Lyr. Add: Stone Cold Dead in the Market
Macbeth the Great 1946 (Calypso at Midnight Concert)

1
Ah, he's stone cold in the market,
He's stone cold dead in the market,
Well, if he's stone cold dead in the market,
I ain't kill nobody but me husband.

(First verse with slight variation used as chorus)

2
Well look, I lash him with the pot and the frying pan,
I lick him with the pot and the frying pan,
Well if I lick him with the pot and the frying pan,
And if I kill him, he had it coming.

Chorus

3
Last night I went out drinking,
When I came home he gave me a beating,
Believe me, friends, I doesn't care,
If they set me down on the electric chair.

Chorus

4
Oh look, the family, they're swearing to kill me,
The family, they're swearing to kill me,
Well look, the family is swearing to kill me,
And if I kill him, he had it coming.

Chorus

5
Oh, Payne dead, Payne dead, he's stone dead,
And if Payne dead, Payne dead, he's stone dead,
And if I kill him, he is me husband.

Chorus

There is one thing that I am sure,
The vagabond, he cannot beat me no more,
So I catch up the rolling pin,
And I work on his head 'til I bash it in.

Chorus

Macbeth the Great is Patrick McDonald.
Lyrics from booklet inserted in album.

Wilmouth Houdini = Frederick Hendricks = Wilmouth Sinclair = St. Clair. The calypso copyright by him. Macbeth sang it the same year that Houdini took out the copyright.

Macbeth the Great sang this at the famous Calypso at Midnight Concert, Dec. 21, 1946, at Town Hall, New York. The Concert was fully recorded, organized by Alan Lomax. All songs available on cd, "Calypso at Midnight."