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Jeff

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Thread #3669   Message #18864
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jan-98 - 03:32 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On a Monday
Subject: Lyr Add: ON A MONDAY (Lead Belly)

ON A MONDAY

On a Monday, Monday I was arrested,
On a Tuesday, locked up in jail.
On a Wednesday, my trial was attested,
On a Thursday, nobody wouldn't go my bail.

[chorus]
Well, it's all, almost done
Well, it's all, almost done
And I ain't gonna see them pretty girls no more.

On a Monday, me and my baby was a-walkin'
On a Tuesday, she locked me out of doors.
On a Wednesday, were settin' down a-talkin'
On a Thursday, she pawned all of my clothes.
[chorus]

Take these stripes, stripes from 'round my shoulder
Take these chains, chains from 'round my leg.
Lord these stripes, stripes sure don't worry me,
But these chains, chains gonna kill me dead.
[chorus]

-taken from the Jerry Silverman Folk Song Encyclopedia-
There's no songwriter name, so I suppose it's public domain.
Arlo Guthrie did a nice rendition of this song on a 1975 album he recorded with Pete Seeger, "Together in Concert." Certain topical songs on the album are no longer relevant, but it's still a wonderful album - but it's out of production, I believe.
-Joe Offer-