Bruce Springsteen - The Big Muddy (Live 1992-11-15)

Bruce Springsteen - The Big Muddy at Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, CT on November 15, 1992. Intro to the song and lyrics below!

15.11.92 Hartford, CT, intro to “The Big Muddy”
“Thanks (crowd cheers) thanks…here’s, uh…here’s a song about…I think when we’re brought up, we’re all brought up to kind of believe that there’s good and there’s evil and that there’s right and there’s wrong and, uh…sort of believe in absolutes…then you get out, get out into the world a little bit and you get a little older and you find about all those spaces in-between those things all the time…and you spend the rest of your life trying to make your way, make your way through ‘em…and…this is, uh…this is a song about finding yourself out there in the Big Muddy (crowd cheers)…”

Album version

Billy had a mistress down on A and 12th
She was that little something that he did for himself
His own little secret didn't hurt nobody
Come the afternoon he'd take her wading

Waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start out standing but end up crawling, sonny

Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine
This old friend had a figure in mind
It was nothing illegal, just a little bit funny
He said "C'mon don't tell me that the rich don't know, sonny
Sooner or later it all comes down to money"

And you're waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start on higher ground but end up crawling, sonny
Whoa!

Well I had a friend, said "You watch what you do
Poison snake bites you and you're poison too"

Well how beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing
But you and I we're messier things
There ain't no one leaving this world buddy
Without their shirttail dirty or hands a little bloody

Waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawling, sonny
Waist deep in the big muddy

Waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
Woo whoa
Woo

Thanks to Brucebase Wiki "Storytellers" and Springsteenlyrics

[thetrevorosborne]

This is such a very underated song from a underated album

[SuzzyStohelit]

This is such underrated, 🎵 He always sings like he really means
I believe him ..

I'm very happy you uploaded this...hugs