Cream

Released: November 2, 1967

Songwriter: Blind Joe Reynolds Eric Clapton

Producer: Felix Pappalardi

[Verse 1]
If you lose your money
Great God, don't lose your mind
If you lose your money
Great God, don't lose your mind
And if you lose your woman
Please don't fool with mine

[Verse 2]
I'm gonna buy me a bulldog
Watch my lady whilst I sleep
I'm gonna buy me a bulldog
Watch my lady whilst I sleep
'Cause women these days
They're so doggone crooked
That they might make off 'fore day creep

[Chorus]
Well, you can't watch your wife
And your outside woman too
You know you can't watch your wife
And your outside women's too
'Cause when you're out with your woman
Your wife will be at home
Cooking your food, doing your dirt
Buddy, what're you trying to do?

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
You can't watch your wife
And your outside women's too
You know you can't watch your wife
And your outside women, too
When you're out with your woman
Your wife will be at home
Doing your dirt, cooking your food
Buddy, what're you trying to do?

The members of this power trio, formed in the autumn of 1966, were all veterans of the blues revival. Guitarist Eric Clapton was the same prodigy who revealed himself with the Yardbirds, and who had contributed to the legendary recording of Bluesbreakers with John Mayall. Drummer Peter “Ginger” Baker, skilled at many forms of percussion, had already played, in 1960, with the Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and in 1962 with Alexis Korner and the Graham Bond Organisation. Scottish bassist Jack Bruce had traveled some of the same roads as Baker, before joining Manfred Mann. Bruce and Clapton had met each other in the Powerhouse, a short-lived lineup put together by John Mayall, that also included Steve Winwood at the keyboard. With Cream these three virtuosos simply brought to fruition the experience that they developed in the London clubs, bringing to the rock concert stage long, electric, high volume improvisations.

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