Stone For Bessie Smith-Dory Previn

[ti:Stone For Bessie Smith] [ar:Dory Previn] [al:In Search Of Mythical Kings (The UA Years)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stone For Bessie Smith - Dory Previn [00:15.35]Isn't it amazing [00:16.18] [00:18.24]Shakes you to the bone [00:20.05] [00:21.55]She bought a stone [00:22.96]For bessie smith [00:23.70] [00:24.69]She bought bessie smith a stone [00:26.55] [00:28.32]She got it for her grave-site [00:29.86] [00:31.63]On a temporary loan [00:33.03] [00:34.21]But she forgot [00:34.98] [00:35.62]She had not paid [00:36.64] [00:38.06]For her own [00:39.49] [00:40.99]She forgot she had not paid [00:43.22] [00:44.91]She forgot she had not paid [00:46.63] [00:48.59]After all the contracts [00:50.01] [00:50.89]And arrangements had been made [00:53.94] [00:55.24]She went to bessie's grave [00:56.79] [00:58.73]And marked it with a stone [01:00.64] [01:01.34]But she still [01:02.17] [01:03.14]Had to pay for her own [01:05.84] [01:11.51]She went home [01:12.28] [01:12.91]To her class reunion [01:14.10] [01:15.31]Where a class-mate he confessed [01:16.79] [01:19.08]She wouldn't want this getting out [01:20.90] [01:21.82]But she used to be the best [01:24.24] [01:25.08]In school she was a nice girl [01:27.89] [01:29.29]As descent as the rest [01:30.81] [01:31.83]Though she never was [01:33.27] [01:34.10]Conservatively dressed [01:36.01] [01:39.72]Isn't it amazing [01:40.86] [01:43.18]You think she could've known [01:45.39] [01:46.41]She bought a stone [01:47.72]For bessie smith she bought [01:49.17] [01:49.78]Bessie smith a stone [01:51.26] [01:53.14]She got it for her grave-site [01:55.26] [01:56.70]On a temporary loan [01:58.12] [01:59.40]But she forgot [02:00.16] [02:01.01]She had not paid [02:02.34] [02:03.59]For her own [02:04.40] [02:06.00]She forgot she had not paid [02:08.54] [02:10.15]She forgot she had not paid [02:12.52] [02:13.54]No sooner had the letters [02:15.36] [02:16.35]On the deed begun to fade [02:19.16] [02:20.79]When her ashes had been scattered [02:23.15] [02:24.30]Been battered and been blown [02:25.98] [02:27.45]But she forgot she had not paid [02:29.66] [02:32.10]For her own