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