Blues' Ten Plagues: Death Don't Have No Mercy in Egyptland

Haggadah Section: -- Ten Plagues

Death Don't Have No Mercy (Classic folk blues by the Reverend Gary Davis; Words Modified by Rabbi Nadav Caine)

Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land
Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land,
He’ll come to your house, blood and frogs on the floor,
Lice and beasts coming through your door,
Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land.

Death won’t give you time to get ready in Egypt land
Death won’t give you time to get ready in Egypt land 
Well he’ll come to your fields, he won't stay long,
Death is killing everything on all fours,
Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land.

Death will leave you standing and crying in Egypt land,
Death will leave you standing and crying in Egypt land
He'll give you boils as darkness drops.
Then hail and locusts will take your crop,
Death will leave you standing and crying in Egypt land.

Death will take your family in Egypt land,
Death will take your family in Egypt land,
Come to your house, he won't stay long,
Put blood on the door, Or find your oldest gone.
Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land.

Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land.
I said Death don't have no mercy in Egypt land. 

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