The 1919 Influenza Blues

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It was nineteen hundred and nineteen Men and women were dying With the stuff that the doctor called the flu People were dying everywhere Death was creepin' all through the air And the groans of the rich sure was sad Well it was God's almight plan He was judging this old land North and south, east and west It can be seen It killed the rich, killed the poor It's gonna kill just a little more If you don't turn away from the shame Down in Memphis, Tennessee The doctor said it soon would be In a few days influenza would be controlled Doctor sure man he got had Sent the doctors all home to bed And the nurses all broke out with the same Well it was God's almight plan He was judging this old land North and south, east and west It can be seen It killed the rich, killed the poor It's gonna kill just a little more If you don't turn away from the shame Influenza is the kind of disease Makes you weak down to your knees Carries a fever everybody surely dreads Packs a pain in every bone In a few days, you are gone To that hole in the ground called your grave Well it was God's almight plan He was judging this old land North and south, east and west It can be seen It killed the rich, killed the poor It's gonna kill just a little more If you don't turn away from the shame