Name: The Misery Bed
Duration: P00H03M01S
Description: The Misery Bed: This was the first song we worked on together—we didn’t know how or if working remotely would work. I just remember not wanting to stop playing music, that if we couldn’t do this, it was going to be hard to bear, sitting at home, watching the body count rise around us, waiting for the virus to come skipping in a run. Bad news is hard to sleep on.

The Misery Bed

from Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs by the Cornelius Eady Trio by Cornelius Eady Trio

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The Misery Bed: This was the first song we worked on together—we didn’t know how or if working remotely would work. I just remember not wanting to stop playing music, that if we couldn’t do this, it was going to be hard to bear, sitting at home, watching the body count rise around us, waiting for the virus to come skipping in a run. Bad news is hard to sleep on.

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Words and Music: Cornelius Eady

I’m lying in bed,
Staring at the ceiling
Laying in the misery bed
The rain is falling,
And the paint is peeling
Laying in the misery bed

Lord, who put me in the misery bed? Lord, who put me in the misery bed?
What did I do, what got said?
Lord, who put me in the misery bed?

The pillow’s a razor
And the mattresses on fire
Laying on the misery bed
Thrash like a bug
Impaled on a wire
Laying on the misery bed

Lord, who put me in the misery bed?
Lord, who put me in the misery bed?
What did I do, what got said?
Lord, who put me in the misery bed?

There’s a nasty, nasty, nasty flu.
Laying in the misery bed
Might take me and he might take you
Laying in the misery bed
Gobbles up your ease, then asks for more
Laying in the misery bed
You sweat and worry ‘bout his knock at the door.

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from Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs by the Cornelius Eady Trio, released November 11, 2021

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Founded in 1974 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, June Appal Recordings is the non-profit record label of Appalshop. It was established to record and distribute the music and stories of accomplished central Appalachian artists.

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