Whether by design or by accident, the effect is to add even more nervous tension to the third verse, wherein the narrator asks for a decision from the girl. The group broke up in early 1975, and reorganized with a new lineup 18 years later following a reunion concert at the University of Missouri. If it's so, well let me know I love vintage music. Won't you let me meet you at the pool? Big Star's Chris Bell and Alex Chilton wrote some of pop music's most memorable melodies -- memorable for the relatively few listeners who were fortunate to hear them, that is. It is the perfect melancholy ballad, a song for which the loop/repeat buttons on CD players were made. Don’t have an account? There are few songs that capture the aching innocence of adolescence as well as the ballad "Thirteen," and fewer that are as pretty as this song. 11 Kylie Jenner. The song has a Zen/haiku-like quality in its concise, yet powerfully evocative form. View official tab. Rock and roll is here to stay Check out the tab » Backing track. Over gorgeous folk-pop acoustic guitars, Chilton's vulnerable-sounding voice shakes with the tentative insecurity of the 13-year-old narrator tenderly trying to gain the affection of his crush: "Won't you let me walk you home from school/Won't you let me meet you at the pool/Maybe Friday I can get tickets to the dance/And I'll take you, ooh/Won't you tell your dad 'Get off my back'/Tell him what we said 'bout "Paint It Black"/Rock & roll is here to stay/Come inside girl, it's OK/And I'll shake you/If it's so, well let me know/If it's no, well I can go/I won't make you." Maybe Friday I can Get tickets for the dance And I'll take you, ooh ooh Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. Big Star – Thirteen. Beautiful, innocent song. Won't you let me walk you home from school? Big Star achieved cult status alongside such legends as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, bands who never achieved huge commercial success, but whose influence on pop music and bands who followed is immeasurable. I won't make you, ooh ooh. Well I'm only fourteen and I'm listening to it now. Last.fm Music | Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. / All rights reserved. Thirteen Tab by Big Star with free online tab player. Completely agree--this is written in the voice of a thirteen year-old. Won't you let me meet you at the pool? Recommended by The Wall Street Journal 1 Record in general show a band following their own muse at a time when hard rock and large productions were the order of the day, not well-crafted, West-coast-meets-Anglo-pop music. One accurate version. If it's no, well I can go Chilton's lyrics are so simple and so clear that they seem effortless. That makes a lot of sense, I never quite got that, either. Author Unregistered. Maybe Friday I can It is the perfect melancholy ballad, a song for which the loop/repeat buttons on CD players were made. Won't you let me meet you at the pool? I was going to post my own comment disagreeing with the paedophilia-related comments, but this one was pretty much spot-on.
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