Tina Turner

I wrote a letter to my love today
I wrote it so hard on what I gotta say
I`m down and out to tell you the truth
A man can make the poor girl sing the blues

You know what I couldn`t be with you
When there`s a chance please give me a clue
Untill I drown in a sea of booze
A man can make the woman sing the blues,yeah

Took my pride and I threw it away
You gotta release me from this suffering
You`ll find me everywhere running around
Untill you showed up to find me in the gutter

I wrote a letter to my love today
I wrote it so hard on what I gotta say
All my life is ending up the blues
A man can make the poor girl sing the blues
Yeah you can make the white girl sing the blues

Took my pride and I threw it away
You gotta release me from this suffering
You`ll find me everywhere running around
Untill you showed up to find me in the gutter

I wrote a letter to my love today
I wrote it so hard on what I gotta say
I`m down and out to tell you the truth
All my life is ending up blues
When there`s a chance please give me a clue
Cause you know what I couldn`t be with you
Untill I drown in a sea of booze

A man can make the woman sing the blues
A man cam make the white girl sing the blues
Yeah,yeah,yeah,oh yeah
You got me singing the blues
You got me singing the blues
Yeah,yeah,oh yeah
Yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah

Often dubbed the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner is arguably among the most iconic of female divas in history, with her prolific career and memorable personality as a performer and a public figure. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, and born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner has cemented herself as one of music’s greatest entertainers.

Turner’s career in music arose from her frequenting of nightclubs near St. Louis, where she would meet her soon-to-be husband Ike Turner, who would also give her the alias “Tina”. With Ike, she would form the famous Ike And Tina Turner Revue. A dynamic, explosive R&B ensemble, the two became the definition of the genre in the late 60s and early 70s, where R&B/Soul had only tiptoed into the realms of the mainstream. A particularly influential act in popularizing the genre, the Revue went on to release some of music’s most memorable and iconic tracks – a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, the Phil Spector-penned “River Deep – Mountain High”, and the electric “Nutbush City Limits”. After a host of drug and abuse problems on Ike’s part, with the male Turner eventually engaging in a violent altercation with his wife, Tina decided to leave her husband for the solo life – and it worked.

As a solo artist, with the help of fellow artists like glam rocker David Bowie, Turner tumbled into mainstream success in the 80s with the only number-one hit of her career – the unconquerable love ballad “What’s Love Got To Do With It” as part of her debut solo album, Private Dancer.

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