Po Lazarus
Po Lazarus Lyrics

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Alexis Korner Well, the high sheriff, he told his deputy ""Won't you go…
J. Carter Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…
J. Carter & Prisoners Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…
James Carter The Prisoners Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…

James Carter & prisoners Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…
James Carter & The Prisoners Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…
James Carter - Po Lazarus Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy "Want you go out…

James Carter and The Prisoners Well, the high sheriff He told his deputy Want you go out…

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@omerrudnick8195

9y↑422

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

All comments from YouTube:

@omerrudnick8195

9y↑422

@vicorochavidal535

4y↑3

genial gracias

@mareks1261

3y↑1

Dzięki!

@hectorpaezescamez5817

2y↑3

La letra es acojonante!!!! ✌🏼

@rstone3353

2y↑4

Ain't much changed for Black folk, really!
Same thing now just a different day!

@miltonfelix6030

1y↑1

Thanks a lot.

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@ThaMadvonnie84

8y↑267

This song actually made me watch the movie to be honest. This song grips my soul.

@rickybrewerii572

8y↑4

I can dig it

@MrDark097

6y↑1

Chico Green which movie dude?

@bgodssoldier1

6y↑11

Danniel collado " o'brother where art thou"

@MrDark097

6y↑4

Oh! it's a great film!

@Himijendrix014

4y↑10

I love how they open the movie with that scene & song, it captures the setting & era of the movie right away. It shakes my soul that just 150+ years ago this was our society - such beauty in its simplicity & so unaware of what’s to come, much like any era, but still lacking accountability of a moral compass yet with a glimpses of social justice. It’s amazing how even then the “people” reigned by their sway of opinion overpowering the artiocrats somehow someway

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@magshot

12y↑30

the raw soul of this... the history, the emotion... really got to me. great stuff.

@vjoshuastock1758

6y↑129

The movie 'Oh brother where art thou' is a piece of Art.

@eternalbeing3339

35w

Good movie.

@deanwinchestah6607

7y↑18

God this is so soulful

@whtyc

3y↑22

Best song on the O, Brother soundtrack. Really powerful

@black4460

30w↑3

I like this old time stuff. I feel more connected to it then anything else.

@voztro

4y↑49

I play this wal I do my chores, reminds me of my ancestors and gives the the strength to finish this bs

@VeronicaMartinez-kw1qb

2y↑5

finish this bs😂

@theforcesofnature3128

2y↑2

wow thats powerful

@voztro

@TheForces ofNature ik

@droolingpine9658

23w

Tf your ancestors do?? Lmao be criminals?

@kidssadeqi3423

2y↑31

This hit harder than my masters whip.

@eternalbeing3339

35w

Lol

@AshBarkPerson

5y↑13

I just opened up three instances of this tab, because the ax hits sync up mostly, it's like the most chaotic soulful round ever

@blueberry3674

try playing it along W army marching cadence...interesting combo of sound an very similar rhythm.

@loveyou211ful

4y↑6

I don't know why feel an affinity to this song. it makes me feel ever so connected...to what I do not know. I just play it all the time.

@eternalbeing3339

35w↑1

Your ancestors or other spirits visiting you. After my grandpa passed away, i randomly had the urge to listen to 50's music that he used to play. I know he was visiting me.

@DavidLJarvis

3y↑8

When I was the tender age of eighteen I had the honor of being given the gift of listening to "No Dead Black Women". The soul of "God" in my opinion.

@Chikadee73

11y↑438

it's funny because james carter was recorded singing this sometime in the 50s, got out of jail, and forgot about it. suddenly when o brother where art thou was made he got $20 000 in royalties and he didn't even know about it. when they found him and gave him the cheque he hadn't seen the movie or heard the soundtrack.

@southwestmichiganobserver3511

2y↑4

Where did you read this? I had read once a few years ago about the recording artist using tap or clog like shoes in the audio to record this song. Now I don’t remember the article or who it was that recorded it.

@crotalusatrox7931

2y↑3

Amazing fact and an amazing song.

