Dupree Blues

Dupree Blues Lyrics

Song Dupree Blues
Artist Willie Walker
Album People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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[00:28.36] Betty told Dupree
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[00:30.61] I wants me a diamond ring oh baby
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[00:37.14] Betty told Dupree
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[00:39.88] I wants me a diamond ring oh sugar
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[00:45.87] Now listen mama
[00:47.99] Your daddy bring you most anything
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[00:54.01] He had to kill a policeman
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[00:57.03] And he wound a detective too oh sugar
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[01:03.62] Killed a detective
[01:05.73] Wounded a policeman too oh babe
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[01:11.49] See here mama what you caused me to do
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[01:20.17] Hired him a taxi
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[01:22.20] Said can't you drive me back
[01:23.87] To main say taxi
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[01:28.29] Then he hired him a taxi
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[01:30.84] Said carry me back to main oh baby
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[01:36.34] I've done a hanging crime yet
[01:38.98] I don't never feel ashamed
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[01:44.86] Standing there wondering
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[01:47.04] Will a matchbox hold my clothes oh baby
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[01:53.14] Standing there wondering
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[01:55.19] Matchbox hold my clothes
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[02:00.91] Said a trunk was too big
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[02:03.31] To be bothered on the road
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[02:09.73] Rested poor Dupree
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[02:12.11] Placed him in the jail oh Lord
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[02:17.61] Rested poor Dupree
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[02:20.05] Placed him in the jail oh babe
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[02:25.22] He had the mean old judge went
[02:27.99] And refuse to sign him any bail
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[02:33.53] Wrote a letter to Betty
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[02:35.94] And this is the way the letter read oh baby
[02:40.84] He wrote a letter to Betty
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[02:43.73] And this is the way the letter read oh Lord
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[02:48.80] Come home to your daddy I'm almost dead
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[02:57.01] Betty went to the Jailer crying
[02:59.81] Mister Jailer please oh baby
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[03:04.73] Betty went to the Jailer crying
[03:07.52] Jailer please oh Lord
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[03:12.31] Please Mister Jailer
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[03:14.28] Let me see my used-to-be
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