help you on the way down the road

 

...And if they had the words I could tell to you

To help you on the way down the road

I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats

'Cause it's all been said before

Make the best out of the bad, just laugh it off, ha

You didn't have to come here anyway

So remember, every picture tells a story, don't it

Every picture tells a story, don't it

Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo!...

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These British guys --

Rod Stewart

the Rolling Stones

the Beatles

the Who

Eric Clapton

and many more.  What happened?  In the early 1960s these people just started exploding out onto the world with their revolutionary, positive sounds, and listeners were lifted and transformed, and life on earth was different from how it had been before.  It was as if a door had been opened.

When Rod Stewart references Dickens, Shelley, and Keats in "Every Picture" -- it's so typical of these English people -- they savor, treasure, and refer back to their history, literature, and traditions.

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, named in the song "Every Picture," wrote these lines:

The sun is warm, the sky is clear,

       The waves are dancing fast and bright,

     Blue isles and snowy mountains wear

     The purple noon's transparent might,

       The breath of the moist earth is light,

     Around its unexpanded buds;

       Like many a voice of one delight,

     The winds, the birds, the oceans floods,

The City's voice itself, is soft like Solitude's.

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Today's Rod Stewart song is not in the tradition of the last three, where they had movements, and different styles in various parts of the song -- this one is straight-ahead blues-based rock and roll.  Verses -- chorus -- instrumental break.

Go on You Tube, find the song

Hot Legs,

hold onto your hat,

and PLAY - !

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