LORD, I'M GONNA TELL THE NEWS

Lord, I'm gonna walk eround in Jordan en tell the news (twice)
If my mother ask for me,
Tell her death have summoned me,
Lord, I'm gonna walk eround in Jordan en tell the news.

Lord, I'm gonna walk eround in Jordan en tell the news (twice)
If my father ask for me,
Tell him death have summoned me,
Lord, I'm gonna walk eround in Jordan en tell the news.

(If my sister, etc., ask for me ---)

A stanza "Death have set me free" may be added. The song is sung "in the drawn-out, wailing manner of some Sacred Harp."
Olivia and Jack Solomon, 1991, Honey in the Rock, p. 3, no music. The Ruby Pickins Tartt Collection.
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