
I Wanna Testify fue una canción grabada en un principio por el grupo soul The Parliaments como "(I Wanna) Testify" en 1967. En 1974 se le dio un estilo funk por el grupo Parliament y lanzada en su álbum Up For The Down Stroke. Roger la re-aregló para su primer sencillo solista, y como el tema solo fue acreditado a "Clinton/Taylor". Es posible que Roger quisiera dar a entender que George Clinton y Daron Taylor debían darle crédito por el cambio drástico de letra y música.
Roger la tocó a finales de agosto/principios de septiembre en el programa de televisión Marc, presentado por Marc Bolan, quien moriría en un accidente de coche semanas después de la actuación.
Créditos[]
- Escrita por: Roger Taylor, George Clinton, y Daron Taylor
- Producida por: Roger Taylor y Mike Stone
- Músicos:
- Roger Taylor: todos los instrumentos y voz
Duración: 3:48
Letra[]
We met each other introduced by her brother
A cat I'd known all my life
Parties and dancing,moonlight and romancing
Soon to be husband and wife
My friends call me crazy,her folks call her lazy
But our love counts for life
If we stuck together the pressures we would weather
Not knowing we were in for a fall
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Find yourself going down down down down
I'm going down down
I'm going down down down down down down down
Ow, I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
We had a boy
My pride and joy
I took a job day and night
Tired and wired
One day I got fired
That's when we started to fight
With time on his hands
A man ain't a man
And all he loves he starts to neglect
I didn't go far
Straight to the bar
And drank up all my self respect
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Find yourself going down down down down
I'm going down down
I'm going down down down down down down down
Ow, I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
Yeah, let me get on back to my story now
Yeah, about no-one
But my wife and my son
That's when I started to roam
Bar room to them
It happened so soon
I found myself on my own
She went back to her mother
I fought with her brother, yeah
And in my heart I know I was wrong
Please pay attention to the words that I mention, yeah
And listen to the moral of the song
I just I just wanna testify
Vídeos[]
Roger Taylor - 'I Wanna Testify' TV Appearance, 1977