Kwam even binnenzeilen om te zien in wat voor toestand mijn toestand was

Wat verbindt een folkzanger die een zeurderige countryzanger is geworden aan een Northern Soulnummer en Nick Cave? Dit nummer, door The First Edition (ze zouden later Kenny Rogers & the First Edition moeten gaan heten)

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin’ out as I was a-crawlin’ in
I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted “April Fool” in big black letters on a “Dead End” sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah


Just dropped in (to see what condition my conditon was in), 1967
Psychedelische country door een voortzetting van de New Christy Minstrels…