God's Gonna Cut You Down in Beta

January 22, 2025

🖋️ God’s Gonna Cut You Down has officially hit beta! I’ll be reaching out to the beta readers list to see who’s interested. There are 53 chapters waiting everybody (don’t be too alarmed—many are small).

🎶 I’ve also wrapped up the first pass on chapter song titles, so as a preview:

  • All Shook Up — Elvis
  • Big River — Johnny Cash
  • Black Cadillac — Joyce Green
  • Blowin’ in the Wind — Bob Dylan
  • Come On-A My House — Rosemary Clooney
  • Cool Water — Johnny Cash
  • Cry Me A River — Julie London
  • Devil or Angel — The Clovers
  • Donna — Ritchie Valens
  • Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) — The Penguins
  • Framed — Ritchie Valens
  • Ghost Riders in the Sky — Johnny Cash
  • God Only Knows — The Beach Boys
  • God’s Gonna Cut You Down — Johnny Cash
  • He’ll Have to Go — Jim Reeves
  • Hellhound on My Trail — Robert Johnson
  • I Put a Spell on You — Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
  • I’ll Fly Away — Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, The Stanley Brothers
  • Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall — Ella Fitzgerald and The Inkspots
  • It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie — The Inkspots
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider — 
  • Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye — Folk Song
  • Keep a-Knockin’ — James “Boodle It” Wiggins, Buddy Holly, Little Richard
  • Leader of the Pack — Shangri-Las
  • Lean on Me — Bill Withers
  • Let the Good Times Roll — Louis Jordan
  • Mack the Knife — Bobby Darin
  • Mighty Mighty Man — Roy Brown
  • Nature Boy — Nat King Cole
  • Only the Lonely — Roy Orbison
  • Paint It Black — The Rolling Stones
  • Robot Walk — Pat and Lolly Vegas
  • Rumble — Link Wray & His Ray Men
  • Run for your life — Beatles
  • Somebody Nobody Wants — Dion
  • Stagger Lee — Lloyd Price
  • Stand By Me — Ben E. King
  • Stay Beside Me — Ritchie Valens
  • Surfin’ Bird — The Trashmen
  • Sympathy For The Devil — The Rolling Stones
  • The Great Pretender — The Platters
  • The Hunter — Albert King
  • The Man Comes Around — Johnny Cash
  • Too Many Secrets — Patsy Cline
  • Trouble — Elvis Presley
  • Trouble in Mind — Big Bill Broonzy / Nina Simone
  • Unchained Melody — The Righteous Brothers
  • Volver, Volver — Vicente Fernández
  • Wayfaring Stranger — Johnny Cash
  • Yakety Yak — The Coasters
  • You Don’t Know Me — Eddy Arnold, Ray Charles
  • You Rascal You — Louis Armstrong
  • You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught — Rodgers and Hammerstein (from South Pacific)

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