Lyrics for How Many More Times as interpreted by kevin

How Many More Times Lyrics
How Many More Times, treat me the way you wanna do? -X2
When I give you all my love, please, please be true.

I'll give you all I've got to give, rings, pearls, and all. -X2
I've got to get you together baby, I'm sure, sure you're gonna crawl.

(spoken)
I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it all over, just what I had missed.
Got me a girl and I kissed her and then and then...
Whoops, oh Lordy, well I did it again.
Now I got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But I'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind
'Cause I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine
I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.

Oh, Rosie, oh, girl. -X2
Steal away now, steal away -X2
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play.

Well they call me the hunter, that's my name.
They call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide, Ain't no need to run.
'Cause I've got you in the sights of my..........gun!

How Many More Times, barrelhouse all night long. -X2
I've got to get to you, baby, baby, please come home.

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floppy
09-24-2002

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This song is really sweet.`

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Heyheywhatcanido
04-23-2003

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Holy mother of all gods...i don't know y only 1 person has commented abou this song!?!?! This, out of every Zeppelin song i've listened to, has gotta be the one that has fiddled my fancy. This song makes me wanna be a rocknroll star. I love the design of this song. It has no main refrain (like many other Zeppelin song), goes into sort of a dreamy type sound in the middle. I love the words. Reminds when i just started dating this girl that i've already dated 2 times. Well that's all i gotta say. hope someone else can say somethin about it too

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AeroLed286
06-08-2003

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This song feels like a journey to me. Like a neverending jam. It is so good. I love the middle section, that sounds sorta Spanish, and then when it all stops and then the drums come back in right after that. Woo! Crazy good blues.

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Pabstdrinkin
05-05-2004

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my buddy says this song is about cheatin on his wife. he dont like doing it but he keeps on...

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NVarea
05-15-2004

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Well they call me the hunter, that's my name.
They call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide, Ain't no need to run.
'Cause I've got you in the sights of my..........gun!

I love Zep, but this lyric is directly stolen from Freddy King's The Hunter.

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pooface
10-13-2004

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This songs good, buts its one of the biggest rips,the bass is taken straight from smokestack lighting, and in the live version, jimmy plays the main guitar riff from smokestack lightning to it

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Royal0rleans
10-16-2004

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i dont know about that, live, the guitar is the same. I cant speak for the bass but page plays the same riff.

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bonzo1277
12-22-2004

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they knew they were taking it, it is intentional. they didn't know they needed to get permission until around '85, 5 years after bonzo. The hunter part is a vocalist in-joke

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JosephWolf
01-23-2005

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JPJ is really good in the intro. Is it him? I can't tell. Not to experienced.

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the_dew_man
02-01-2005

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the voices on this song is the best part i think robert plant did a great job

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RoboRobot
02-27-2005

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This in one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs (maybe even my overall favorite). I love the riff, even though it was taken from smokestack lighting, which WAS a Yardbirds song (I believe), which Page was part of. I like the live version a little better (The one on BBC sessions). One of my all time favorite songs.

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bonhamctb2112
03-04-2005

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this is one of zep's greatest songs. it just has that sound that makes it one of the greatest. i dont know what it is, maybe bonhams drums, pages guitar, plants voice, or jones bass, but it just all comes together and creates musical bliss

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ariel21
03-20-2005

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this is the best song to do a strip with

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j_flinch
07-14-2005

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this is one of my fav. riffs of all time.. the live version is freakin awesome

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pt
07-18-2005

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ii know it's to long for radio play, but i have always wondered why this song didn't get the credit it deserves.....Certainly my favorate Zepp tune to turn up.

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sdp
09-08-2005

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The spoken part of the song is interesting, because it's a switch in narrative from Plant's usual complaining that a woman won't stay faithful. In that part, Plant sings in the voice of a really sleazy guy within eleven kids who is having an affair with a young (probably underage) girl.

