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Thread #165532   Message #3971705
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
16-Jan-19 - 07:02 AM
Thread Name: chorus line 'ah well'
Subject: RE: chorus line 'ah well'
LYRICS: O BERTA (Hollie (Bull) Dew & unidentified prisoners, Parchman Farm Prison, Mississippi, 1947)

Ain’t that Berta comin, down that road, well.
She walk like Berta but she want you so, well.
She want you so baby, she want you so, well.
She walk like Berta but she want you so, well.

O Bert-a Well,
Lord gal.
Lord, Bert-a Well
Lord gal, well.

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/o-berta-prison-work-song-with-lyrics.html