Home demo version
They caught Robert E. Lee by Lakeford Row
Staring at the story, wondering how it got so
The found him in a corner with his head in the sand
He wanted me, the US Army man
He wrote me a letter, asking if I'd think he'd move over there
Go Bobby help 'em, in Blackwood
Oh yeah
He said put 'em up and nobody gets hurt
In Blackwood, oh yeah
Everybody's looking for somebody
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for somebody
Oh yeah
EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY is a song written by Bruce Springsteen. It remains officially unreleased and apparently it was not recorded in studio.
The above lyrics are for a demo take of EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY. It was recorded solo on acoustic guitar at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ, sometime in 1979.
Springsteen recorded many demos at his home around the time The River was being cut in studio. These home demos were not professionally recorded; it seems that Springsteen used a regular cassette recorder. They were just song fragments, and there is much stopping and starting heard as Springsteen records bits and pieces, manually stops the recorder, and then returns sometime later to add more ideas.
This home demo version of EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY can be found on The Definitive River Outtakes Collection Volume 1 (E. St. Records) [disc 1, track 01] bootleg.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY on this website:
EVERYBODY'S LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY [Home demo version]