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You Better Run

Rating:
3.7 / 5

Words & Music: traditional

(Well now you'd better run)Run when I say, somebody's calling youYou'd better runRun when I say, (somebody's calling you)You'd better runRun when I say, (somebody's calling you)I feel like my time has long goneLong gone, (my time is long gone)Well now goodbye false pretenderLord I cannot wait for youFor the bible declares you're goin' to heaven LordWhat the bible declares you do(Well now you'd better run)Run when I say, somebody's calling youYou'd better runRun when I say, (somebody's calling you)You'd better runRun when I say, (somebody's calling you)I feel like my time has long goneLong gone, (my time is long gone)Long goneWell I met a false pretenderWhose head was bending LordI met him in the eveningHe was headed down that long lonesome road(Well now you'd better run)Run when I say, somebody's calling youYou'd better runRun when I say, (somebody's calling you)You'd better runGet away from here, somebody's calling youI feel like my time has long goneLong gone, (my time is long gone), long gone

Recordingdate: 1972/03/31, first released on: Amazing Grace (album)

Musicians

Musicians who contributed to the first recording of You Better Run:

(piano)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)

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ElvisDayByDay wrote on April 21, 2008
This is the kind of gospel music I really enjoy, it got "spirit" and that is what it's all about. The "praise the Lord" songs are not my thing.
Natha wrote on May 02, 2009
Gospel with an upbeat tempo and less gospelish. Hence quite an enjoyable recording. Apart from live recordings the main stream gospel songs are not on my daily or even monthly list. This is one of the few that make it from time to time.
jeremytcb wrote on May 03, 2009
Like this one and basically all of the gospel songs...the more "gospelish" and "praise the Lord" the better...=)
old shep wrote on February 01, 2010
I very rarely play gospel songs but this is certainly uplifting.
Jim Hoff wrote on February 01, 2010
You better tap those feet ;-) Rock wine in a gospel bottle....
shoesuedeblues wrote on February 01, 2010
More JD Sumner and co than Elvis, but a good track if only a short one.
sugartummy wrote on June 03, 2013
Elvis the bass-singer. Fast gospels are the ones I like most.
atomic powered poste wrote on November 04, 2019
One of those typical posthume releases i listened to exactly one time and that's it. It doesn't even feels like an elvis recording, more like a stamps recording. No vote.
Gorse wrote on November 04, 2019
As a recording this is not bad at all and is reminiscent of Run On but as stated this is a group record and the presence of Elvis is minimal, and if I am not mistaken the driving force is Charlie Hodge..
Cruiser621 wrote on May 18, 2020
Great tune, period.
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