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To: tflabo
David Bromberg song

That's much older than Dave Bromberg. Bessie Smith sang it in the 1920s, and I don't think she was the first.

My favorite verse:

I ain't got no bondsman to go my bail
I don't wanna spend no 99 years in jail
So judge, o judge,
Good kind judge
Won't you send me to the 'lectric chair!

13 posted on 03/09/2010 3:07:21 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Yeppers-— Bessie Smith and also Blind Lemon Jefferson too.
I first heard the song from David Bromberg so it stuck in my head all these years but he didn’t write it! Thanks...


14 posted on 03/09/2010 3:10:57 PM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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