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Thread #2035   Message #4172644
Posted By: and e
20-May-23 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: No Hiding Place
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: No Hiding Place
"Sept. 19 [1864]. Went this morning to the domestic quarters of the hospital
to hear the colored washerwomen sing; a dozen in a row, all wearing turbans,
their black arms moving up and down, and the white foam flying, how they did sing!
A revival hymn they wailed in fine style; one verse was, --
"'An' on dat da' dar'll be no hidin' place,
An' on dat da' dar'll be no hidin' place,
An' on dat da' dar'll be no hidin' place,
De gate'll be shut, an' ye carn git in.'


Pg 76 of History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1891, where the editor quotes from a daily journal with this entry dated Sept 19, 1864.

See google books online here:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Town_of_Bedford_Middlesex/8GBAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22no%20hidin%20place%22