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Performance, Music, Recording: Anaezia from Nepal (alias)
Writer, Lyrics: ustaknow (alias)

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lyrics

When fortune's blind goddess
Had fled my abode,
And friends proved unfaithful,
I took to the road;
To plunder the wealthy
And relieve my distress,
I bought you to aid me,
My Black Betty best

No vile whip nor spur
Did your sides ever gall,
For none did you need,
You would bound at my call;
And for each act of kindness
You would me caress,
Thou art never unfaithful,
My Black Betty best

When dark, sable midnight
Her mantle had thrown
O'er the bright face of nature,
How oft we have gone
To famed Hotels wealth,
Though an unwelcome guest
To the minions of fortune,
With my Black Betty's best

How silent you stood
When the highway we stopped,
The gold and the jewels
Its inmates would drop.
No poor man I plundered
Nor e'er did oppress
The widows or orphans,
My Black Betty' best

When clear-eyed justice
Did me hot pursue,
From Fort Worth to Tucson
To Oklahoma we flew.
Not in Albuquerque nor Memphis
Did we stop,
And in no time we made it,
Me and Black Betty, best

But hate darkens o'er me,
Despair is my lot,
And the law does pursue me
For the many I've shot;
To save me, poor brute,
Thou hast done thy best,
Thou art worn out and weary,
My Black Betty' best

In years past my death
When long dead and gone,
This story will be handed
From father to son;
My fate some will pity,
My fate some caress
This outlaw never caught,
'Cause of my Black Betty' best

So this songs for you,
Your cold black steel
You warmed quickly for me
To penetrate and free
You took all that heat
And in between rough shots
You too supplied meat
My best Black Beauty, my Black Betty' best

credits

from J​.​A. Lomax (slightly) Revisited [5090​-​2021 sub​-​project * BANNED2022 * ] Cancelled! First Amendment, released June 25, 2022
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Inspired by American heritage music
captured by J.A. Lomax pre-1899

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