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Tags: 1967 Dixon Doors The Willie
Channel: Music
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
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Length: 03:32
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The Doors - Back Door ManCopyright - 1967 Elektra Records"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon for Howlin' Wolf, released on Chess Records as a B-side to "Wang Dang Doodle" in 1961 (catalog no. 1777). The song is considered a classic of Chicago blues.In southern culture, the phrase "back-door man" refers to a man having an affair with a married woman, using the back door as an exit before the husband comes home. "When everybody trying to sleep, I'm somewhere making my midnight creep. / Every morning the rooster crow, something tell me I got to go / I am a back door man", Wolf sings. The promiscuous "back-door man" is a standard theme found in many blues, including those by Charley Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Willie McTell and Sara Martin; "every sensible woman got a back-door man," Martin wrote in "Strange Loving Blues" (1925). Robert Plant references the Dixon song in Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (1969): "Shake for me girl, I want to be your back-door man." The phrase "back-door man" dates from the 1920s, but the term became a double entendre in the 1960s, also meaning "one who practices anal intercourse."The song became an early standard cover song of The Doors, along with Dixon's songs "Little Red Rooster" and "Close to You". The Doors recorded it for their debut album, The Doors. The "door" of the song, like the name of the band, suggests a Blakean symbol of perception, with an awareness of the 1960s Queer-culture double entendre giving the expression an additional layer of meaning. The Doors' drummer John Densmore described the song as "deeply sexual and got everyone moving." The song also appears on The Doors' live album Absolutely Live (1970).Lyrics:Wha, yeah!, C'mon, yeah, Yeah, c'mon, yeahYeah, c'mon, Oh, yeah, maYeah, I'm a back door man, I'm a back door manThe men don't know, But the little girl understandHey, all you people that tryin' to sleepI'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah'Cause I'm a back door man, The men don't knowBut the little girls understand, All right, yeahYou men eat your dinner, Eat your pork and beansI eat more chicken, Than any man ever seen, yeah, yeahI'm a back door man, wha, The men don't knowBut the little girl understandWell, I'm a back door manI'm a back door manWhoa, baby, I'm a back door manThe men don't knowBut the little girls understand |
