Home demo version 2
You take the chances that you've got to take
You drive hard and you stay awake
Keep what you get... you take what you can get and keep what you hold
Get used to being bought and... pound for pound, you're bought and sold
You sit crying, dirty on stage
You learn to cool your temper and collect your rage
To use it well down in Jackson Cage
Men down in Jackson Cage
Down in Jackson Cage
The above lyrics are for a short solo acoustic guitar demo of JACKSON CAGE recorded at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ, sometime between September and December 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 JACKSON CAGE can be found on The Lost Masters Vol. 7 (Labour Of Love) [track 20] and The Definitive River Outtakes Collection Volume 2 (E. St. Records) [disc 1, track 03] bootlegs. On the latter, home demo version 1 and home demo version 2 are indexed on the same track.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of JACKSON CAGE on this website:
JACKSON CAGE [Album version]
