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Thread #2035   Message #647519
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
11-Feb-02 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: No Hiding Place
Subject: Lyr Add: NO HIDING PLACE (spiritual)
The Rocks and the Mountains also is printed, with music, in Work, J. W., American Negro Songs and Spirituals, p. 54.
A variant on No Hiding Place Down There (White, N. I.) is also in Work.

NO HIDING PLACE

Chorus:
There's no hiding place down here,
There's no hiding place down here.

Went to the rocks for to hide my face,
Rock cried out, "No hiding place,"
There's no hiding place down here.

Boatman, boatman, row one side,
Can't get to heaven 'gainst wind and tide,
There's no hiding place down here.

Sinner man, sinner man, better repent,
God's going to call you to judgment,
There's no hiding place down here.

John W. Work, 1940, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, p. 149 with music.
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