Warren Zevon Strung Out on Herion Again

"Carmelita" is is a song composed by Warren Zevon. He is known to have recorded a couple of demo versions and it was covered as far back as 1972 past Murray Mclaughlin before Zevon included it on his 1976 album, Warren Zevon.

Contents

• ane Nearly the Song
  • one.i Covers
• 2 Vocal Lyrics
  • ii.1 Alternate Lyrics
• three Encounter Besides
• 4 External Links

About the Vocal [ ]

The vocal is ostensibly almost a heroin addicted writer in love with a Mexican daughter, but, as with many songs on Warren Zevon, it might exist more than accurate to say that it is about Los Angeles than about the character in question.

Covers [ ]

Linda Ronstadt recorded a slightly altered version of the song on her 1977 album, Unproblematic Dreams. Rondstadt'due south version includes an alternating lyric that has Ronstadt pawning her "Smith & Wesson" as opposed to Zevon's "Smith Corona" thus re-casting our hero from writer to outlaw. In a version released on Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, Zevon also sings most pawning a Smith & Wesson.

Another cover version of the song was released in 1992 by Tejano music legend Flaco Jimenez and country singer Dwight Yoakam on the album Partners.

G.G. Allin covered this vocal besides. He turned away from his typical difficult hitting punk to do a rather serene cover. The song tin be establish on the album Carnival of Excess and in an acoustic version on the soundtrack to Todd Phillips' 1994 documentary Hated. In the moving picture Allin can be seen playing the vocal solo on his western guitar. He keeps Rondstat'due south lyric about the Smith & Wesson, and changes the lyrics from "playing solitaire with my pearl handled deck" to "playing Russian Roulette with my pearl-handled gun".

Willy DeVille covered the vocal on his 2002 album Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin.

Counting Crows also released a embrace version of this song every bit function of a Warren Zevon tribute in 1999.

The vocal was also featured on The Wildhearts covers anthology Terminate U.s.a. If You've Heard This One Before Vol 1. This version, sung by Wildhearts bassist Scott Sad, features the altered lyric "I pawned my Gibson Thunderbird".

Michael Todd, bassist for Coheed and Cambria played a cover version of this vocal before one of their Neverender tour shows. Claudio Sanchez sang dorsum up vocals. Mic said it was a song that got him through rehab. He was there for heroin addiction.

Song Lyrics [ ]

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I hear Mariachi static on my radio

And the tubes they glow in the dark

And I'chiliad there with her in Ensenada

And I'1000 here in Echo Park

Carmelita hold me tighter

I call up I'm sinking down

And I'm all strung out on heroin

On the outskirts of boondocks

Well, I'm sittin' here playing solitaire

With my pearl-handled deck

The canton won't give me no more methadone

And they cut off your welfare check

Carmelita hold me tighter

I recollect I'm sinking downward

And I'm all strung out on heroin

On the outskirts of town

Well, I pawned my Smith Corona

And I went to meet my human being

He hangs out downwards on Alvarado Street

Past the Pioneer chicken stand up

Carmelita concord me tighter

I remember I'thousand sinking down

And I'yard all strung out on heroin

On the outskirts of town

Carmelita hold me tighter

I think I'm sinking down

And I'm all strung out on heroin

On the outskirts of town

Alternate Lyrics [ ]

Well, I pawned my Smith & Wesson

- Linda Ronstadt cover, Preludes version, "Carmelita 1974 Demo" (Warren Zevon - Collectors Edition)

Every time I hear the siren(s) blow (wail)

You know I almost have the (a) heart attack

And your big Samoan boyfriend

Says he's going to come up and break my back

- Preludes version, "Carmelita 1974 Demo" (Warren Zevon - Collectors Edition), some concert performances (such as The Offender Meets the Pretender)

Well, I'm sittin' here playing Russian Roulette with my pearl-handled gun

-G.G. Allin Cover

Come across Too [ ]

• Warren Zevon
• I'll Sleep When I'thousand Dead (An Album)
• Genius: The All-time of Warren Zevon
• Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
• The Warren Zevon Guitar Songbook

External Links [ ]

• A Case for Warren Zevon, Carmelita and Smith Corona - Smith Corona
• Smith Corona and Warren Zevon's Gun - Smith Corona

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