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	Black Betty
		Writers: Huddie Ledbetter Published: Kensington Music Limited From: The Ram Jam Band - Black Betty (7", UK) Source: Pop-Catastrophe.co.uk Notes: This is the most well-known rock arrangement of the song by Ram Jam (VIEW RELEASE). The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion recorded a cover of this track (VIEW LYRICS) for a Volkswagen advert [LINK] which also appears on a split 7" single with the Melvins (VIEW RELEASE). Although the earliest known recording is by James Iron Head Baker and Group (1933) the Blues Explosion version has more in common with the Leadbelly adaption (VIEW RELEASE / VIEW LYRICS).
	Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Black Betty had a child [Bam-a-lam] The damn thing gone wild [Bam-a-lam] Said it weren't none of mine [Bam-a-lam] The Damn thing gone blind [Bam-a-lam] I said Oh, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] You're gonna get me high [Bam-a-lam] You know that's no lie [Bam-a-lam] She's so rock steady [Bam-a-lam] And she's always ready [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] She's from Birmingham [Bam-a-lam] Way down in Alabam' [Bam-a-lam] Well, she's shakin' that thing [Bam-a-lam] Boy, she makes me sing [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam] Whoa, Black Betty [Bam-a-lam]