's all yours
All you gotta do is spill that wine
Spill that wine, let me feel, let me feel hot, yeah, yeah, oh, uh-huh
Spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine
Spill the wine, spill the wine, spill the wine
Take that pearl
It's all yours

Singers:
1. Eric Burdon and War (billboard hot 100) May 1970 2. Melvin Sparks 1970 3. Lalo Schifrin 1970 4. Jimmy Smith 1971 5. The Isley Brothers 1971 6. Funkgus II September 1976 7. A Lighter Shade of Brown 1990 8. 2nu 1991 9. Freaked Out Flower Children 1991 10. Michael Hutchence April 1996 11. Eric Burdon Brian Auger Band June 30, 1998 12. Dioptrio 2000 13. Los Mocosos June 5, 2001 14. B-Side Players September 11, 2001 15. Alexander Zonjic November 23, 2004 16. Tony Rocker 2004 17. The Dream Syndicate 2004 18. Voodoo Mountain Zydeco 2006

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