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Thread #23536   Message #652703
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
18-Feb-02 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Give Me Freedom
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Give Me Freedom
In Seward, Negro Spirituals, or The Songs of the Jubilee Singers; also in Johnson, The Book of American Negro Spirituals I, there is a verse not posted by Joe Offer.

I heard the mourner say,
I heard the mourner say,
Give me Jesus, give me Jesus, Give me Jesus,
You may have all this world, give me Jesus.