wilburys
Among all the so-called "supergroups" up through the years, the "Traveling Wilburys" is an outstanding project. Five rather different artists and songwriters were involved in making a bonus track "Handle with Care" for George Harrison's album "Cloud Nine". In addition to Harrison, they were Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. They'd individually and partly had connections before, assisting each other on various recordings. After this collaboration was finished, they found it relevant to make an album together. They used the fictional family name "Wilbury" - originated from the term "We'll bury it in the mix" when somebody made a goof - and adapted the artist names "Nelson Wilbury" (Harrison), "Otis Wilbury" (Lynne), "Lefty Wilbury" (Orbison), "Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr." (Petty) and "Lucky Wilbury" (Dylan). And, chuckle, the drummer for the project, the famous Jim Keltner, was credited as "Buster Sidebury" on the resulting album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1", released in October 1988.
This song was the final track on the album, and was also, in January 1989, the band's second single. The video features Orbison as a guitar rocking in an empty chair aboard a train wagon - he died December -88, before the video was made.
All the songs on both this and their next and last album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3" (the "vol. 2 " is referred to as some bootleg I've never heard, if it ever exists) are credited "Wilburys", though most of them surely have one main songwriter. In this case, I expect it to be Harrison.
The Traveling Wilburys never travelled. And now, February 2023, three of them have crossed the line; only Lynne and Dylan are left. And there were never a question about subsituting Orbison; it would have been Traveling Sillyburys :-D
well it's all right : riding around in the breeze
well it's all right : if you live the life you please
well it's all right : doing the best you can
well it's all right : as long as you lend a hand
you can sit around and wait for the phone to ring [at the end of the line]
waiting for someone to tell you everything [at the end of the line]
sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring [at the end of the line]
maybe a diamond ring
well it's all right : even if they say you're wrong
well it's all right : sometimes you gotta be strong
well it's all right : as long as you got somewhere to lay
well it's all right : everyday is judgment day
maybe somewhere down the road aways [at the end of the line]
you'll think of me : wonder where I am these days [at the end of the line]
maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays [at the end of the line]
purple haze
well it's all right : even when push comes to shove
well it's all right : if you got someone to love
well it's all right : everything'll work out fine
well it's all right : we're going to the end of the line
don't have to be ashamed of the car I drive [at the end of the line]
I'm glad to be here : happy to be alive [at the end of the line]
it don't matter : if you're by my side [at the end of the line]
I'm satisfied
well it's all right : even if you're old and gray
well it's all right : you still got something to say
well it's all right : remember to live and let live
well it's all right : the best you can do is forgive
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Chords in brackets may be omitted.
A... D A G well it's all right riding around in the breeze D A D well it's all right if you live the life you please D A G well it's all right doing the best you can D A D well it's all right as long as you lend a hand G D you can sit around and wait for the phone to ring G D waiting for someone to tell you everything G D sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring A ... maybe a diamond ring
