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Thread #43742 Message #2537777
Posted By: GUEST,F. Bacon
11-Jan-09 - 09:01 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rock-a My Soul / Rock My Soul
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock-a My Soul
I can't remember where I could have learned it, but I am guessing it was in a public elementary school before 1973. Were there a set of music books called "It's Music 1-6"?
O rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham, rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham, rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham.... O rocka my soul.
So high, you can't get over it, so low, you can't get under it, so wide you can't get around it... You must go in at the door.
I seem to recall the girls sang the "high" verse while the boys sang the "low" one. I don't recall whether anyone ever did the motions that would go with it, such as holding the hand high, low, then both held wide apart for the "wide" part of the song.