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Send Me To The 'lectric Chair

by Sarah Spencer

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Recorded remotely by all during the COVID -19 lockdowns by
Sarah Spencer's Global Ramblers - a truly international group of world-class musicians.

lyrics

Judge you wanna hear my plea
Before you open up your court
But I don't want no sympathy, cause
I done cut my good man's throat
I caught him with a trifling Jane
I warned him 'bout before
I had my knife and went insane
And the rest you ought to know

Judge, judge, please mister judge,
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good mister judge,
Let me go away from here
I want to take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
I want to reap just what I sow
Oh judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

Judge, judge hear me judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge send me there judge
I love him so dear
I cut him with my barlow
I kicked him in the side
I stood here laughing o'er him
While he wallowed around and died
Oh judge, judge lordy judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

Judge, judge, sweet mister judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Judge, judge, good kind judge
Burn me 'cause I don't care
I don't want no former mayor
To go my bail
I don't want to spend no
Ninety-ninety years in jail
So judge, judge good kind judge
Send me to the 'lectric chair

credits


Sarah Spencer - vocal
Clint Baker - trumpet
Mike Owen - trombone
Hugh Crozier - piano

Composed by George Brooks, 1927
Arranged by H. Crozier and S. Spencer, 2021

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George H. Buck, Jr.,: "Sarah plays tenor sax in the true New Orleans style of that instrument. It is nice to hear a lady who has assimilated so much of the New Orleans feeling and tradition and she is a fine blues singer in the classic tradition. New Orleans jazz fans have long considered her to be one of the finest saxophonists in the New Orleans tradition and now she added the Classic Blues" ... more

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