Take Me to the River

And it has like a little button you can press, and it turns its head towards the viewer, I guess, and wiggles its tail, and it sings cover songs.

And so originally it was Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy, and Al Green's Take Me to the River.

I want

to know, can you help me? I'd love to stay, but take me to the river.

Take Me to the River.

Okay,

it's a fish.

I get it.

But a strange group did a slowed down version of it, and it was very menacing, and it became such a huge hit it pissed off their singer, who resented the fact that it was a bigger hit than any of his originals, and he took his originals very seriously.

Talking about Take Me to the River, covered by The Talking Heads in 1978.

Take me to the river.

Al Green wrote Take Me to the River with his guitarist Teenie Hodges, and he put it on his album Al Green Explores Your Mind.

It's a song about baptism, a fitting subject for Green, who later became an ordained minister.

However, Take Me to the River wasn't a hit.

Take me to the river.

It did, however, attract plenty of covers from there.

But I have done it from time to time.

And my go-to tracks are either Take Me to the River.

That's the Talking Heads version for those of you who are specifically interested.

Not the Al Green version? No, not the Al Green version.

You know all of these songs.

Take Me to the River.

You know these songs.

You know them by heart.

Oh, I found the list of music.

So here's some of the songs.

So Mustang Sally, Take Me to the River, Chain of Fools, In the Midnight Hour, Try a Little Tenderness, which took me right back.

right back to John Hughes.

No time for dancing.

And 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food, which featured their widely loved cover of Al Green's Take Me to the River.

Take me to the river.

Both of those records were also produced by Eno, who would return a third and final time to produce Remain in Light.

Keyboardist Jerry Harrison, bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz, and lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter David Byrne were always shifting and changing how they approached songwriting.

There has to be.

Take Me to the River, Talking Heads.

No. Billy Bass.

[laughing]

You push the red button, he sings.

You push the red button.

Take me to the river.

Take me to the river.