Bessie Smith Tag

Devil´s GONNA Git YOU by Porter Grainger/ Bessie Smith It’s a long, long lane that has no turningAnd it’s a fire that always keeps on burningMister devil down belowPitchfork in his hand And that’s where you are going to goDo you understand? Devil’s gonna git youDevil’s gonna git youOh, the devil’s gonna git youMan, just as sure as you’s born Devil’s gonna git youDevil’s gonna git youOh, the devil’s gonna git you The way you’re carryin‘ on You go away, stay for weeksOn your doggone spreeCome back home, get inRead More
Send me to the ’lectric chair by Bessie Smith Judge you wanna hear my plea Before you open up your court But I don’t want no sympathy ’Cause I done cut my good man’s throat I caught him whith a trifling Jane I warned him ’bout before I had my knife and went insane And the rest you ought to know Judge, judge, please mister judge, Send me to the ’lectric chair Judge, judge, good mister judge, Let me go away from here I wanna take a journey To theRead More