@tanakazinoro664

Send me the feed x

@t.k.1319

2y↑2

@Southwest Michigan Observer both of these things can be true.

@t.k.1319

2y↑1

Good on them for doing right by him. Also, amazing find from the music director of the film.

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@aspektx

2y↑5

Actually saw a short documentary visiting a train museum, living history site.

One of the presenters showed how the song's rhythm matched the work of straightening the railway tracks.

@KamalShariff

3y↑7

Poetic excellence in times of gross oppression.

@sonyjo861

48w

Love this song. Don’t love that the latest soundtrack (Volume 1 with the bonus tracks), removed this song from the soundtrack

@joshuabrooks4907

3y↑9

I understand that a prison guard recorded this for some unknown reason, and when the "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" soundtrack won Album of the Year in 2001, the lone surviving member of this group of prisoners was given a share of the royalties.

@garbeard3748

3y↑1

it was recorded by fame music collector, alan lomax

@FactsOnlyPlease.

2y↑1

I would have told them to keep their money. I rather had a life!

@mikshinee87

2y↑2

@T. Mont Well black men didn't have much of a choice. And they had a short life because of prison conditions. It's a miracle that this one man survived to be 77.

@Stepfather523

1y↑19

They dont need a autotune🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@comefeastwithme441

1y↑2

But you need grammar check

@comefeastwithme441

1y↑2

Great comment though

@Stepfather523

1y↑2

Okay

@roastierup8091

21w

I don't know if I can agree and Disagree about the reply

@prettyboi1914

7y↑10

I remember singing this while marching and climbing the mountains to Sigma land

@MrMossberg1

13y↑11

im from louisiana nd i love this type of music its right from the soul nd you can feel it

@meradmohamedmehdi6847

1y↑4

I am from Algeria and so in love with this soulful songs

@raymonds7492

1y↑1

We get our soul and our rhythm from Africa after all

@meradmohamedmehdi6847

@Raymond S
This is ahelil .. traditional religious songs from south of Algeria ...
You can hear the ( call and response) just like blues ..and also the leader high notes
https://youtu.be/h693EHA5rWA

@belfastwildchild

29w↑1

this song is pure Americana at its finest

@talon86blake59

2y↑2

At work right now with this playing shuffling my feet lol

@SlashUgly

9y↑54

Oh man, I just love the internet! This is amazing!

@SomeoneJr

+Colorado Man i found a nice rich vein of cool shit in the the ether

@Research0digo

+George Tayler Hunter S Thompson did too.

@yuriso9883

Vai internacional

@chase6677

2y↑13

👴🏻-music to my hears

@Research0digo

8y↑12

One thing to help keep us going in this world - God WILL have His vengeance.

@MrBSeanB

Research0digo

@zibounne6193

7y↑2

Bad news. There is no such thing as God.

@viktoriyaivanovnaserebryak615

2y↑1

brings back memories 😂

@BadMonEhan

1y↑2

I sing this at school when the teacher gives me the sweeping job

@northrockboy

8y↑79

bet those guys were as tough as nails - at least they kept their spirits

@hwgray

5y↑8

Well, when the choice is either shit or go blind, what else are they going to do?

@BoogalooBoy

3y↑3

Me when I'm doin' yard work in August weather.

@goodman409

22w↑2

💯💯shit goes hard

@adamcrookedsmile

12y↑2

thanks for clearing this up. Until now I thought US prisons were segregated along with schools and hospitals.

@garbeard3748

3y↑2

they were

@amandalin4102

lol looking at yt comments from a decade ago are hilarious bc the site has changed so much these are kinda illegible

@raphallo

7y↑10

i'm using it as alarm clock sometimes :)

@criez7236

1y↑1

Is lazarus in the end survived the shot, or he is still somehow alive?

@vclassickillz901

47w↑4

👴🏻 ahh the good old days

@eternalbeing3339

35w↑1

Good times.

