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Alabama 3
Woke Up This Morning
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“Woke Up This Morning” is a song by Alabama 3 from their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane. The song is best known as the opening theme music for the HBO drama series The Sopranos (which used the “Chosen One Mix” that has lyrics in the second person instead of the first).
Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about 1996 murder case of Sara Thornton, who stabbed her husband after 20 years of abuse, mistreatment and neglect. The song is co-written with Jake Black. Contrary to widespread attribution, Leonard Cohen did not write or perform the piece.
A number of influential artists are namechecked:
* Charles Mingus and the album Pithecanthropus Erectus
* J. R. Monterose
* Jackie McLean
* Eric Dolphy
* John Coltrane
* Duke Ellington
* Lester Young
* Billie...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ When you woke up this morning ... With a blue moon in your eyes ... You woke up this morning ♫
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