"Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it was a hit, spending six weeks in the Billboard R&B chart where it reached number seven. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists.
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Famous quotes containing the words forty, days and/or nights:
“People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“They dance between their arclamps and our skull,
Impose their shots, showing the nights away....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)