@NWSaint

LoL.. hate to say this, especially in this day and PC age, but seriously, this reminds me of a scene from the movie entitled "Blazing Saddles" where the deputy states "c'mon now, give us a good ol' N' work song"... for whatever reason, this song always comes to mind.... them mf'ers slingin' it though, big time maulin' it, sweat drip'n, workin' for the man.......... respect!

@patrickrostock8494

12y↑7

Prisons were segregated, and there were no white inmates on this particular chain gang. White inmates were also subject to chain gangs, but this recording was made by Alan Lomax in 1959 at Mississippi State Penitentiary, which remained racially segregated into the 1970s. Also, the correctional staff was entirely white at the time, so it follows that white inmates likely received preferential treatment. Prison's no picnic, but let's not pretend that black inmates didn't have it tougher.

@lucjanssens6698

2y↑1

where can I find the chords?

@walterschroeder9995

Einfach toll das du erinnerst ❤

@neuralnetwork17

12y

Thank you, finally someone says something that makes sense.

@Alpsan6

1y↑1

missing good ol dayz son

@tiralarc

10y↑11

At least he's got his money.So pretty honest of the Coen Brothers. But anyway, thanks for this info.

@Leon-zu1wp

6y↑9

If you wanna know how old this song is: lookup what a High Sheriff actually is.

@scottmccluremcclure3916

4y↑1

Was it the one chasing Robin Hood

@klistiranikrupije1724

8y↑27

These are real roots of rock music, especially heavy metal. I, as a white man, bow to the ground to these true artists who as prisoners and former slaves are million times more honest, mesmerizing and creative than any musician of European descent.

@Dr.JeremyDunks

Bless the Lomaxes for appreciating and recording these tunes. otherwise stuff like this and the blues movement may never have happened

@askariseraphim

8y↑3

Chauchat 3137 you do realize that even the prisons were segregated so there was no white prisoners singing in this song.... and as for the white slaves myth... they suffer indignity under cruel slave like conditions. they were by no means slave you can look the up in any credible source of history. indentured servants yes. hard labors, yes. penal colonies yes. slaves No...

@askariseraphim

Green EyedMonstr what an appropriate moniker.... its better then the music on your page...

@greeneyedmonstr241

7y↑2

luv u.

@askariseraphim

7y↑2

Also white slavery never exsisted in north america. You can corroborate that on any verified source (Wikipedia) maybe a .gov or .edu when you come back with that we will talk anyone can make a wikipedia page about anything...

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@eternalbeing3339

35w

There is something creepy about this. Waiting for a ghost slave to walk out of the darkness with a pitchfork.

@user-jh8eq9mn3q

2y↑2

Makes me smile thinking of these men under the sun breaking down stones and screaming together. Makes me think they probably belong to that work by divine providence.

@eternalbeing3339

35w

That is horrible 😔

@Research0digo

8y↑1

Thank you Elena.

@EliaFlowers

Listening to this while cleaning my room

@user-ik1my4vc5l

41w↑1

Esta canción no debería existir. Para mi, en este momento de mi vida, tiene una belleza que solo radica en que no debería de haber existido nunca.

@anandaalvarez4336

34w

amén

@katiamagalhaes6680

I love that so much.

@user-px7ks4up2m

23w

Psalms 137:3
Psalms 137:3 KJV: For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ^ WE ARE THE REAL JEWS

@psbjr

11y↑1

"run around in beads"--you mean like rosaries, earings, or pearls? "clucking at each other"--you mean like talking? Also the last I looked running was good for you and prevented things like heart disease. As for moving back, the natives in America did a great job keeping a pristine landscape for thousands of years, until the euros got here and proceeded to destroy every living thing. Over 80% of streams are now dead. But yeah just keep saying everyone else is savage and needs to move away.

@tedbundy5372

I play this song when I'm mowing lawns in my neighborhood.
Especially LOUD in White Neighborhoods.
AHHH LAWD, LAWD!!!

