Oldies (But Goldies) : The Box Tops

The Box Tops est un groupe pop américain des années 1960 dont le chanteur était Alex Chilton (âgé alors de seize ans). Ils sont restés célèbres pour leur tube The Letter en 1967, repris par Joe Cocker et Peter Tosh & The Wailers.

Hé oui, "The Letter", ce bon vieux tube des années 67-68 sur un thème qui n'a plus cours à présent : sans téléphone, sans internet, quel autre moyen de communiquer à distance y avait-il alors ? Ecrire, timbrer, poster : "Mon amour m'a écrit une lettre..."



The Letter
(written by Wayne Carson Thompson)

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

I don't care how much money I gotta spend,
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no mo'.
Listen mister can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once a-mo'--anyway...

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no mo'.
Listen mister can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once a-mo'--anyway...

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter.
Because my baby just a-wrote me a letter.