Live 13 Oct 1977 version
| Southside Johnny: | Well... |
| Southside Johnny: | Oh, baby |
| Southside Johnny: | What is that I see? |
| Soothe me, soothe me | |
| Soothe me, soothe me | |
| Soothe me, soothe me | |
| Soothe me, baby | |
| Oh, oh | |
| Oh | |
| All right, horns? | |
| All right | |
| We ain't never going that far back! | |
| Soothe me | |
| All right | |
| Hey, all right | |
| Hey, oh | |
| Oh, oh, oh, oh | |
| Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh | |
| Come on, let's get on | |
| Southside Johnny: | Oh, soothe me |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Soothe me |
| Southside Johnny: | Soothe me |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Why don't you soothe me |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on, baby |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Come on, baby |
| Southside Johnny: | I want you to soothe me, now |
| Bruce Springsteen: | I want you to soothe me, now |
| Southside Johnny: | Just come on and let the good times roll |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on and let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Yeah, baby |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on, babe! |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on and let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Ah, come on! |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | All night |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on, baby |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Come on, let the good times roll |
| Come on, let the good times roll | |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Soothe me, baby, soothe me |
| Soothe me with your kindness | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| Southside Johnny: | How I used to ramble (yes, you did!) |
| How I used to roam (are you ready, now?) | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Ever since I met that baby of mine |
| All I do is stay at home | |
| Southside Johnny: | Everybody, now |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Soothe me, baby, soothe me |
| Soothe me with your kindness | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| Southside Johnny: | Now, I just want to say one more thing |
| I used to have a lot of girls (oh, yes, he did) | |
| Have them, big and small (uh, huh) | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Since I met this little baby of mine |
| I don't know no girls at all | |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Soothe me, baby, soothe me (Come on, now) |
| Soothe me with your kindness | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| Southside Johnny: | Oh, baby, baby |
| Southside Johnny: | Oh, yeah! |
| Bruce Springsteen: | It's too late, now! |
| Southside Johnny: | Go down to the bar for me, now |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Because I can! |
| Southside Johnny: | Yeah, that's right |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Oh, baby, baby, no they don't... They put me into a... little thing... And said... Baby, wake up! They said, hey, baby, wake up! Southside Johnny, why don't you used the thing and wake up? Come on, baby, got to wake up! |
| Now, come on, baby, wake up! | |
| Don't wait! | |
| Yeah, baby! | |
| Southside Johnny: | Come on, baby! |
| I don't want to wake up! | |
| I don't want to give it up! | |
| Oh, said I'm feeling all right now | |
| I still feel so good right now, baby | |
| I swear I am happy tonight, and I don't want to give it up! | |
| And I want it so bad! | |
| I want things to work out! | |
| I, don't want to work out | |
| I, oh... | |
| Southside Johnny: | How I used to ramble |
| Bruce Springsteen: | How I used to roam |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Since I met this baby of mine |
| All I do is stay at home | |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Soothe me, baby, soothe me |
| Soothe me with your kindness | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| Southside and Springsteen: | Soothe me, baby, soothe me (yeah, yeah) |
| Soothe me with your kindness | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| For, you know, your powerful loving is | |
| Soothing to me | |
| Southside Johnny (spoken outro): | Play that thing, baby! Yeah, oh, baby! |
SOOTHE ME is a 1961 song by Simms Twins. See the original Simms Twins version for more details. However, it is Sam & Dave's live 1967 recording of the song that Bruce Springsteen was likely familiar with. See the original Sam & Dave version for more details.
The above lyrics are for the live 13 Oct 1977 performance of SOOTHE ME at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, with Southside Johnny. Bruce Springsteen joined Southside Johnny at one of his gigs at the club for a five-song set, the third of which was SOOTHE ME.
SOOTHE ME was sound-checked prior to the 23 Feb 1975 show in Westbury, NY, (as far as it's known) but it was not performed on any of what is considered The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle Tour's regular shows.
SOOTHE ME was sound-checked prior to the 22 Jul 1975 show in Geneva, NY, (as far as it's known) but it was not performed in full on any of The Born To Tour's regular shows. However, a snippet of the song was played as part of A LOVE SO FINE during the 22 Jul 1975 show. See the live 22 Jul 1975 version of A LOVE SO FINE for more details.
SOOTHE ME was performed off-tour on 13 Oct 1977 at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, with Southside Johnny.
A snippet of SOOTHE ME was used at least once during The Reunion Tour, as part of TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT, during Springsteen's introduction of the band. See the live 29 May 1999 version of TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT.
A snippet of SOOTHE ME was used a few times during The Rising Tour, as part of MARY'S PLACE.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
The sound quality of the audio recording for this live 13 Oct 1977 performance of SOOTHE ME is very poor, so some of the above lyrics and attributions are guessed. If you have any corrections, please contact me via the below form or by email at . Thanks in advance.
List of available versions of SOOTHE ME on this website:
SOOTHE ME [Live 13 Oct 1977 version]