Today is the final of the suggestions by Terence. This time is a second out-take from the Yesterdays album recorded in 1976, My Man. Around the time of the album’s eventual release in 1978 Shirley’s marriage with Sergio broke down, perhaps the reason for it not making the album due to the lyrics.
It cost me a lot
But there’s one thing that I’ve got
Is my man
Cold or wet
Tired, you bet
All of this I’ll soon forget
With my man
He’s not much on looks
He’s no hero out of books
Is my man
Two or three girls
Has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him
I don’t know why I should
He isn’t very good
He isn’t true
He beats me, too
What can I do?
Oh, my man, I love him so
He’ll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don’t care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
What’s the difference if I say
I’ll go away
When I know I’ll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I am his forevermore
Oh, my man, I love him so
He’ll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don’t care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
What’s the difference if I say
I’ll go away
When I know I’ll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I am his forevermore
My Man
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2 Comments
thank you for playing this on the blog. Interesting speculation as to why there are such things as outakes. Even so you would have thought that with compilation issues at later dates that unused tracks would have been utilised. Still what machinations go on behind the scenes what Shirley has called the “frusrations of the business” is anyones guess.
Wow! Thanks Astrid for posting, and Terence for requesting. Never heard this before but a storming version by Shirley makes you forget everyone’s else’s interpretations. This is one of the songs you just longed to have seen her singing live.