Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living 2:28 Trk 17 D-2
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, Chu Berry - tenor sax
L'il Armstrong - piano, unk str bass. (93846A)
Recorded: Chicago, 25 Novermber 1941.
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw The Blues 1931-1941
Saint Louis, Chicago, New York
Fremeaux & Associes Records FA 225 (1996)
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Bring me flowers whiles I'm livin'
Then don't bring them when I am dead
Bring me flowers whiles I'm livin'
Please don't bring them when I am dead
And bring ice bags to my bedside
Hoo-well-well, to cool my achin' head
When a man is sick in bed
Please come to my rescue
When I am sick in bed
Please come to my rescue
When a man is dead and gone
Hoo-well-well, how in the world
Did he know what you do?
Bring water to my bed
A drink will keep me cool
Bring me water to my bed
A drink will keep me cool
And just say after I am gone
Hoo-well-well, 'I sure tried to help that fool'
I'll stay here as long as I can
Leave when I can't help myself
I'll stay here as long as I can
Leave when I can't help myself
We's all got to die, hoo-well-well
And I ain't no better than no one else
Don't bring me flowers after I'm dead
A dead man sho' can't smell
Don't bring me flowers after I'm dead
A dead man sho' can't smell
And if I don't go to heaven
Hoo-well-well, I don't sure need no flowers in hell.
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