Lyr Req: You're Gonna Need King Jesus on Your Bond

Subject: You're Gonna Need King Jesus On Your Bon
From:
Date: 19 Sep 00 - 09:05 AM

I have an old recording of Big Joe Williams doing this song but I can't understand the lyrics. Can any one help me? Thanks, Tom

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Need King Jesus On Your
From: Noreen
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 08:12 AM

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Need King Jesus On Your
From: Quincy
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 06:37 AM

We're still looking!!!!!
Good luck! Yvonne

Subject: Lyr Add: ON YOUR BOND
From:
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:53 AM

This is not the Joe Williams version- in fact I can't at the moment remember whose version it is- but if you make the substitution for 'somebody' it might help. Believe it to be a version of the same song. There are also additional verses I can't remember.

Best, Greg

ON YOUR BOND

CH: You're gonna need somebody on your bond
You're gonna need somebody on your bond
Yes and 'way 'round midnight death come a creepin' in the room
And You're gonna need somebody on your bond

Well I heard the voice if Jesus say "Who's gonna go your bail?
Well you know the grave is your restin' place
Spend the rest of your life in hell"
Well, You're gonna need somebody on your bond

CH

Now angels can't you hear me?
Dip your fingers down in that pool
And let one drop of the cooling water
Fall on my burnin' soul
You're gonna need somebody on your bond.

CH.

Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY ON YOUR BOND
From:
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 08:28 AM

Another Possibility:

YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY ON YOUR BOND
(Blind Willie Johnson)

CH:You're gonna need somebody on your bond,
You're gonna need somebody on your bond
When it's a way past midnight
When death comes slippin' in the room
You're gonna need somebody on your bond

I heard the voice of Jesus say
Come unto Me and rest
I found a way for me to lie down
Said lain upon His breast

When I was a gambler
Nobody would go my bond
Fell on my knees and began to pray
'Cause Jesus could go my bond

I came to Jesus as I was weary, wounded, sad
Found in Him a resting place
How He made me glad
Well, I've got somebody on my bond Lord
I've got somebody on my bond.