Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)

(Son House lyrics variation 1)

Words & Music by:

Robert Johnson

Arr:  Eddie James "Son" House

 

Oh, I'm gonna get me a religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist Church.

Oh, I'm gonna get me a religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist Church.

I'm gonna be a Baptist preacher, and I sure won't have to work.

 

Oh, I'm a-preach these blues and I, I want everybody to shout.

I want everybody to shout.

I'm gonna do like a prisoner, I'm gonna roll my time on out.

 

Oh, I went in my room, I bowed down to pray.

Oh, I went in my room, I bowed down to pray.

'Til the blues come along, and they blowed my spirit away.

 

Oh, I'd-a had religion, Lord, this very day.

Oh, I'd-a had religion, Lord, this very day.

But the womens and the whiskey, they would not set me free.

 

Oh, I wish I had me a heaven of my own.

[spoken:  Great God Almighty!]

Hey!  A heaven of my own.

'Til I'd give all my women a long, long happy home.

 

Hey, I love my baby, just like I love myself.

Oh, just like I love myself.

Well, if she don't have me, she won't have nobody else.

 




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