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Thread #171405   Message #4145351
Posted By: Joe Offer
24-Jun-22 - 08:41 PM
Thread Name: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof?
Subject: ADD: Judge's Chair (Peggy Seeger)
This would be a good place to post lyrics.

THE JUDGE'S CHAIR
(Peggy Seeger)

I don't want the boy with the long brown hair
I don't want the one with the curls
I want Jimmy and the devil-may-care,
Jimmy's good with the girls

He took the girl with the long brown hair
I don't want the one with the curls
He took me, and the devil may care,
And Jimmy's good with the girls

Come and walk in the Autumn woods
Come and walk in the town
She walked with him to the end of the earth
And together they lay down

Annie, the light that's in your eyes
Tells your lover's name
Annie, the hope that's in your heart
Will turn to grief and shame

Sunday, Monday passing by
Thursday, Friday too
Annie walks in the winter sun
A week past she was due

Two weeks, three weeks passing by
Three and four and five
Annie walked in the winter rain
And wished that she could die

December past, the New Year gone
Judgement Day has come
The doctor sat in the judge's chair
And the judges turned her down

Jimmy won't walk, Jimmy won't talk
Jimmy won't come around
Annie's gone to a backstreet woman
To bring the baby down

Pain floods into that place
Where love has come and gone
Close the door, and close the door
And Annie's walkin' home

Slowly, slowly up the stair
Into her childhood room
Her bed filled up with red, red blood
Annie died alone

She won't have the boy with the long brown hair
She won't have the one with the curls
She got Jimmy and the devil-may-care
And Jimmy's good with the girls

Men sit in the judges chair—
We are up on trial
Woman, if you conceive
You must bear your child

https://peggyseeger.bandcamp.com/track/the-judges-chair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhfdQMJX4Pc