London Blues - Lyrics - Canned Heat

The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite, vocals, Alan Wilson, guitar, harmonica and vocals, Henry Vestine on lead guitar, Larry Taylor on bass, and Adolfo de la Parra on drums.

When I came here last year You promised much to me When I came here last year You promised much to me You lead me on and teased me You picked me up and let me down When I asked you here for dinner And you brought all your friends When I asked you here for dinner And you brought all your friends I said here I am feeding half of London And all I should be feeding here is you Well I took you to the music show And we wound up in your home Well I took you to the music show And we wound up in your home But you ran away and hid from me Left me walking the streets (of London) all alone Now you call me on the telephone There's a concert you wanna see Now you call me on the telephone There's a concert you wanna see Cause the Heat's in your town And your living right down the street On your way to the concert You want to stop by the hotel a while If you don't stop by the hotel, you can go straight to hell