Send Me To The 'lectric Chair Lyrics - Bessie Smith - Bessie Smith

Judge you want to 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 

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 one good mayor 

To go my bail 

I don't want to spend no 

Ninety-nine years in jail 

So judge, judge, good kind judge 

Send me to the 'lectric chair