Lyr Add: Jimmy Bell

08 Dec 01 - 11:23 PM (#606567)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jimmy Bell
From: Rolfyboy6

The obscure blues singer of Natchez, Cat Iron, was recorded by Fredric Ramsey Jr. in 1958( Cat Iron - Sings Blues and Hymns (1958)Smithsonian Folkways F-2389 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) ). "Jimmy Bell" is his masterpiece. Also recorded in the 60s by Dave Ray. One of the best of the anti-clerical blues (see Son House's "Preachin' Blues #2).

Jimmy Bell

Jimmy Bell's in town
Walking all around
He got greenbacks enough, sweet babe,
Buy a man a suit

ref: Buy a man a suit
Buy a man a suit
He got greenbacks enough sweet babe
buy a man a suit

Jimmy Bell in the pulpit
Bible in his hand
All the sisters back in the corner crying
Jimmy Bell my man

ref: Jimmy Bell my man
Jimmy Bell my man,
All the sisters back in the corner crying
Jimmy Bell my man

Jimmy Bell called the sexton
Go and toll the bell
Cause some of these old members here
Sure is going to hell

ref: Sure is going to hell
Sure is going to hell
Cause some of these old members here
Sure is going to hell

Jimmy Bell called the children
Bring your sins to me
Five dollars save your soul
Just bring on to me

ref: Bring it on to me
Bring it on to me
Five dollars to save your soul
Bring it on to me

Jimmy Bell told his wife
told his wife that night
Times don't get no better here
Down the road I'm going

ref: Down the road I'm going
Down the road I'm going
Times don't get no better here
Down the road I'm going

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