Lyr Add: Trouble Is Hard

Subject: Lyr Add: TROUBLE IS HARD
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 12:31 AM

TROUBLE IS HARD

Cho.
My trouble is hard, so hard, (3 times)
God, I jes' cain't believe my trouble is hard.

Well, down by the graveyard I'm goin' to walk,
Me an' God Almighty goin' to have a little talk,
Two white horses side by side,
Me and God Almighty goin' to take a ride.
Cho.
Oh, stop, young man, I got somethin' to say,
You are a-sinnin', why don't you pray?
Sinnin' in vain an' sinnin' 'gainst God
Who has the power to slay us all.
Cho.
God called Moses on the mountain top,
Set the laws in Moses' heart,
Placed the commandments in his mind,
Go, Moses, don't you leave my lamb behind.
Cho.
A is for Adam, he was a man,
He's placed in the garden at God's command,
Adam was the father of the human race,
He violated the law and God drove him from his place.
Cho.
Well, Adam went away, didn't stay long,
Before God sent him to save his corn,
He overtook Adam and caught him by his mind,
The power reached him just in time.
Cho.
Go down, angels, an' consume the flood,
Blow out the sun an' turn the moon to blood,
Come back, angels, an' bolt the door,
The time has been won't be no more.
Cho.

Sung by Gussie Slater and Clifford Reed, Florida State Prison, Raiford, FL. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.
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Subject: Lyr Add: MY TROUBLE IS HARD
From: masato sakurai
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 10:58 PM

MY TROUBLE IS HARD

I know a man that was here before Christ,
His name was Adam and Eve was his wife.
I'll tell you how this man lived a rugged life,
Just by taking this woman's advice.

(Chorus)
  My trouble is hard, oh, yes!
  My trouble is hard, oh, yes!
  My trouble is hard, oh, yes!
  Yes, indeed, my trouble is hard.

Whilst you are sitting on your seat,
Let me tell you something that is sweet.
When all God's people in glory meet,
They will slip and slide the golden street.

Stop, young man, I've something to say;
You know you're sinful and why don't you pray?
You're sinning against a sin-venged God,
Who has power to slay us all.

O Lord, ain't it a pity--ain't it a shame--
To see how my Lord and Saviour was slain?
I hate to call the murderer's name,
I know they are dead but left the slain.

Read the Scripture and be content,
You are bound to know what Jesus meant.
John was here before his advent;
Stood in the wilderness and cried "Repent."

Christ called his apostles two by two,
He particularly told them what to do:
"Preach my gospel as I command you,
And I'll be with you all the way through."

Just let me tell you what David done,
Old man Jesse's youngest son:
He slayed Goliath that mighty one,
Ole Saul pursued him but he had to run.

Ole Saul pursued poor David's life--
It's a mighty good thing he had a wife;
They went to his house and did surround,
And she took a rope and let him down.

God called Jonah in a poweful way;
He told old Jonah just what to say;
"Tell them people if they don't pray,
I'll destroy the city of Nineveh."

Just let me tell you how this world is fixed:
Satan has got it so full of tricks,
Ypu can go from place to place,
Everbody's runnin' down the colored race.

(From: Odum and Johnson, The Negro and His Songs, 1925; Negro Universities Press, 1968, pp. 130-131)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TROUBLE IS HARD
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 11:36 PM

Good addition! Slip and slide on the golden street- do they have ice storms in heaven too?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TROUBLE IS HARD
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Feb 02 - 04:56 PM

Slip and slide, dance?

Slip and slide, play?

Slip and slide, gold is shiny and slick?

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