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Track: Williams Blood
Artist: Grace Jones
Album: Hurricane

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Name: Grace Jones
Spotify Genres: art pop
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Jamaican singer, actress and supermodel born on May 19, 1948 [some sources claim 1950 or 1952] in Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies. She moved to Syracuse, New York, in her early teens, where her parents had relocated and founded the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. She moved to New York at 18 and began a modelling career that took her to Paris where she worked for [a1112433], [a1938466] and [a3909690] and photographers such as [a1493522] and [a2887188]. While in Paris, she branched out into a recording career, first as a disco diva, working with [a=Tom Moulton], before evolving towards a reggae / new wave sound created at [l264020] with [a5064] and marked by striking visuals created by her then partner [a250086]. Her first connection with music perhaps is her uncredited appearance on the cover of the 1973 reissue of [r3536194]. She published her autobiography in 2015, I'll Never Write My Memoirs (a line taken from her song Art Groupie), co-written with [a231640], in which she comes back on her early childhood in Jamaica, denies some longstanding rumours and fuels a few new ones. Grace is the granddaughter of [a3960002], daughter of [a1272793], sister of [a3849585] and [a1291649], and mother of [a1275577].

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Release: Grace Jones - Williams' Blood
Year: 2008
Genres: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Styles: Leftfield, Broken Beat, Free Funk, Tech House, Dub Poetry

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LYRICS

You Can't save me, you can't save a wretch like me
When she was seventeen
She married a Preacher Man
And she settled down
In a little part of town
Followed him all around
Having little babies
Singing in a little Church
In a little ghost town

She's so happy (I don´t want to keep up I can´t keep up)
She´s so happy, keeping up (I don´t wanna keep up, keeping up with the Jones')

Finally she told me
Grandpa Dan travelled
Playing on the road
With Nat King Cole
And he womanised
Staying up all night
Cruisin'up around the town
From town to town to town

(Let me go - ahhh ah Hurricane)
(Just let me go - ahhh ah I´m going to care)

Why don't you be a Jones like your Sister and your brother Noel
when are you gonna be a Jones your just like your Dad
God bless his soul

I've got the William's blood in me
I've got the William's blood in me
I've got the William's blood in me (I've got the Williams' blood)
I've got the William's blood in me
In me, in me, in me, running though my veins
William's blood in me

In a room full of doves
I'm waiting for the Angels
Spreading my wings
So I can fly
(Let me fly) Hurricane
-You can´t save a wretch like me-
(Let me fly ahhhh ahh - hurricane) (Let me go - ahhh ah Hurricane)
Why don't you be a Jones like your Sister and your brother Noel

(Thanks to Massimo for these lyrics)