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Send Me To The Electric Chair

from Bootleg Sessions V by Bootleg Slim

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Original lyrics [alterations made are in square brackets].

Judge you want to hear my plea
Before you open up your court
But I don't need no sympathy
'Cause I cut my good man's throat

I caught him with 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 want to take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
I want to reap just what I sow
Oh judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

Judge, judge, hear me judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
I love him so dear
I cut him with [my razor]
I kicked him in the side
I stood [around laughin']
While he wallowed around and died
Oh judge,…

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from Bootleg Sessions V, released September 27, 2016
Written by George Brooks and Fletcher Henderson
Recorded by Bessie Smith (1927)

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