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  • Ballad of spider john
  • By: willis a. ramsey
  • 1974
  • Spider john is my name friend
  • Im in between freights and I sure would be obliged
  • If youd share your company
  • I know this may sound strange to you
  • But if you wait till the song is sung and the story is told
  • You might come to understand
  • Oh, Im old and bent and devil sent, runnin out of time
  • When I long ago held a royal flush in my hand
  • Chorus:
  • Oh, I was a supermarket fool
  • I was a motor bank stool-pidgeon, robbin my hometown
  • I thought I lost my blues, yes I thought I paid my dues
  • I thought Id found a life to suit my style
  • But here I sit old spider john the robber-man
  • Long, tall, and handsome
  • Yes, old spider john with a loaded hand, takin ransom
  • Then one day I met diamond lill
  • She was the sweetest thing, I declare
  • That the summer breeze had ever blown my way
  • But lilly she had no idea, of my illustrious occupation
  • She thought I was a saint, not a sinner, gone astray
  • But you see that the word got around and lilly left town
  • Never saw her again
  • Tossin and turnin, causin my heart to grieve
  • Chorus:
  • Oh, I was a supermarket fool
  • I was a motor bank stool-pidgeon, robbin my hometown
  • I thought I lost my blues, yes I thought I paid my dues
  • I thought Id found a life to suit my style
  • But here I sit old spider john the robber-man
  • Long, tall, and handsome
  • Yes, old spider john with a loaded hand, takin ransom
  • That is all my story
  • Its been these thirty years since I took to the road
  • To find my precious jewel one
  • And if you see my lilly, wont you give her my regards
  • Tell her ole spider got tangled in the black web that he spun
  • You can tell her ole spider got tangled the black web that he spun

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