@TannerZOnline

Nobody finds it lazy that the entire movie is based off other people’s creations 😂 the story is just the odyssey

@zacklukosius3747

9y↑18

some of these comments were enlightening, sharing in the dark history of humanity together, united by our love of solemn, soulful song...

then there's people who don't look to their fellow humans and see responsible, thinking agents. it's this second branch of people that holds humanity back from being just, united, and powerful as fuck. the conservative few have power hold fast to it, and move to secure it.

we don't move to secure power, we move to live. we dance and breathe the air of life, not the air of certainty. fuck 'em, but remember! every human on this planet has a story, and not a single story out of 7 billion should be ignored.

@donnarogers7732

Well said!Zack! I've watched this kind of thing my whole life,fought it,tried with all my might to live a different attitude than the times I was born into! Now look at this country and the people who are so called running it!!! My heart is sick and my soul sad that we as a nation,a society ,as a humanity have taken so few steps forward to stop the prejudice! I'll not have many years left to see the change I have always hoped for ,as far as we have come,there are still so many miles before we get it! Let each individual live respectfully,lovingly,and without judgment! One finger pointing forward has four pointing backwards! Peace to this Mighty Planet!

@megalodon7916

+Donna “Few steps forward”? Do have any idea how far we’ve come!? To say we haven’t come far is an insult to all the people who have fought for equal rights over the years, and to the memory of those who died in that struggle! The world has come a long way in the past century. Do not make light of the progress that has been made!

@winstonsmith9533

Conservatives? It was the Democrats who instituited Jim Crow, no?

@djjmann

11y

Slavery existed long before the Spanish ever set saild to what is now North America. Research Liberia, as well as some other various African practices. Slavery was alive and well within the African subsaharan communities. Moreso, like black Americans want to consider themselves "African" without knowing their own history.

@lookingfor-work2015

Black Americans Are Not African at all.. we are the children of Israel

@garbeard3748

you white?

@gaspersnakes

37w

@@lookingfor-work2015what? They are? Since their black. Also i wanna say hi mate how you doing

@rosstaylor8584

28w

If anyone is interested in listening to more of this music, check out john lomax prison recordings. I imagine this, too, was recorded by john and his son alan lomax.

@nadiabuchschacher2625

35w

Schweiz sagt Dankeschön für die Musik 🎶 alles andere brutal

@J.Strantz

5y↑5

When you get arrested for stealing metronomes. Full circle. Brutal. 😓

@timerM

1y↑1

hits harder then mastas whip

@serjeoindahouse9345

Спасибо!

@karaokedream1815

22w

Спасибо.

@smokingjoe9864

5y↑2

No way I would be in charge of a gang of men with axes

@jcook693

5y↑6

My dad was on a chain gang in the late 70s/ early 80s for failure to pay child support

@garbeard3748

it's a cruel system

@alleynealisleem9777

4y↑1

🙏❤️

@britster

6y↑1

My uncle James Carter escaped from prison long long times ago and they I got him ten years later

@garbeard3748

wow. was he the same james carter who was credited and paid for the rights of the recording when it was used for the coen brothers movie

@fakemrvo2302

2y↑1

Banger

@Research0digo

8y↑9

15 people either don't know who Lazarus was (and then was, again) lol - or they just have no soul.
Story goes of a plantation owner's wife asking her husband one day, if we beat them and treat them lower than animals, why do we teach them scripture? (I'm sorry I can't remember verbatim - such is old brain.)
So many thieves, wife-beaters, debtors who can't pay - many were Caucasian, but it's always 'the other' that's easier to beat down. In the case of the chain gang, plantaion workers - everything, black men filled the bill.
No one gave a second's thought about who was going to wake up the next morning and go bust rock.
Anything was better than seeing Black Betty, though.

@pamfogarty337

Research0digo

@brickblobima1585

47w

mom put me in the corner 😢😢😢

@StandingInHisWind

6y↑2

These comments are disheartening 😕. Amazing song, such soul and lack of restraint in their voices.

@_tsl

they all your people tho 🤷‍♂ no pressure

@biancabautista2710

Anyone here after reading about it in the Ahhh- Inspiring Bathroom Reader? 😊

@matthewcameron6366

11y

hallaluya bruda PW

@smokingjoe9864

5y↑5

Tells us about the Boom Boom Club Ray.

