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Your Good Fortune

by Mavis Staples

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1.
Why did you spend your good fortune on me Why did you spend your good fortune on me Did you lead me to suffer Just to shuffle and breath Did you pick through the litters And just settled on me Am I just a play thing Or the wind like a leaf Or did you lead me exactly where I need to be Tell me why did you spend your good fortune on me Why did you spend your good fortune on me I can tell you of sorrows, of losing of pain I can cry through….(1:53)… It will wash you away I can give you one reason, two reasons, or three I can tell you about heartache, loneliness and grief So why did you spend your good fortune on me ooo why did you spend your good fortune on me I can tell you a story Tell it simple and plain Tell you life is a candle It flickers in arm of flame So if I give you one reason For me to say what I’m sayin’ I say that you are the answer To my question everyday Saying why did you spend your good fortune on me Tell me why did you spend your great fortune on me Why did you spend your glorious fortune on me Why did you spend your glorious fortune on me On me x4
2.
Fight 03:00
Out on the streets of Mary Sally old road (?) Can’t get me out unless you use a shoe horn Even destruction but you still talking free trade You give me lemons and I make lemonade So I pray, though I’m tired, but this can’t wait, so we fight They say you earn a penny, each one you save Easy to save it when you don’t need a dang thing Talking ‘bout Jesus but you treat people dead and wrong Looking for answers but you singing the same song Your economics well they sure need a change You know damn well them CEO’s need no raise Freedom and justice well they don’t play a thing Prop up your puppets and you kill the real king So I pray, though I’m tired, but this can’t wait, so we fight (Fight) x4 I hear my momma callin’ all the way home I’m in no hurry go on push it right on Yea I’m a soldier but I don’t use a gun Out on the road there’s no ma, daddy kept one They say you earn a penny, each one you save Won’t mean nothing when you’re down in the grave You know there is no really, just a fine means Prop up your puppets and it follows So I pray, though I’m tired, this can’t wait, so we fight So I pray, though I’m tired, this can’t wait, so we fight
3.
Going away don’t you wanna go Going away don’t you wanna go Going away don’t you wanna go Going to my home on the other shore There is just one kind favor I ask of you There is one kind favor I ask of you one kind favor I ask of you See that my grave is kept clean Dig my grave with a silver spade Won’t you dig my grave with a silver spade Dig my grave with a silver spade Ease me down with a rope and chain Did you ever hear a church bell tone Did you ever hear those church bells tone Have you ever heard church bells tone Then you know I’m dead and gone They say those streets are paved with gold Well they say those streets are paved with gold But they say the streets they’re paved with gold Lord have mercy on my soul Oh lord have mercy on my soul Lord have mercy on my soul Oh lord have mercy on my soul
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Come and follow me You know the master said don’t wait till tomorrow or you may be dead I was young and I wanted to play Said I’d wait just one more day Don’t you know I wish Wish I had answered Said I wish Wish I had answered Oh I wish I had answered when he called Early one morning I felt the pain Felt like death then signed my name Started to tremble deep down inside yeah And I felt the fear of the swelling tide Don’t you know wish I had answered Said I wish I had answered Ooo I wish I had answered when he called So many doctors stood around my bed One walked away oh he shook his head Said “you’re fever, 102” said, “I don’t believe I can pull you through” Don’t you know I wish I had answered Said I wished I had answered Oh I wish I had answered when he called Then the fever rose to 103 The doctor walked around and took a look at me Oh it rose to 104 He said oh death is knocking at your door Oh it rose to 105, said ‘I don’t believe you will survive” Mmm lord I wish I had answered Oh lord I wish I had answered Oh lord I wish I had answered when he called Don’t you know I wish Wish I had answered Oh lord I wish Wish I had answered Yea lord I wish I had answered when he called

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released April 21, 2015

Produced by Son Little
Except Your Good Fortune and Wish I Had Answered produced by Son Little and Count

Recorded at the Blue Room in Princeton, NJ and Chicago Recording Company in Chicago, IL.

Engineer (at CRC): Steve Weeder; Assistant Engineer: Jonathan Lackey

Mixed & mastered by Count

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