Bettye Lavette – "Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)" (2018)

Don’t want to judge nobody

Don’t want to be judged

For a lazy blog author like yours truly, the Eastern Shore Undercover Facebook page is the gift that keeps on giving.

Eastern Shore Undercover – which I’ll abbreviate as “ESU” – is a social media-based news source that reports on the goings-on of the police departments and sheriff’s offices of the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland – Wicomico and Worcester Counties, to be precise.

Click here to visit ESU’s website, which has links you can use to follow Eastern Shore Undercover on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram.

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Matthew 7:1 – which reads “Judge not that ye be not judged” – is perhaps the most ignored verse in the entire Bible.  

Despite Matthew’s command, pretty much everyone judges other people – which includes pretty much everyone who comments on the items on ESU’s Facebook page.  

Here’s a recent ESU post: 

That post really brought the Matthew 7:1 nonbelievers out of the woodwork.  Here are the comments of just a few of the people who chose to judge rather than judge not:

Other commenters weren’t so quick to judge:

One wag was amused by the fact that not only did the commenters jump to conclusions, but that they jumped to diametrically opposed conclusions:

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Here’s another ESU post that inspired a lot more judging than judging not:

Most of the comments were along the lines of this one:

A couple of amateur lawyers decided to offer their two cents’ worth:

This commenter certainly has a point:

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Maybe the commenters should have blamed the thief instead of the victim, but I look at it this way.  

Let’s say I want to watch a football game while I’m eating lunch, so I bring a roast beef sandwich into the family room and put it on the coffee table so I can eat while and watching TV from my sofa.  But I forgot my beer, so I go back into the kitchen – leaving my roast beef sandwich sitting unguarded on my coffee table.

When my dog trots over and gobbles down the sandwich, are you really going to blame the dog – who’s just doing what comes naturally?

Or are you going to blame me for forgetting that eternal vigilance is the price of not having your roast beef sandwich gobbled down by your dog?

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Bob Dylan’s “Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)” was released in 1979 on Slow Train Coming, which was the first album he released after converting to Christianity.

In 2018, Bettye Lavette released Things Have Changed, an album consisting entirely of covers of Dylan songs – including “Do Right to Me Baby”:  

With all due respect to Dylan, Lavette’s cover is much more listenable.  Click here to listen to it.

Click below to buy the record from Amazon: