On The Road Again

Roland of Gilead · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 1:52 pm

well i'm so tired of cryin' but i'm out on the road again
i'm on the road again.
well i'm so tired of cryin' but i'm out on the road again
i'm on the road again.
i ain't got nobody just to call my special friend.

you know the first time i travelled out in the rain and snow
in the rain and snow.
you know the first time i travelled out in the rain and snow
in the rain and snow.
i didn't have no payroll, not even no place to go.

and my dear mother left me when i was quite young
when i was quite young.
and my dear mother left me when i was quite young
when i was quite young.
she said "lord have mercy on my wicked one".

well now take it from me mama please don't you cry no more
don't you cry no more.
take a hint from me mama please don't you cry no more
don't you cry no more.
cause it's soon one morning down the road i'll go.

no i ain't going down that long old lonesome road
all by myself.
no i ain't going down that long and lonesome road
all by myself.
if you ain't coming with me,
gonna take somebody else.

well, i'm so tired of crying,
but i'm out on the road again,
i ain't got nobody,
just to call my special friend,
i ain't got nobody,
just to call my special friend,
i ain't got nobody,
just to call my special friend.

Nico · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 220

everytime i hear this song i`am try to take my guitar :strum:

I love this song especial the live versions.

Aekesis · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 7:09 pm

Yeah the live versions of this song are great ! :clap:

I love the beginning, with the guitar solo and everyone ready for what'll happen just few seconds after :woohoo:

duw1427 · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 9:06 pm

Things get right at home when I play this song over the soundsystem, because this is a song also my wife loves :approve:

aureus · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 9:30 pm

I should stop characterizing her songs, but for OTRA my opinion is the same as for MAIY and the Mockingbird song..

Live great, album more or less OK.
Yep, whenever I hear this song on the Moment by Moment DVD, I catch myself turning up the volume when the guitar solo is played.. Pretty cool guitar!

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 9:35 pm

One of the highlights of the Pictures Tour... Now I wanna dance every time I hear it, live or album version.

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

For me, this is the Katie Live Song. Have you noticed, how the audience use to get high with this song. Also compliment to Katie's magnificent band!!!

JosCR66 · **Posted:** May 28, 2008 9:38 am

A great driving song that simply sounds astounding live. Katie clearly enjoys this track, as she literally let her hair down while performing it. KEWA is right by saying that at the moment this is Katie's live song.

DavidA · **Posted:** May 28, 2008 9:31 pm

JosCR66 wrote:

A great driving song that simply sounds astounding live. Katie clearly enjoys this track, as she literally let her hair down while performing it. KEWA is right by saying that at the moment this is Katie's live song.

Agree with all that! My latest favourite version is the Berlin iTunes concert. She really gives it some in that!

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Also Paris is amazing. Katie rocks the town.

Also big, big compliment to the magnificient band

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Jun 21, 2008 9:05 am

KEWA wrote:

Also Paris is amazing. Katie rocks the town.

Also big, big compliment to the magnificient band

Having been there, I can only agree :clap:

Ronald · **Posted:** Jun 21, 2008 10:04 am

Not my favorite album song, but live this is a "must" :clap:

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Yesterday I played the live version from Paris of OTRA to a friend, who is a huge Hard RocK fan. he answered: "I didn't know, that Melua is a Rock beast! Great Song"

Now he wants a copy to show it to his friends.

duw1427 · **Posted:** Jun 27, 2008 4:35 pm

KEWA wrote:

Yesterday I played the live version from Paris of OTRA to a friend, who is a huge Hard RocK fan. he answered: "I didn't know, that Melua is a Rock beast! Great Song"

Now he wants a copy to show it to his friends.

This is the great problem many, many people only know Katies slower songs (I don't know who has gave her the name 'Queen Of Ballads'

) They would wonder when they see her life :approve:

There is an advertisment in Austria who uses the intro of 'OTRA' but I don't know if it is from Katie or if it is the original version.

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

duw1427 wrote:

This is the great problem many, many people only know Katies slower songs (I don't know who has gave her the name 'Queen Of Ballads'

) They would wonder when they see her life :approve:

There is an advertisment in Austria who uses the intro of 'OTRA' but I don't know if it is from Katie or if it is the original version.

I asked once SWR3 to play OTRA live from the Moment by Moment DVD and they answered, that it is hard to put a song directly from a DVD, but if there would be a live album, they would love to do it.

Nats · **Joined:** Apr 1, 2008 **Posts:** 1251 **Location:** SA

I would personally love to see Katie perform this one live. :strum:

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Jun 30, 2008 11:34 am

There's an OTRA live on the iTunes Festival in Berlin "album"...

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Nats wrote:

I would personally love to see Katie perform this one live. :strum:

it's breathtaking

Sebastian · **Posted:** Jul 16, 2008 7:48 am

roland posted in his opening post a video of this song. the last time im "youtubing" a lot and i found a video of katie melua and max mutzke at tv total (max mutzke was the opening act of her tour and you can see him in the video of rolands post at the guitar. there they performed OTRA as a duet. heres the hole video:

i downloaded this vid and i cut out the duet and uploaded it on rapidshare.com. heres the link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/130048129/01_-_Katie_Melua___Max_Mutzke_-_On_the_Road_again.mp3

this duet has only a duration of 2:32 min and the original OTRA a duration of 4:38 but i like the duet very much :strum:

(i hope that my english is not too bad

)

MelvilleB · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 8527

Thanks for the link Sebastian.

Ela · **Posted:** Sep 2, 2008 6:54 pm

I fell totally in love with this song again..!!
I´m just watching the Düsseldorf gig (2006) the second time, Peter posted in the download thread.
Jeeeez, this performance of OTRA is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
I wish I had been there, such a great vibe, such a great audience..everybody is clapping along!! "I wanna see your hands up in the air!" Awsome!

WATCH IT!! NOW!! :clap:

aureus · **Posted:** Sep 2, 2008 8:16 pm

We don’t have to talk about that, OTRA is just a perfect live song, absolutely brilliant, 'Uuuuaaaah-ish'. :mrgreen:

Patrick71 · **Posted:** Sep 2, 2008 8:43 pm

On the CD: Only an average cover-song.

Live: Wonderful, great, phantastic. A perfect live song :mrgreen:

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

aureus wrote:

'Uuuuaaaah-ish'.

Funny, in my new mobil, I have the possibility to use MP3 as ringtone. Every day another Katie song. Today it is OTRA Live in Paris. When I was in lab, suddenly my mobile rang and a friend of mine, who is not so much a friend of Katie (yes, sometimes I faail !!), asked me: "What, no Katie ringtone?". When I told him, it is Katie live, he didn't believe until i showed him the complete song. Now he wants to borrow my CD with the total concert!!!

Patrick71 · **Posted:** Sep 3, 2008 5:25 pm

KEWA wrote:

Now he wants to borrow my CD with the total concert!!!

Perhaps a new Katie-fan is born :rofl:

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