You Better Mind

DESCRIPTION: Leader lines out a line -- for example, "You better mind how you talk"; all come in the second line -- in this case, "You better mind what you're talkin' about" -- and the tag, "you've got to give an account of the Judgment, You better mind"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (LomaxCD1713,LomaxArchive))
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "You Better Mind" (on LomaxCD1713)
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "You Better Mind How You Talk", St Simon's Island GA, October 1959, Association for Cultural Equity Lomax Digital Archive, ref=T922R05, accessed 19 July 2023 from LomaxArchive at https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/st-simons-island-i-1059/you-better-mind-how-you-talk
NOTES [86 words]: The description follows the LomaxArchive text.
Additional verses are "You're going around here from door to door You're talking about things that you really don't know," "You're going around here from place to place The way you're living is a real disgrace." "Before that preacher baptised you You know what you promised God you would do." "You know you get in the field and you don't want to fight You joined the church but you won't live right."
The LomaxArchive track is the accompaniment for a "ring shout." - BS
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