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Thread #142503   Message #3286026
Posted By: GUEST,999
06-Jan-12 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Insurance Man Blues (Yank Rachell)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Insurance Man Blues (Yank Rachell)
Sure did help, Hokumsheik. I returned to the site and damn if p. 167 wasn't available. I wrote the lyrics real fast and they are the 4th and 5th stanzas added to the three you were able to get in your post. Many thanks.

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Insurance Man Blues
Bluebird B8796, Chicago, April 3, 1941

I just wanted to introduce you to the industrial insurance man.
I just wanted to introduce you to the industrial insurance man.
Well, you know they buried old Turkey Slim; he was electrocuted in the electric chair.

They paid his sister twenty-four hours after the poor boy was dead.
They paid his sister twenty-four hours after the poor boy was dead.
Said, he would pay for anything you die with; you may die in the electric chair.

You may have some kind of accident Dont be worried be how you die.
You may have some kind of accident. Don't be worried 'bout how you die.
Said, because if you be electrocuted they will pay you anyhow.

Turkey Slim's sister sat down and wrote a letter, back down to the industrial board
Turkey Slim's sister sat down and wrote a letter, back down to the industrial board
Say, you done paid me what you promised me, and I don't want you to pay no more

I'm a old member, and look like I'm going to live all the time
I'm a old member of that company, it look like I'm going to live all the time
(Spoken, Yank Rachall: I don't want to die.)
Said, but if I should happen to die, Lord, they will that money to my wife.