Ray Bryant - Little Susie (Live Version)

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[02:04.71]eng eng……lalala……
[02:56.80]somebody killed little susie
[03:00.48]the girl with the tune
[03:02.88]who sings in the daytime at noon
[03:07.08]she was there screaming
[03:09.57]beating her voice in her doom
[03:13.80]but nobody came to her soon...
[03:17.38]a fall down the stairs
[03:19.87]her dress torn
[03:22.77]oh the blood in her hair...
[03:24.59]a mystery so sullen in air
[03:27.88]she lie there so tenderly
[03:30.69]fashioned so slenderly
[03:33.45]lift her with care,
[03:35.72]oh the blood in her hair...
[03:43.16]everyone came to see
[03:46.88]the girl that now is dead
[03:49.41]so blind stare the eyes in her head...
[03:52.99]and suddenly a voice from the crowd said
[03:57.96]this girl lived in vain
[03:59.87]her face bear such agony, such strain...
[04:04.13]but only the man from next door
[04:07.30]knew little susie and how he cried
[04:09.21]as he reached down
[04:11.69]to close susie’s eyes...
[04:14.63]she lie there so tenderly
[04:17.12]fashioned so slenderly
[04:20.05]lift her with care
[04:22.73]oh the blood in her hair...
[04:29.12]it was all for god’s sake
[04:31.52]for her singing the tune
[04:34.64]for someone to feel her despair
[04:39.85]to be damned to know hoping is dead and you’re doomed
[04:45.18]then to scream out
[04:46.96]and nobody’s there...
[04:53.61]she knew no one cared...
[04:57.69]father left home, poor mother died
[05:01.31]leaving susie alone
[05:04.18]grandfather’s soul too had flown...
[05:07.76]no one to care
[05:10.54]just to love her
[05:11.77]how much can one bear
[05:14.72]rejecting the needs in her prayers...
[05:18.70]neglection can kill
[05:21.10]like a knife in your soul
[05:23.36]oh it will
[05:25.20]little susie fought so hard to live...
[05:29.15]she lie there so tenderly
[05:31.62]fashioned so slenderly
[05:34.56]lift her with care
[05:36.88]so young and so fair
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