Hezeklan Jones (Black Cross)-Bob Dylan

[ti:Black Cross (Gaslight Cafe)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Mixed up Confusion 1962] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hezeklan Jones (Black Cross) - Bob Dylan [00:09.92]This is the story of Hezekiah Jones [00:11.55] [00:15.58]Hezekiah Jones lived in a place in Arkansas [00:20.58] [00:21.95]He never had too much except he had some land [00:27.27] [00:31.20]An' he had a couple of hogs and things like that [00:34.45] [00:38.37]He never had much money [00:39.55]But he'd spend what he did make as fast as he made it [00:44.42] [00:45.16]So it never really mattered that he had much money [00:47.32] [00:49.14]But in a cupboard there he kept in the cupboard [00:57.28] [01:00.91]He kept in the cupboard books [01:02.41] [01:04.01]He called the books his rainy season [01:09.24] [01:17.75]The white folks around the county there talked about Hezekiah [01:21.68] [01:25.68]They said Well old Hezekiah he's harmless enough [01:32.97] [01:34.56]But the way I see it he better put down them goddam books [01:39.86] [01:41.90]Readin' ain't no good for an ignorant nigger [01:43.75] [01:54.47]One day the white man's preacher came around [01:57.11] [01:58.47]Knockin' on doors knockin' on all the doors in the county [02:01.89]He knocked on Hezekiah's door [02:03.28] [02:04.98]He says Hezekiah you believe in the Lord [02:06.85] [02:08.38]Hezekiah says well I don't know I never really SEEN the Lord [02:13.65]I can't say yes I do [02:15.06] [02:19.42]He says Hezekiah you believe in the Church [02:21.51]Hezekiah says well the Church is divided ain't they [02:24.68] [02:26.61]And they can't make up their minds [02:28.23]I'm just like them I can't make up mine either [02:30.88] [02:34.07]He says Hezekiah you believe that [02:35.71]If a man is good Heaven is his last reward [02:38.53] [02:39.04]Hezekiah says I'm good good as my neighbor [02:45.33] [02:50.06]You don't believe in nothin' said the white man's preacher [02:52.51] [02:54.12]You don't believe in nothin' [02:55.11] [02:56.56]Oh yes I do says Hezekiah [02:59.85] [03:02.35]I believe that a man should be indebted to his neighbors [03:11.00] [03:12.10]Not for the reward of Heaven or fear of hellfire [03:18.56] [03:20.42]But you don't understand said the white man's preacher [03:22.74]There's a lot of good ways for a man to be wicked [03:25.33] [03:29.76]Then they hung Hezekiah high as a pigeon [03:35.38] [03:40.86]White folks around there said well he had it comin' [03:47.81] [03:51.90]'Cause the sonofabitch never had no religion