Edit 2 for headphones, July 2021. Written by Ellington Jordan and Etta James. It was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, and then released in 1968.
Released by Chicken Shack in 1969. The original members included guitarist Stan Webb, singer and pianist Christine Perfect, later to become Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, bass guitarist Andy Sylvester and saxophonist Chris Wood.
Their version reached #14 in the U.K. in 1969, #20 in Holland in 1969, and in 1974 it reached #18 again in Holland. And that makes a greasy #19½ in the Dutch charts !
For some strange reason you won't find this song on any 'regular' "Chicken Shack" album, it is only on 2 cd album "Chicken Shack - The Anthology 1967-2001". This edit however made of the song on the album "The Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" (Columbia 510155 2), that says it is a "Chicken Shack" song.
I'D RATHER GO BLIND
(Ellington Jordan)(Billy Foster was only co-credited for tax reasons)(tax = ripp off people officially)(a variation on thievery)(a Dutch specialty)
something told me it was over
when I saw you and her talking
something deep down in my soul said "cry girl"
when I saw you and that girl walking
I would rather, I would rather go blind boy
than to see you walk away from me
so you see I love you so much
I don't want to see you leave me baby
but most of all I don't wanna be free
I was just, I was just, I was just sitting here thinking
about your kiss and your warm embrace
with the reflection in the glass that I to my lips baby
revealed the tears that will run on my face
I would rather go blind boy
than to see you walk away from me
so you see I love you so much
and I don't wanna see you leaving me baby
but most of all I don't wanna be free
baby, baby, baby, I would rather go blind
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