Our Singing Country
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2 Hear a great talk of the Judgment Day, Got no time to projick away:
Away by and by, without a doubt,
Jehovah will order His angels out.
Clean out the world and leave no sin.
aTell me, please, where have you been?" {Chorus.)
3 Hear big talk of the gospel train,
"You want to gtt on it?" "Yes, that's my aim."
Stand at the station and patiently wait.
The train is coming and it's never late.
So long coming that it worried my mind,
Thought it waVt coming, but was just on time. (Chorus.) |
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CHOOSE YOU A SEAT >N> SET DOWN
/ to f% No. 1317. Dock Reed, Henry Reed, Vera Hall, Livingston, Ala., 1937.
An ex-slave, an old Negro woman, talked to us of her life and her songs:
al been drug about and fut through the shackles, till I done forgot some my children's names. My husband died and left me with nine children, and none of }em could full the others out of the fire iff en they fell in. I had mo'n that, but some come here dead and some didn't. Dey ain't a graveyard in this here settlement where I ain't got children buried} and I got children dead in Birmingham and Bessemer.
"I mos' blind now and I can't hear good and I ain't never read no verse in no Bible in my life} 'cause I can't read. I sets 'cross the road here from the church and can't ?o 'cause I'm crhple and blin\ but I hear 'em singin'" |
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