According to blues guitarist and longtime wolf associate hubert sumlin the song uses the killing floor the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are killed as a metaphor or allegory for male female relationships.
Killing floor howlin wolf meaning.
The lemon song is obviously about not being able to leave a destructive woman perhaps due to the great sex she provides.
The killing floor is a place where animals are butchered.
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The original killing floor was about a guy moaning that he didn t take off with another woman who came up to see him from mexico and now he is stuck in a relationship he can t get out of.
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I have heard the howlin wolf version of killing floor here s what i think.
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It s possible that wolf picked up this use of killing floor to mean depression from the skip james song which is a haunting ode to the killing stress of severe poverty.
The family would continue this by calling the young man the wolf.
The name howlin wolf originated from burnett s maternal grandfather who would admonish him for killing his grandmother s chicks from reckless squeezing by warning him that wolves in the area would come and get him.
I should a quit you a long time ago.
He regrets having not followed his first mind or even listening to the advice of his best friend.
Hear me tell you people just before i go these hard times will kill you just dry long so.
Killing floor howlin wolf.
Produced by willie dixon phil chess leonard chess.
The killing floor is where animals are slaughtered at a meat packing facility.
Album chess blues vol 4.
The led zeppelin song that i chose to focus on is the lemon song and compare it to howlin wolf s killing floor.
The artist is comparing his present dilemma as an animal on the killing floor.
The singer has messed around around with a bad woman and has wound up killing someone.
Killing floor lyrics the howling wolf killing floor.
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The song was placed on the 1969 album led zeppelin ii.
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The credit for songwriting the lemon song was originally given to both jimmy page and robert plant.
Down on the killing floor that means a woman has you down she went out of her way to try to kill you.
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