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CROSSROADS Lyrics

Artist: Eric Clapton
Album: Blues

by Robert Johnson

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above for mercy, "Save me if you please."

I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
Nobody seemed to know me, everybody passed me by.

I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
You can still barrelhouse, baby, on the riverside.

You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down.

Comments/Interpretations

by anonymous on 6/25/2008 5:00pm
easily one of the greatest guitar songs of all time

by Clayton Hill on 8/17/2008 6:32am
what a great song shame Bob Dylan singing out of time felt the need to fuck it up at eric clapton and friends but it is still an absolutely brilliant song piece out bros and sis's and rock on

by Gocky on 11/17/2008 8:40am
Originally it's from Robert Johnson....so it has to be a great song.

by Alan Manley. on 1/22/2009 8:44pm
You don't credit any lyrics to, or make any mention here of the great Robert Johnson and he wrote it!

by JD on 2/2/2009 4:20am
Probably one of the defining blues songs ever, Thanks RJ!

by ella on 4/2/2009 12:50pm
why doset this have song's on this

by Willie "the blind dog fulton" Brown on 4/21/2009 5:17am
thanks for the great song RJ

by lllol on 5/22/2009 2:54pm
clapton pwns

by jake2 on 1/11/2010 10:30am
Booring. Clapton sings like shit

by Mark on 3/17/2010 11:53pm
what is barrelhouse

by Rbachman on 5/4/2010 7:30pm
Ok... Maybe by American idol standturds Clapton is a shitty singer... Unfortunately for you he is not subject to those standards as he is a blues singer. In which case he frickin rocks

by afafds on 10/2/2010 2:00pm
this song is horrible. clapton is as much a god as like justin bieber is a man

by fuckyouall on 10/6/2010 1:37pm
look, robert jonson is awesome. there woundn't be good electric blues if it wasnt for him. And Eric Clapton is awesome. some of you talk shit about a man that has been playing and singing for longer than you have been alive, and you havent even bilt up enough talent to please your own mother. stop talking shit.

by dammit on 10/6/2010 1:41pm
fuck you

by Robert Johnson on 11/13/2010 12:08am
Quit frontin' with me!

by Tom Thimgan on 12/11/2010 8:01pm
If you don't like Clapton playing "Crossroads", Cream or later slow versions, you just don't like electric blues...or you just don't know what it is! Absolutely NOBODY can bend a note on guitar as perfectly as E.C.

by j on 12/16/2010 12:32am
afafds a a fucking fag who doesn't know shit

by Fuck on 1/9/2011 6:08pm
We get it. People hate Clapton's voice. Like Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, he was embarrassed of his voice. All three of them had something to make up for it. For Dylan, it was lyrics. For Hendrix and Clapton, it was fucking awesome guitar skills. I love Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton. Fun fact: Robert Johnson inspired Clapton more than anyone.

by Rockero on 2/4/2011 10:00am
No, Clapton is no Susan Boyle... but I do believe the tessiture and tone of Clapton's voice give "Crossroads" the punch of british blues that characterized Cream in their heydays, even though Bruce's voice wasn't opera quality, and don't even talk about Baker's murmurs on the background, but what a trio! The best example of musical sinergy I've ever seen.

by who'd be a drummer on 2/14/2011 3:20am
rider i gather means girlfriend, woman etc

by unit30 on 2/27/2011 6:44pm
I'm 62 yrs.old and have been listening to Clapton for the better part of my life. It don't get much better.

by Connor on 3/4/2011 4:10pm
All blues players translate.....fact of life. For me, Clapton does as well as anybody else I've heard in over 60 years of listening.

by B on 10/4/2011 7:07am
Dont forget tha shear raw trio jammage

by Steven on 12/4/2011 10:44pm
A barrelhouse was a "juke joint" where Blacks in the rural south met to drink and dance....in the lyrics "barrelhouse" is used as in "to barrelhouse" that is, to drink and to dance..

by G on 12/7/2011 11:38pm
Clapton is a machine. plays with precision and soul. Maybe some play faster. But In blues sometimes it's more important what you don't play than what you do. As far as voice; question is, do you believe he's been there. I do. But you're right, he probably wouldn't make a Boy-Band member

by Mr W. on 12/30/2011 8:49pm
It's sad to see so many people who are never gonna be talented resorting to slagging on a great talent, as if your opinion is ever gonna matter anyway, E.C collects about 24 million just in royalties anually,compare that to your lifestyle, dreaming, doin' nothing but putting more crap on the web. Your obviously nobody's! Keep on masturbating.. wankers.

by rjb on 2/3/2012 4:04pm
Just for accuracy's sake, I guess I ought to mention that the recording most of us think of was by Cream, not Eric Clapton solo. The bass and drums were pretty awesome too, although Clapton's part was beyond incredible.

by 12am on 2/16/2012 8:38pm
sometimes the blues picks you!

by Big Jon on 5/25/2012 8:46pm
I hate to use this language but this is "the best live guitar solo ever".

by Dr.NuckinFutz on 6/4/2012 5:53pm
Ok. Give Mr. Clapton a break and check out, on you tube, the dude playing Dobro Blues version of Crossroads. Not the greatest but not shabby. Tappin out.

by Strat Always on 7/3/2012 7:56am
No one has right to critisize Clapton. He is sipmly the best guitar player ever!

by CS on 8/3/2012 12:43pm
Just a minor historical point: Cream's lyrics differed from Johnson's original 'Crossroads Blues'.

by Keith on 8/29/2012 1:01am
I also like the version on Lynyrd Skynyrd "One More From The Road" live album from 1976! Ronnie van Zant was a big fan!

by littlewing on 10/10/2012 2:36am
Eric Clapton is a guitarist guitarist and guitarist!!!!!!!!! ... never mind how he sings

by Lee Cook on 10/24/2012 9:09pm
Long live Robert Johnson!...Kudos to Clapton for reviving it....Kudos to Ronnie Van Zant and Skynyrd who used to regularly do it and occationally close with it before they settled on the "Free Bird" arrangement

by chefdan on 12/13/2012 2:43am
Clapton is a guitar god no more no less to you douchebags you think he sucks who the hell you listen to man made computer fake music get a clue jackasses

by bigbadbri on 1/11/2013 5:56am
Skynyrd version live awesome as well

by pie man!! on 4/7/2013 2:08am
Unmanned Lighthouse from the Scilly Isles did a fantastic version of this in 94/5 ish, a massive surprise this was, and an awesome gig!!

by Dangard on 4/13/2013 7:25pm
This song sounds better by the hand of Jeff Berlin and Paul Gilbert, search for it in youtube....

by Danny Chetty/South Africa on 8/9/2013 5:42am
it still remains a powerful music food for the soul. every musician can adapt it for his own style like it is just written. like Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton, john Mayer so many more. so Robert lives on guys lets appreciate and honor what racism, slavery and class wanted us not to do. its an anti establishment blues so let it just get to your soul like Eric, Jeff and so so many more.

by SANDRA JEAN CALHOUN on 10/23/2024 7:23pm
Credit to Robert Johnson on the lyrics waaaay back..in which every rock musician knows where his roots came from. Straight outa Mississippi