Luke Jordan

Luke Jordan - Church Bell Blues (Take 2) lyrics

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Church 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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