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lyrics

Jesse worked in the fields by day/ plantin’ cotton with Annie Mae
under the hot Missouri sun

She fixed him meals sent him off to play/ washed his hair and kept the dirt away
said he was like her only son

She’s a proud woman and she’s mean and tall/ got a stone face and a mountain jaw
and she’s busy killin’ time

There’s a curtain blowing with the window breeze/ and a black dress flowin’ to her knees
hangin’ in the corner like a vine

*Be still be still Zerelda til that day will come
there’ll be flowers for the coffin/ you can put that black dress on
you can put that black dress on

Frank’s in the woods back behind the farm/ where Jesse ’bout blew off his arm
and the militia men come down

Water’s cold you can see your breath ain’t got a whole lotta runnin’ left in you
paddle that boat without a sound

The cavalry of the 25th go/ chasin' all the bushwhack secesh/
down every river and every road

There’s the mill and the Baptist church/ Old Man Boggs standin’ in the lurch
there’s the bridge and all he knowed

*Be still be still Zerelda til that day will come
there’ll be flowers for the coffin/ you can put that black dress on
you can put that black dress on

So go back go back to your tobacco/ with your gospel plow and your wooden hoe
she’s a-waitin’ for you there

You’re a gentleman all through and through/ you only do what you gotta do
but in this life there’s just one care

You could live all clean and good but you ain’t mean you’re misunderstood
it’s a fight worth many lives

Can’t stop now you always taste the thrill/ you kill to shoot and you shoot to kill
and nothing’s resting heavy on Jesse’s mind

*Be still be still Zerelda til that day will come
there’ll be flowers for the coffin/ you can put that black dress on
you can put that black dress on

credits

from Sky Blue DeVille, released April 16, 2013
Adam Klein- acoustic guitar; vocals
Steve Abercrombie-bass
Crash Cason- electric guitar
Bronson Tew- drums
Randall Bramblett- wurlitzer

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Adam Klein Athens, Georgia

Adam Klein is a singer/songwriter playing folk, folk rock, Americana, and West African Mande-inspired music out of Atlanta via Athens, GA. "Holidays in United States" out 4/7/23 on Cowboy Angel Music!

www.adam-klein.com

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