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A Short Cut To The Grave (Gin, Justice, Jail & Judgement 1924-1942)
Disc 1
01. Four-Eleven-Forty Four
02. Numbers on the Brain
03. Coon Can Blues
04. Skin Game Blues
05. Georgia Skin
06. Snitchin’ Gambler Blues
07. Policy Blues
08. Alley Crap Game
09. Gambler’s Blues
10. Poker Woman Blues
11. Bad Luck Dice
12. Hitting the Numbers
13. Dices Blues
14. Policy Blues
15. Policy Dream Blues (You Better Get on It)
16. Policy Blues
17. Policy Wheel Blues
18. I’m a Gamblin’ Woman
19. Coon Can Shorty
20. Gambling Man
21. Drunken Gambler
22. Policy Writer’s Blues
23. Number Runner’s Blues
24. Good Gamblin’
25. Roaming Gambler
Disc 2
01. Booze and Blues
02. Corn Liquor Blues
03. Dope Head Blues
04. Cocaine Blues
05. Dead Drunk Blues
06. Bootlegging Blues
07. Canned Heat Blues
08. Don’t Drink It in Here
09. Whiskey Moan Blues
10. Whiskey Drinkin’ Blues
11. Me and My Whiskey
12. Cocaine Habit Blues
13. Papa Wants to Knock a Jug
14. Corn Whiskey Blues
15. Barrel of Whiskey Blues
16. Devil’s Island Gin
17. Drinking Blues
18. Bad Liquor Blues
19. Drunken Woman Blues
20. Bootleggin’ Ain’t Good No More
21. Blackberry Wine
22. Haven’t Seen No Whiskey
23. Good Gin Blues
24. Beer Drinking Woman
25. Blues That Made Me Drunk
Disc 3
01. New Prison Blues
02. Ninety Nine Year Blues
03. The Jail House Blues
04. Jailhouse Fire Blues
05. The Escaped Convict
06. Penitentiary Bound Blues
07. Hangman’s Blues
08. Judge Harsh Blues
09. Penitentiary
10. Prison Bound Blues
11. My Crime Blues
12. Police Sergeant Blues
13. Whiskey Selling Woman
14. Robbin’ and Stealin’ Blues
15. He’s in the Jailhouse Now
16. Buggy Jail House Blues
17. Big House Blues
18. Joliet Bound
19. High Sheriff Blues
20. Chain Gang Blues
21. Jailhouse Blues
22. Parchman Farm Blues
23. Jailhouse Blues
24. Angola Blues
25. County Jail Blues
Disc 4
01. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
02. My Daddy’s Coffin Blues
03. Burying Ground Blues
04. Death Bell Blues
05. Down in the Cemetery
06. Dying Pickpocket Blues
07. Prayer of Death Part 2
08. Suicide Blues
09. Dying Mercy Blues
10. Laying in the Graveyard
11. Death Cell Blues
12. Dead and Gone Mother
13. Graveyard Blues (Dead and Gone Blues)
14. Death Letter Blues
15. Six Cold Feet in the Ground
16. Graveyard Blues
17. Crying Mother Blues
18. When the Breath Bids the Body Goodbye
19. Death of the Gambler
20. Gonna Kill My Baby
21. Bone Yard Blues
22. Strange Place Blues
23. Death of Walter Barnes
24. A Short Cut to the Grave
25. Death Valley Blues
Oh go on, gal, don't you take me for no fool
I'm not gonna quit you, pretty mama, while the weather's cool
Around your back door, oh honey, I'm gonna creep
As long as you make those two and a half a week

Now I got a girl, she works in the white folk's yard
She brings me meal, I can swear she brings me lard
She brings me meat, she brings me lard
She brings me everything, I swear, that she can steal

Now Barn and Beale's (?) circus came to town,
They had an elephant looking good and brown
They did not know it was against the law
For the monk(ey) to stop at a five drugstore
Just around the corner, just a minute too late,
Another one's standin' at the big back gate
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine

I called my Cora, hey hey
She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore,
The doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more
Sayin', run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine

Now the furniture man came to my house, it was last Sunday morn
He asked me was my wife at home and I told him she had long gone
He backed his wagon up to my door, took everything I had
He carried it back to the furniture store and I swear I did feel sad

What in the world has anyone got for dealing with the furniture man
If you got no dough, you stand no show, it's certain he'll back you back
He'll take everything from an earthly plant, from a skillet to a frying pan
If ever there was a devil born without any horns,
It must have been a furniture man

I called my Cora, hey hey
She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore,
Doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more
Sayin' coke's for horses, not women nor men
The doctor said it will kill you, but he didn't say when
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine

Now the baby's in the cradle in New Orleans, it kept a-whippin' till it got so
Mean
It kept a-whippin had to fix it so (indecipherable)
Saying, run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine

I called my Cora, hey hey
She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore,
The doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more
Sayin', run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine