The words of Bessie Smith

I love the old Blues players of yesteryear. They were wonderful storytellers with their songs of heartache, woe, secrets and pain so when I think of The Death Chair Confessions, I hear the voice of Bessie singing in my head.
It's a shame there is no footage of her singing this song but Dinah Washington sang it many years later. It doesn't have the same dark and gritty, soulful sound that was the great Bessie Smith but still.... here is Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair