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Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
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Subject: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,Marymac90--what--have I no cookie?!!! Date: 02 Jun 02 - 03:47 PM Hi, Ya'll! Long time no visit-I've missed youse guys! I hope everyone has been well. Does anyone have the lyrics to this song, often thought of as one that David Bromberg does, but it was done much earlier, I think by Bessie Smith. I did check digitrad, but it doesn't seem to be there. I'll try checking back in a little while, and see if any of the "speed demons" are around, just waiting for a question they can answer so fast it makes your head spin! Thanks in advance, ya'll! Love, Marymac herself, in the |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Sorcha Date: 02 Jun 02 - 03:51 PM You're there! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,Marymac90 Date: 02 Jun 02 - 04:40 PM Thanks, Sorch! I knew I could count on this crew! Love ya'll, Marymac |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Dani Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:22 PM Anyone know more? Other recordings besides Bromberg? When I hear him sing it, I almost want to laugh. I'm sure I wouldn't if Bessie Smith was singing it.... Dani |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:47 PM It's on "The Essential Bessie Smith," Columbia 64922, 1997 re-issue; a 2-cd set, about $23. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR From: masato sakurai Date: 02 Jun 02 - 10:43 PM Here's Bessie Smith's version:
SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR
1 Judge judge please Mr judge : send me to the electric chair
("???": undeciphable passage ["barlow" in the lyrics Sorcha linked to])
SOURCE: Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology (Garland, 1983, pp. 236-237) ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Jun 02 - 11:01 PM Barlow was a sturdy jackknife. The Barlow family were cutlers. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Jun 02 - 04:09 PM Hey MM....If you're going to the chair, wear clean underwear!! Spaw (Old Mudcat Radio joke) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Jun 02 - 04:29 PM LOL! Hi MaryMac! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: SharonA Date: 03 Jun 02 - 04:48 PM Catspaw is an old Mudcat Radio joke? (Just kidding; I know the underwear joke, but I couldn't resist!) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Jun 02 - 05:00 PM Yeah Sharon, but I think you're right............... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,scottaleh Date: 03 Jun 02 - 05:08 PM Being a lawyer when I'm not singing, I add this verse when I play Lectric Chair: Pull up you robe, Judgie. Pull down your shorts. I'm going to show you what it means to be a Friend of the Courts! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,Frogmore Date: 03 Jun 02 - 06:02 PM Hoyt Axton did a fine version of this. It was on an LP that pictured him jumping off a freight train I think. Should this song be the Texas National Anthem? (Just a joke....I apologize to Texan Mudcatters. Many of my favorite friends and musicians are Texans. By the way, why are there so damn many great songwriters from that state?) Anyhow, I always dug Hoyt. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,Larkin Date: 03 Jun 02 - 07:02 PM I've always sung ' I stabbed her with my Bowie and kicked her in the side then I stood there laughin at her till she wriggled around and died . And the last verse begins 'I don't want no moneyman to go and stand my bail ,I don't want to spend no 99 years in no jail. And I usually end with the ' Good Evening friends' tag but sing 'I wanna fry' Martin |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 04 Jun 02 - 10:01 AM Another pleasant Mudcat coincidence. I've been listening to Tracy Nelson (the little lady with the big voice) do this song and thought it would be a nice addition to my own repertoire. In the 60's or 70's there was an English rocker who played organ. His name escapes me now, but he did a rollicking version of this song. Any songwriting credits here? Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Matt Woodbury/Mimosa Date: 04 Jun 02 - 12:24 PM Somewhere I have a tape of Dinah Washington doing this - I think on "The Bessie Smith Songbook" Mimosa |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Frug Date: 04 Jun 02 - 06:53 PM I remember the tune to this vaguely from an old 78 years back. Anyone got the chords ???? Frank |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Jun 02 - 09:22 AM Art Thieme also posted the lyrics back in the thread called Songs about capital punishment. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,Bearhunter Date: 06 Jun 03 - 09:24 PM G - E - A - D - G G - E7 - A7 - D G - G7 - C7 - A7 G - E7 - A7 - D - G from off a David Bromberg record many years ago so may not be totally right |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 10 Jun 03 - 03:57 PM I learned it from George Melly doing his Bessie Smith impersonation. Thanks to Mudcat I now sing "Barlow" not "Bowie". RtS |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: GUEST,sussmaniac Date: 25 Dec 03 - 07:58 PM Mike Cooper did a great version (with Derek Hall on guitar) on his 1969 album Oh Really!? on Janus records in USA and Pye in UK |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Nov 21 - 06:22 PM Joe - update crosslinks |
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