Goodbye Jimmy Reed

I live on a street named after a saint
 Women in the churches wear powder and paint
 Where the Jews, and Catholics, and the Muslims all pray
 I can tell they're Proddie from a mile away
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Reed indeed
 Give me that old time religion, it's just what I need
 For thine is a kingdom, the power, the glory
 Go tell it on the mountain, go tell the real story
 Tell it in that straightforward, puritanical tone
 In the mystic hours when a person's alone
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, godspeed
 Thump on the bible, and proclaim a creed
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 You won't amount too much, the people all said
 'Cause I didn't play guitar behind my head
 Never pandered, never acted proud
 Never took off my shoes, throw 'em in the crowd
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, goodbye, goodnight
 Put a jewel in your crown and I put out the lights
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 They threw everything at me, everything in the book
 I had nothing to fight with but a butcher's hook
 They had no pity, they never lend a hand
 I can't sing a song that I don't understand
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, goodbye, good luck
 I can't play the record 'cause my needle got stuck
 Transparent woman in a transparent dress
 Suits you well, I must confess
 I'll break open your grapes, I'll suck out the juice
 I need you like my head needs a noose
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, goodbye and so long
 I thought I could resist her, but I was so wrong
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 God be with you, brother dear
 If you don't mind me asking, "What brings you here?"
 "Oh, nothing much, I'm just looking for the man
 Need to see where he's lying in this lost land"
 Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, and everything within ya
 Can't you hear me calling from down in Virginia?