Here's the version we like (from Elizabeth LaPrelle's new CD): http://www.old97wrecords.com/elizabeth-laprelle/songs/blind-bartimus.htm

Contrary to those lyrics, the account isn't found in the book of James, but rather in Mark 10:46-52 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20mark%2010:46-52;&version=31;

Kent

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Recording by Elizabeth LaPrelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjME7n--e1g