#SongLyricSunday July 18

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Our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the weekly prompt of break-up songs.

Take some time to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this music challenge, and even better, read as many of them as you are able to as you will probably find many enjoyable songs and it is quite possibly that you will learn a thing or two. Also feel free to offer up your suggestion to this week’s prompt.

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

My break-up song is one by the Allman Brothers called “Whipping Post“. I never get tired of listening to this song for many reasons including the great guitar work.

This searing song is about a man who has been betrayed by his woman to the point where he feels like he’s helpless – just tied to the whipping post, awaiting more punishment. Gregg Allman wrote it in Jacksonville in 1968, just after he returned from Los Angeles.

Gregg Allman was 21 years old when the song was first recorded. Its writing dates back to late March 1969, when The Allman Brothers Band was first formed. Gregg had failed to make a name for himself as a musician during a late-1960s stint in Los Angeles, and was on the verge of quitting music altogether when his brother Duane Allman called and said his new band needed a vocalist. Gregg showed the band 22 songs he had written, but only “Dreams” and “It’s Not My Cross to Bear” were deemed usable. 

Whipping Post was a song the band played at live performances and it was captured on the 1971 double album titled “Live at Fillmore East”. Once the album was released it got lots of airplay on progressive FM radio stations despite it 22 minutes of length. The song very seldom sounded the same at future live performances.

Here are the lyrics

Here is the recording on the Live at Fillmore East

Next week the prompt is Automobile, Car, Jalopy Vehicle