@updownstate

5y↑2

i remember seeing chain gangs in the southern u.s. in the sixties. awful.

@SoHoDave

Lawd, Lawd, my wounded side 😣

@GabbeBabbe1x1x178

27w

Everyone sings this at school

@michaelmortenson5200

12y↑2

cousin of mine did time and told me that all cons are innocent. it's just a question of "innocent of what?" he said "god puts us all in there for something. we're all guilty of something, sometimes god incarcerates us here for something only him and I know bout. innocent of somethings but guilty of others" I never thought of him as wise but i could be wrong.

@zank838

Mais alguém pelo livro AZ ???????

@tbone426

4y↑1

We won’t be equal until you’ve given us 400 years😈 I’ll be waiting for you.

@ryanOGab

4y↑1

Their not equal and nor should they be as they are prisoners not slaves, they have broken the /a law.

@tbone426

Ry O' we’re still gonna do our enemy the same way the did us since the birth of the USA aka Babylon. They’re gonna hate me on my plantation 😈

@ryanOGab

4y↑2

King Lil Tey well they deserved it they are prisoners they committed crimes they are not victims ,you are also not a victim! And theses people are not related to you in anyway. Nor did it happen to you, you’ve no right to claim being a victim for something you never had to endure in time you didn’t exist in. Victimhood is (laziness) an excuse so you never have to strive for anything and demand that everything is given to you. So there is no risk of you ever having a plantation.😎😜as that requires work,effort,craft intellect and skill.

@josgretf2800

@King Lil Tey Mate, many of these men were rapists and murderers. they aren't on a chain gang for being nice guys

@peterbudo9204

When you were slaves, you sang like 🐦 birds. I didn't say it, Mel Brooks did!

@William125

7y↑3

Je l'apprends en 4 ème ! :p

I learn it in 4th

@nemestos8401

7y↑1

Je pigais rien de ce qui disait XD !

@melaniebricet2327

7y↑1

William125 moi aussi je l'apprends

@celinepalvadeau1842

la mème

@ItaloPrimus

10y↑3

J'aimerais trouver les paroles.

@Research0digo

8y↑1

+Italo Primus Merci.

@jahazure2741

Lazarus ma middle name. Had to hear 👂

@MsCaLilyEargasmics

12y

I wouldve liked to see more pics in the vid...:(

@guitarhero2211

12y

that was usually how it was.

@somerandomgamer6195

5y↑6

O Brother, were art thou anyone

@chriswelcome8102

Where else you heard it?

@TheDMt7679

10y

reddit bump

@nadiabuchschacher2625

35w

😢❤❤❤❤😢😢❤❤

@rickyarbro6270

4y↑1

Po Lazarus

@guitarhero2211

13y↑1

how many of those men do you think are innocent?

@garbeard3748

3y↑3

almost all

@mkofismith

3y↑3

MANY... see the Jim Crow laws enforced and supported by the 13th Amendment.

@AssasiCraftYogUscus

2y↑1

Easily over 75%, it be impossible to tell cause some charges were just made up.

@djjmann

11y

Yeah, I'm aware of all that. Same with the SSN. Branded for lyfe, yo.

@gravityrushfan299

49w

Mike mavrik dark past before he became gohanic black. And later realized that works and low wage jobs are actually soft version of slavery.

@LeeByrne316

Say!
Any o' you boys smithies?

@davidrule1335

They seem happy to me?

@bastienduris5146

5y↑1

I have dream !

@twiskins

11y↑13

Pete got a brother?

@the0wler14

on the second photo. Did they dig that deep or what?

@DevranEyigun-ns1tw

24w

Qui est là pour la musique

@user-vr3gv4ju8m

You are closer..

@ryanOGab

4y↑1

They are wearing prison gear, are they slaves or prisoners.

@herninko0422

4y↑2

The men in this recording are prisoners working on a chain gang. Busting up rocks with pick axes. This is also the earliest known recording that is in stereo .