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Mean Ol' Debil Jones

from Grainy Days by Jon Waterman

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Mean Ol Debil Jones


Devon Jones used to fish for crawdads in the river by the shack
Where he was born to bear the burden of the money that he lacked
He'd go to town on every Saturday to drink away his woes
And there one time he met himself a girl, and as the story goes
That night he lured her to the darkness & despite her tender age
He took her to his liking with a poor man's lust & rage & then he fled
Into the swampland thinking she was dead.

Chorus: And they all say stay away from mean old Debil Jones
He been mumbling bout the debil all the day
He's been locked up in Angola getting rickets in his bones
He must have learned himself some voodoo on the way

Charlie Taylor was a wealthy Texas oil driller's son
He bought a home in Louisiana when his daddy's day was done
He used his father's money wisely bought a shipping company
And he made himself a fortune selling oil cross the sea
He had a daughter Charlotte Ann, she was his pleasure and his pride
Cause she looked so like her ma who'd fallen down the stairs and died so long ago
Poor woman never saw her baby grow.

They found poor Charlotte Ann out in the street one Sunday morn
Her eyes were black and puffy and her clothes were ripped and torn
And she thought about her father, all his highfalutin airs
And she thought about her mother, all those whispers and the stairs
So when the sheriff asked who did it, her face turned sickly tones
And she said it was none other then that mean young debil Jones that hurt her so
And so away to prison he must go

Charlie Taylor's daughter died in labor, she never got to see the son
That was the product of that evil deed ol Devon Jones had done
And when that boy had long since became a man, he went to see that wicked soul
That had hurt his mama years before and now was on parole
But when he saw old Devon Jones, he was full of shock and fright
Cause he saw old Debil Jones was black, while he himself was white
Ain't it true- the wonders that that voodoo sure can do.
©2000, 2013, 2018 Jon Waterman (ASCAP)

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from Grainy Days, released March 16, 2018
Jon Waterman- Vocal and Guitars
Eric Brown- Drums
Steve Toutant- Bass
Derek Dupuis- Keyboards
John Devine- Harmonica
Jim Schunemann- Percussion

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