Preachin' The Blues Part 1 - Skip James

Oh, I’m gon' get me religion I’m gon' join the baptist church

Oh, I’m gon' get me religion I’m gon' join the baptist church

I’m gon' be a baptist preacher and I sure won’t have to work

Oh, I’m gonna preach these blues now, and I want everybody to shout

Mmm-mmm, I want everybody to shout

I’m gonna do like a prisoner, I’m gon' roll my time on out

Oh, in my room I bowed down to pray

Oh, up in my room I bowed down to pray

Then the blues come along and they blowed my spirit away

Oh, I’d’a had religion, Lord, this very day

Oh, I’d’a had religion, Lord, this very day

But the womens and whiskey, well, they would not let me pray

Oh, I wish I had me a heaven of my own,

(praise God almighty)

Yeah, heaven of my own,

Then I’d give all my women a long, long happy home

Yeah, I love my baby just like I love myself

Oh, just like I love myself

But if she don’t have me she won’t have nobody else.