Blind Gary Davis (1964)
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Blind Gary Davis (1964)
A view of the blind folk singer Gary Davis and the world in which he lived. Shows the interior of his room and the streets of Harlem as a background for the sound track and his final song "Death don't have no mercy."
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Complete Record: Blind Gary Davis (1964) A view of the blind folk singer Gary Davis and the world in which he lived. Shows the interior of his room and the streets of Harlem as a background for the sound track and his final song "Death don't have no mercy." Help us get more films like this online! This film was digitized and uploaded by the A/V Geeks thanks to contributions to this project: http://www.avgeeks.com/wp2/avgeeks100miles
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[Music] [Music] tell me what you going to do tell me what you going to [Music] do tell me [Music] [Music] I could talk a little bit to you and tell you I know how come by these things when I was a little boy my grandmother you know she used I used to sit down take pans you know make make me make me something to play my Grand I took more pie pant belong to my grandmother a little and I got more whooping by a little so she still I going to tear me one up you know said every time she go to St buy her one she buy me one cuz I going to tear the puss up so my mother said that boy going to be musician that said I'm going to buy him a guitar and I was 7 years old she bought me a guitar and it laid around the house about about about a week she she went to wake that morning left me with the guitar come back that morning I was eating that get to her up it just stayed around home a week I've been playing ever since that's [Music] right gu I'm crying just to go right on well I'm crying just to go right don't come I don't find no I feel like way go what I feel like going I feel like [Music] going I come this far I don't find no know [Music] like [Music] well yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes I'm preaching that to go right and I'm preaching just to go right on I don't come this I don't find no got no Li feel like go [Music] know feel like going well I feel like going I don't come this I don't find no like yes I'm praying just to go right now but I'm praying just to go right I don't come I don't no no well well yes I'm saying just to [Music] God I'm singing to go right on and I'm come this I don't find no no life got like go get out of [Music] here that's [Music] all you just a man don't you can't make stay away from your house you can tell me to stay away but you can't tell this man to stay away he won't stay away that don't have no mercy it just last it do have no mercy in the land when it come to in the house and it won't stay long you look in the bed you find your mother gone I don't have no my in take the last one out the family in you take the last one family and then l yeah come to house W be long you look in the bed you find the last one G don't have no [Music] mercy stand [Music] crying yeah stand cry in land come to a house and it won't stay Al well you look in the bed you find somebody go it doesn't leave you standing crying yes won't stay away from nobody in this land you can't won stay away [Music] nobody you ask you stay stay with he'll come to your house and it won't stay Al why you looking bed in the last one in the family go nobody [Music] in oh de never takes a vacation but we have a holiday never take vacation in well it'll come to your house and it won't stay long well you look in the bed you find somebody going that never takes a vacation in this land oh death ain't nothing put a robber in this land nobody make there nothing but a robber in come to your house and W St you look you find somebody go that's ain't nothing but a WR in don't pity nobody oh de don't pity nobody in the land oh come to your house and you won't see yes you look in the bed you find your loved ones gone there no pity nobody in this land but they robbed me out of my mother in the land rob me out of my mother in oh where they come to your house and it Wy Lord why you look in the you find somebody that Rob me out of my mother in this mer he come to a house W stay [Music]
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