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Send Me To the 'lectric Chair (live)

from The Feverfew (live) by The Feverfew

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This song was originally recorded and made popular by Bessie Smith in 1927. This version was recorded live by The Feverfew on KPSU radio in Portland, OR in 2006.

lyrics

Judge your honor, hear my plea
Before you open up your court
But I don't want no sympathy
'Cause I done cut my good man's throat
I caught him whith a trifling Jane
I warned him 'bout before
I had my knife and went insane
And the rest you oughtta know

Judge, judge, please mister judge,
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
Help me go away from here
I wanna take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
I wanna reap just what I sow
So judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

Judge, judge, hear me judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
I loved him so dear
I cut him with my barlow
I kicked him in the side
I stood here laughing over him
While he wallowed 'round and died
Oh judge, judge, lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

Judge, judge, sweet mister judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge
Burn me 'cause I don't care
I don't want no bumbling man
To throw my bail
I don't want to spend no
Ninety years in jail
So judge, judge, good kind judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

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from The Feverfew (live), released December 31, 2008
Guitar and vocals by Bethany Spiers.

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The Feverfew Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Feverfew has a sound born in the South and dragged up through the East, landed somewhere between a Brooklyn rooftop and the sea. With unassuming posture, Andrew Bethany Spiers makes an impact. Spiers' lyrics are formidably poetic and steep him as a promising talent in a tradition of literary musicians that includes Patti Smith, David Berman, Thurston Moore and David Byrne, to name a few. ... more

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