Send Me to the Electric Chair - Bessie Smith

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[00:00.00]Send Me to the Electric Chair - Bessie Smith
[00:11.80]Judge you wanna hear my plea
[00:16.86]Before you open up your court
[00:20.99]But I don't want no sympathy
[00:27.49]'Cause I done cut my good man's throat
[00:33.05]I caught him whith a trifling Jane
[00:38.68]I warned him 'bout before
[00:43.17]I had my knife and went insane
[00:48.93]And the rest you ought to know
[00:55.11]Judge judge please mister judge
[01:00.30]Send me to the 'lectric chair
[01:04.55]Judge judge good mister judge
[01:11.24]Let me go away from here
[01:16.74]I wanna take a journey
[01:19.12]To the devil down below
[01:22.11]I done killed my man
[01:24.18]I wanna reap just what I sow
[01:27.36]Oh judge judge lordy lordy judge
[01:33.55]Send me to the 'lectric chair
[01:38.86]Judge judge hear me judge
[01:44.36]Send me to the 'lectric chair
[01:47.51]
[01:52.57]I love him so dear
[02:01.16]I cut him with my barlow ()
[02:04.10]I kicked him in the side
[02:06.54]I stood here laughing o'r him
[02:09.10]While he wallowed around and died
[02:11.73]Oh judge judge lordy judge
[02:18.22]Send me to the 'lectric chair
[02:23.79]Judge judge sweet mister judge
[02:29.54]Send me to the 'lectric chair
[02:35.04]Judge judge good kind judge
[02:40.85]Burn me 'cause I don't care
[02:45.85]I don't want no one good mayor
[02:48.73]To go my bail
[02:51.16]I don't want to spend no
[02:53.16]Ninety-nine years in jail
[02:56.85]So judge judge good kind judge
[03:02.79]Send me to the 'lectric chair