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[ti:Stone For Bessie Smith]
[ar:Dory Previn]
[al:In Search Of Mythical Kings (The UA Years)]
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[00:00.000]Stone For Bessie Smith - Dory Previn
[00:15.350]Isn't it amazing
[00:18.249]Shakes you to the bone
[00:21.559]She bought a stone
[00:22.968]For bessie smith
[00:24.698]She bought bessie smith a stone
[00:28.327]She got it for her grave-site
[00:31.637]On a temporary loan
[00:34.217]But she forgot
[00:35.627]She had not paid
[00:38.067]For her own
[00:40.996]She forgot she had not paid
[00:44.916]She forgot she had not paid
[00:48.596]After all the contracts
[00:50.894]And arrangements had been made
[00:55.244]She went to bessie's grave
[00:58.733]And marked it with a stone
[01:01.343]But she still
[01:03.143]Had to pay for her own
[01:11.512]She went home
[01:12.912]To her class reunion
[01:15.310]Where a class-mate he confessed
[01:19.089]She wouldn't want this getting out
[01:21.829]But she used to be the best
[01:25.088]In school she was a nice girl
[01:29.298]As descent as the rest
[01:31.838]Though she never was
[01:34.108]Conservatively dressed
[01:39.728]Isn't it amazing
[01:43.187]You think she could've known
[01:46.417]She bought a stone
[01:47.727]For bessie smith she bought
[01:49.787]Bessie smith a stone
[01:53.147]She got it for her grave-site
[01:56.707]On a temporary loan
[01:59.407]But she forgot
[02:01.017]She had not paid
[02:03.597]For her own
[02:06.006]She forgot she had not paid
[02:10.156]She forgot she had not paid
[02:13.546]No sooner had the letters
[02:16.356]On the deed begun to fade
[02:20.795]When her ashes had been scattered
[02:24.304]Been battered and been blown
[02:27.454]But she forgot she had not paid
[02:32.104]For her own