Janis it's a shame you couldn't do an up tune for us but I liked that one.
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Later in the show.
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Yeah, maybe later we'll be talking too. You're really shot after, after a number, let alone
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a whole evening I would think.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You tell me you kind of collapse after a show ?
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Well, I'm used to it because I'm so turned on by doing one that it's hard to do, it's hard to stop after one to tell you the
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truth, because it just makes you wanna do more.
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Your engine is revved up ?
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Yeah, sort of!
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I know all the hip expressions, you see. Your engine is revved up.
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You're a real swinger, I can tell by your shoes, man!
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Wait a minute, Janis, Janis. These were good enough for my grand-father, they're good enough for me.
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I had a lot of trouble, last week I, er, it wasn't that tune, we opened with another tune and I tore a muscle.
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I heard about this. You tore a mussel somewhere near Maryland. Er...
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It was closer to home than that!
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Well, er...
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But I played forty minutes, man! I did forty minutes!
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Yeah, but how do you, how do you tear a muscle singing, was it from the exhaustion or...
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No, I went... like that.
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You actually, literally tore a muscle... I mean like that...
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Every time, it hurt.
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Could you feel it go ?
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Yeah.
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Phew!
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Yeah.
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What do they do, do they set a muscle or do they tape you up or something ?
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They told me to keep still.
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Janis you wrote that tune that you were just singing like we just agreed to ask about. You er, you wrote the first tune,
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right ?
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I wrote the first tune. It's, er, yes I did, it's about men.
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It's about men. It's a little hard to tell what it was about 'cause I was standing over there where the sound is a little
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distorted.
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Well in my story that's what it is anyway.
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Yeah.
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D'you ever see those mule carts ?
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Yeah.
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They, er, there's a dumb mule on there right and a long stick with a string and a carrot, and it hangs over the mule's
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nose, and it runs after it all day long. Some...
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Who is the man in this, in this parable, the mule, or the person holding the carrot ?
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No, the woman is the, is the mule. Chasing something that somebody's holds her way.
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Constantly chasing her man...
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Yeah.
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... who always eludes her.
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Well, they always hold something more than they're prepared to give.
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I have to defend my entire sex, ladies and gentlemen! The burden of the defense.
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Go right ahead!
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Well, one-arm wrestling I can take you two out of three.
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I hope so.
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Do you, er, do you actually sit down when you get up in the morning and, and write out a song, or do you... When
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you say you write it, you compose it you write it on a paper.
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You just make it up, I don't write songs, I make them up.
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They don't exist on paper your songs, don't they ?
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Sometimes I just write down the words so I don't forget 'em, but I mean I don't write songs, that's a whole different
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concept. I just make 'em up.
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Yeah. Did you ever get back to Port Arthur, Texas ?
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No, but I'm going back next in August, man. And guess what I'm doin' ?
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I don't know.
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I'm going to my 10th annual High School Reunion.
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Oh! Oh! Take movies and bring 'em back to show us, will you ?
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Hey would you like to go ?
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Well, I don't remember, I don't have any friends in your high school class.
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I don't either. I don't either, believe me.
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You don't either ?
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It's hard going, man!
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Weren't you a kind of a, weren't you kind of a business administration major or something in high school. No, it's
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something in your past. You were...
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No, I worked.
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Yeah.
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But a high school major in Art does have plenty of time.
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Yeah. And do you think you'll have a lot to say to your old high-school classmates ?
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I don't have a lot, man.
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You were not surrounded by friends in high school ?
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They laughed me out of class, out of town, and out of state, man.
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Hmm...
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Somethin' goin' on.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Dick Cavett TV Interview
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| Janis Joplin |