What's interesting is if the schoolgirl's name is "Rosie" because of a 1965 Kinks song called "Rosie Won't You Please Come Home." The Kinks song was about a girl who left her working class home to live in the upper class, but the first verse could be reinterpreted to be about a girl who left home-- perhaps ran away:

Rosie, won't you please come home
Mama don't know where you've been
Rosie, won't you please come home
Your room's clean and no one's in it

Oh my Rosie how I miss you
You are the world to me
Take a look and see if you like it
if you doubt it, please come back
etc.

What if Rosie left home, and she hooked up with a sleazy guy?

"How Many More Times" was done in 1968, so it's a contemporary to the Kinks song. Further, since Page worked with the Kinks back when he did studio work for "All Day and All of the Night", so there could be a lighthearted connection. This part of "How Many More Times" could be an explanation of where Rosie went after she left home. That explains Plant's character pressuring Rosie to leave her home and "steal away" to him instead.

The original Kinks song is sweet, while the Led Zeppelin song is rather menacing, particularly with the bow-work that Page does with his guitar. You get the feeling of a guy who is a lot older than Rosie, manipulating her for sex. To top it off, the character mockingly sings to her to "please come home" (around 7:43), echoing the original Kinks song.

If this was the intention of HMMT, hats off to Plant for a fun twist on the original song.

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roboknob
12-13-2005

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"Whoops , (oh Lordy, well) I did it again." --> did you ever hear of a song by someone called Britney Apears? :D

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roboknob
12-13-2005

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Written by Mudy Waters

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zeprulz462
02-03-2006

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this is one of my favorite zep songs, this song shows there creativity tward songs. The end is the best, the way everything comes crashing down, the drums the guitar and Plant vocals all merged in to one loud kick a$$ ending.

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Mad Slanted Powers
02-27-2006

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How Many More Years and Smokestack Lightning were by Howlin' Wolf. I listened to clips of each and they didn't seem to have the same riff as How Many More Times. The Yardbirds version of Smokestack Lightning does have a similar riff. The Hunter was by Albert King, not Freddy King. I recently noticed that lyric "Whoops, Oh Lordy well I did it again" while listening and I too thought of the Britney Spears song. Zeppelin's influence is far reaching indeed.

So, while this song ripped off at least three other songs, they were put together in a new way, and played in a way like none before.

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blackestdog
05-25-2006

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great song

I think on the live version from albert Hall, the song includes the riff from whole lotta love somewhere in the middle

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Yardbirdd
06-22-2006

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My all time favorite Zepp song. It just gets me groovin' and wanting to pick up my guitar and plug in the wah pedal that I still need more practice on..If you think about it, everyone get's something from somebody. Just like B.B. King said to Buddy Guy when King walked into a club Buddy was playing at, doing a straight on immitation of him. B.B. King said, "I'm playing somebody else's stuff, too, Buddy. We all got something from somebody."

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floydmaster
06-30-2006

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ripped off??? for fusing 3 different songs into a new one??? Doesn't that show a class all in its own...to be able to fuse tracks together...which Zeppelin could definately do...look at their medleys...but yeah...such a great song...recently rediscovered thanks to the new Led Zeppelin dvd in my mind

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Otto.M
07-23-2006

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The song is AMAZING, especially on the Led Zeppelin DVD, a 20-minute sojourn, with Jimmy Page's mind blowing solo, the improvised jamming, Plant's stunning vocals and then his howl of 'gun' when they pound back into the openning riff. Just stunning.

As for the meaning, I think it's about a man's infidelity to his wife (with eleven children), to a schoolgirl named Rosie and how he realizes his mistake and pleads with his wife to come home realizing how he f**ked up.

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RayMan
08-11-2006

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This track is now 37 years old... and if it was realised yesterday it would STILL be a HUGE hit!!! What energy! The wah wah at the beginning is classic, and the background music during the central narration is so surreal and haunting. By the way, hats off to "sdp" (above) for spotting that Zep/Kinks connection on "Rosie". Brilliant! But yes, this track illustrates the magic of the Zep "blues medley" theme. When Page and Plant first met they immediately found they had the same musical influences; medleys came natural. The explosive ending is awesome, and so this track was the natural choice for the ending to their debut album.

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