Key: D major
Verse 1
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I live on a street named after a Saint
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Women in the churches
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wear powder and paint
Where the Jews and the Catholics
and the Muslims all pray
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I can tell they're Proddie from
a mile away
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Goodbye, Jimmy Reed,
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Jimmy Reed, indeed
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Give me that old time religion,
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it's just what I need
Verse 2
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For thine is kingdom,
the power and the glory
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Go tell it on the mountain,
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go tell the real story
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Tell it in that straightforward,
puritanical tone
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In the mystic hours,
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when a person's alone
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Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, godspeed
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Thump on the Bible, proclaim a creed
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Verse 3
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You won't amount to much,
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the people all said
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'Cause I didn't play guitar
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behind my head
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Never pandered, never acted proud
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Never took off my shoes,
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throw 'em in the crowd
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed,
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goodbye, goodnight
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Put a jewel in your crown and I put out the
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lights
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Verse 4
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They threw everything at me,
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everything in the book
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I had nothing to fight with but a
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butcher's hook
They had no pity,
they never lend a hand
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I can't sing a song that I
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don't understand
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Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, goodbye, good luck
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I can't play the record 'cause my
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needle got stuck
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Verse 5
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Transparent woman in a
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transparent dress
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Suits you well, I must confess
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I'll break open your grapes,
I'll suck out the juice
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I need you like my head needs a
noose
Goodbye, Jimmy Reed,
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goodbye and so long
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I thought I could resist her but
I was so wrong
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Verse 6
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God be with you, brother, dear
If you don't mind me asking,
what brings you here?
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Oh, nothing much,
I'm just looking for the man
Need to see where he's lying
in this lost land
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed,
and everything within ya
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Can't you hear me calling from
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down in Virginia?
Outro 1
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