Po' Lazarus

From the movie O' Brother Where Art Thou, this is the song Po' Lazarus, by James Carter and The Prisoners. If you liked this song, you should go out and buy the soundtrack.
Lyrics-
Well, the high sheriff
He told his deputy
Want you go out and bring me Lazarus
Well, the high sheriff
Told his deputy
I want you go out and bring me Lazarus
Bring him dead or alive,
Lawd, Lawd
Bring him dead or alive
Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus
Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
Says I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus
Well he's a dangerous man
Lawd, Lawd
He's a dangerous man
Well then the high sheriff, he found Lazarus
He was hidin' in the chill of a mountain
Well the high sheriff, found Lazarus
He was hidin' in the chill of the mountain
With his head hung down
Lawd, Lawd
With his head hung down
Well then the high sheriff, he told Lazarus
He says Lazarus I come to arrest you
Well the high sheriff, told Lazarus
Says Lazarus I come to arrest you
And bring ya dead or alive
Lawd, Lawd
Bring you dead or alive
Well then Lazarus, he told the high sheriff
Says I never been arrested
Well Lazarus, told the high sheriff
Says I never been arrested
By no one man
Lawd, Lawd
By no one man
And then the high sheriff, he shot Lazarus
Well, he shot him mighty big number
Well the high sheriff, shot Lazarus
Well he shot him with a mighty big number
With a forty five
Lawd, Lawd
With a forty five
Well then they take old Lazarus
Yes they laid him on the commissary gallery
Well they taken poor Lazarus
And the laid him on the commissary gallery
He said my wounded side
Lawd, Lawd
My wounded side

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[sierrabravo05]

I don't want "fop", goddammit, I'm a Dapper Dan man

[Travis Bickle]

These are actual prisoners singing this song, one of them was tracked down 40 years later and paid royalties, the more you know.

[twiskins]

Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.

[twiskins]

No thank you Delmar, a third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.

[Kyle Boyer]

"Gopher Everett?" 

[bluevortex55]

Seeing as Europe (not all, but a good deal of) basically razed the entire path to, and area surrounding Israel while trying to "take back their holy land," slaughtering thousands of innocent people Muslim or otherwise, your point is really null. That past is the past, and all you're doin' is poking old wounds. It WAS wrong, and still is where it still exists, but Chronic and gmsm were talking about /current/ events that effect us /now/.

Sincerely,

I'm Wasting My Time

[bluevortex55]

You watch your language, young fella. This is a public market. If you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in about two weeks.

[ChronicThunder94]

I said I believe people who do crimes should have to work hard labor. Its simple, I don't give a fuck what they do in europe, This is America.

[Ken Kojei]

So ahole...what do you do about all the criminals who stole two continents, killed millions to take their land, kidnapped 4 million other people and dragged them into slavery? There is no court that stands on either continent that can point a finger at ANYBODY. It's very existence anywhere BUT Europe is the perpetration and continuation a too many crimes to count. Just you sitting your carcass on that land hold, calling it yours is aiding and abetting all those crimes. So? Talk tuh me!!!!

[Paul Peden]

where did you hear that?

[GiveMeMusic37]

Im laughing so hard at the comments on this it makes me so happy that this movie has an internet fan base

[Honey dee]

soundtrack is also great