*The lyrics shown here are not from official sources and are not completely accurate*
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION > LYRICS > SORTED BY ALBUM
Afro Alex Attack Attack (Detroit) Back Slider Bacon / Bacon (Sansano) Banana Version Banana Meltdown Beat of the Traps Bellbottoms (Album) Bellbottoms (Single) Bellbottoms (Original Long Ending) Bent Bernie Big Road Big Yule Log Boogie Black Betty Black Betty (Advert) The Black Godfather Blowing My Mind Blue Green Olga Blues Explosion Attack Blues Power Blues X Man Blues X Man (Live) Brenda Burn It Off Buscemi Calvin Calvin (Full) Calvin's On a Bummer Can't Stop Caroline Chicken Dog Chicken Legs Chowder Cold Cold Eyes (Demo) Cold Cold Eyes (Live) Confused Confused (Zebra Ranch) Cool Vee Cowboy Crunchy Damage Dang Desperate Devil Got My Woman Diamonds Ditch Dissect Down In The Beast Down Low (Studio) Down Low (Live) Do Ya Wanna Get It? Do You Wanna Get Heavy? Dynamite Lover Electricity Eyeballin' Fed Up And Low Down Firefly Child Flavor Flavor (Remix) Frosty Junction Fuck Shit Up Fuck Shit Up (Live) Fudgy The Whale Full Grown The Funky Gremlin Get Down Lover Get Old Get Over Here Get With It Get With It (Live) Get Your Pants On (KEXP) Get Your Pants On (Daytrotter) Greyhound Ghetto Mom Give Me A Chance Grinding Happy Birthday Elvis Presley Hell Help These Blues Hey Mom High Gear History Of Lies Hold On Honey Bee Hot Gossip Hot Shot Identify Inside The World Of The Blues Explosion I Wanna Make It Alright Jailhouse Blues Kawasaki ZII750 Rock 'n' Roll Killer Wolf Killer Wolf (Live) Lap Dance Latch On Leave Me Alone So I Can Rock Again Like A Bat Love Ain't On The Run Love All Of Me Lovin' Machine Lovin' Machine (Automator) Lovin' Up A Storm Magical Colors Magical Colors (31 Flavors) Mars, Arizona Mean Heart Mean Heart (Live) Meet Me In The City Memphis Soul Typecast The Midnight Creep The Midnight Creep (Live) Money Rock 'N' Roll Mother Nature My War Naked New Year (Destroyer) New Year (Rough) No Reservations Not Clear Still Not Yet Ole Man Trouble Orange Over And Over Over And Over (Live) Pant Leg Point Of View Push Some Air Rattling Rattling (Radio) Right Place Wrong Time Rivals R.L. Got Soul Rob K / Rob K is President Rocketship Rocket USA Rock Hard Roosevelt Hotel Blues Shake A Leg Shakin' Rock 'N' Roll Tonight She Said She Said (Single Edit) Showgirl Pts 1 & 2 Sideways Soul Skunk Son of Sam Son of Sam (Live) Soul Letter Soul Typecast Special Rider Blues Spoiled Sticky Sweet N Sour Sweat Sweat (Live) Talk About The Blues T.A.T.B. (For The Saints and Sinners Remix) Tell Me That You Love Me Texas Blues Then Again I Will There Stands The Glass Tore Up & Broke Torture Train #1 Train #2 Try a Little Tenderness 2Kindsa Love Unknown Title #1 Unknown Title #2 Unknown Title #3 (Almost Too Much) Unknown Title #4 (American Dream) Very Rare Wail Wail (Video Mix) Wait A Minute Welcome To Daytrotter Wet Cat Blues World Of Sex You Been My Baby	Black Betty (Advert) Writers: Huddie Ledbetter Published: Folkways Music Publishers, Inc. From: Melvins / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Black Betty (7", US) Source: Pop-Catastrophe.co.uk Notes: Recorded for a Volkswagen advert co-produced and mixed by the Elegant Too. These are the lyrics as they are on the 30 second clip [LINK] with full length version released as a split 7" with the Melvins. Although the earliest known recording is by James Iron Head Baker this recording would appear to be a cover of the version made famous by Leadbelly (VIEW LYRICS) and the most well-known rock arrangement of the song is by Ram Jam (VIEW RELEASE / VIEW LYRICS). Writing credits for this song are sometimes given as 'traditional'. Oh, Black Betty Bama lam Woah, Black Betty Bama lam Black Betty had a child Bama lam The damn thing go wild Bama lam She's so rock steady [She's so rock steady] Bama lam [Bama lam] She's always ready [She's always ready] Bama lam [Bama lam] Oh, Black Betty [Oh, Black Betty] Bama lam [Bama lam] Move Black Betty [Black Betty] b, b, b, b, bama lam Black Betty [Black Betty] b, b, b, b, oh