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Thread #39216 Message #1033080
Posted By: Roger the Skiffler
10-Oct-03 - 09:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Know the Lord's Laid His Hands On Me
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Know the Lord's Laid His Hands On Me
OK, Susan, here's the thing: After I logged off I went for my morning walk and had the darn tune in my head the whole way! Just didn't sound like the Saddlemen version,though (theirs had been salvaged from a poor quality demo tape). When I got back I checked and found a better version on a Vipers CD (the Vipers were a 1950s skifle grtoup in the UK, Lonnie's main rivals at the time). Both versions used generic "gospel" verses. Vipers' version (significant lines only) : Verse 1: One of these mornings around 12 o'clock ------------------------------------ This old world's gonna reel and rock
Verse 2: See those children dressed in white --------------------------------- They must be the children of the Israelites
Verse 3: See those children dressed in black ----------------------------------- They must be the hypocrites a-turnin' back
Verse 4: See those children dressed in red --------------------------------- They must be the children that Moses led.
Saddlemen version has verses one and two as above (though harder to decipher!)and a different third (and final) verse:
Listen you sinners to what I say ------------------------------- The Lord is a-comin' on Judgement Day.
PS Just read in a novel based in Texas that "Methodists are Dancin' Baptists and Baptists are Methodists that can't read". Is that a generally held opinion in the US?!! RtS (Raised Methodist, lapsed Quaker, devout Skiffler, married to a pillar of the Church of England)