Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues (Take 2) lyrics
rate meChurch Bell Blues (Take 2) 3:11 Trk 19
Luke Jordan
Luke Jordan - vocal & guitar
Recorded: Charlotte, N.C., August 16, 1927
Victor (39819-2) Victor 21076
Album: 'Don't Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice'
Document Records 5678
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
A church bell's ringin'
The second tenor's singin'
The preacher's preachin'
Can't you hear the sister's shoutin'
Children in the pulpit
Mama, tryin'-a learn her psalm
Now, that lowdown dirty deacon
Just stole my gal and gone
Says, ooh brother had 'em
My sister had 'em
My auntie had 'em
My mother died with 'em
Woke up this mornin'
The family had the worry blues
Poked my head ov'r in the corner
Poor, old grand mammy had 'em, too
I did more for you woman
Way last winter, late in the fall
You remember the scuffle through the summer
I did more for you woman
Than the Good Lord had ever done
Head downtown bought you good hair
The Lord hadn't give you none
Hand me back that hat I brought ya
That curl and wave
Bed shawl on a frosty morn'
Better bring shoes along
If you don't like yo' daddy
You gone away to get a new start
Hand me back that wig I bought ya
Mama, let yo' doggone head go bald
And I can't be no*Bang Boy
No superintender
Can collecting it'll come in spring
When winter comes your tippin
And I promised the good Lord
Partner not to dig your coal
I'm going hang around the country
And try to sell some jellyroll
Say, my mama's got a hatchet
My papa got an ax
My sister got a shiever
My brother got so handsome
Some men crave the yellow womens
Some men their teasin' browns
I'm a stranger in town mama
Figure I'm goin-a whole way around
She wouldn't cook me no breakfast
She wouldn't give me no dinner
She squable about my supper
She kicked my out do's
She had a nerve to ask me
Would a match-box hold my clothes?
Had a nerve to ask me, would
A match-box hold my clothes?
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*That was the beginning of the Bristol Recording Sessions — known as
"The Big Bang of Country Music"— by RCA led by Ralph Peer, who
recorded the first six cuts of the Carter Family (www.virginia.org/site).<br />
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