High Sheriff Blues-Charley Patton

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[00:00.00]High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
[00:01.83]Get in trouble at Belzoni
[00:05.39]There ain't no use a-screamin'
[00:08.70]And cryin'
[00:13.64]Get in trouble in Belzoni
[00:17.46]There ain't no use a-screamin'
[00:19.58]And cryin'
[00:25.40]Mr Will will take you
[00:28.21]Back to Belzoni jailhouse flyin'
[00:36.02]Le' me tell you folksies how he treated me
[00:47.48]Le' me tell you folksies how he treated me
[00:58.24]An' he put me in a cellar
[01:01.37]Just as dark as it could be
[01:08.99]There I laid one evenin'
[01:11.68]Mr Purvis was standin' 'round
[01:19.62]There I laid one evenin'
[01:22.12]Mr Purvis was standin' 'round
[01:30.24]Mr Purvis told Mr Will to let poor Charley down
[01:40.81]It takes booze and blues Lord to carry me through
[01:50.81]Takes booze and blues Lord to carry me through
[02:01.12]But it did seem like years
[02:04.00]In a jailhouse where there is
[02:05.75]No boo'
[02:12.00]I got up one mornin' feelin' awe hmm
[02:21.06]I got up one mornin' feelin' mighty bad hmm
[02:31.48]An' it might not a-been them Belzoni jail I had
[02:38.78]Blues I had boys
[02:40.78]While I was in trouble
[02:43.47]Ain't no use a-screamin'
[02:46.03]When I was in prison
[02:50.97]It ain't no use a-screamin and
[02:56.03]Cryin'
[03:00.59]Mr Purvis the onliest man could
[03:02.84]Ease that pain of mine