Lyr Add: Will You March Down

Subject: WILL YOU MARCH DOWN
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 12:38 AM

WILL YOU MARCH DOWN

Cho.
Elder, will you march down,
Elder, will you march down,
Elder will you march down to *Jerdan?
Hallelu!

Give me the horn that you told me to blow,
Give me 'ligion and you told me to grow.
Cho.
Give me the horn that you told me to blow,
Blow them sinners from Hell's dark do'.
Cho.
Religion is something like a bloomin' rose,
None can tell it but jes' them that know.
Cho.
Well, thank God A'mighty done fixed it so,
That the rich and the po' both they must go.
Cho.
Religion is something that money can't buy,
Thank God A'mighty that he made it so.
Cho.

*Jordan pronounced "Jerdan" in the South. "Down" in chorus sometimes "on."
James (Iron Head) Baker, Ramsey State Farm, Otey, Texas. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Click on Links at top of page and go to Lomax Collection for partial recording and notes.
@religion @gospel @spiritual

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WILL YOU MARCH DOWN
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Feb 02 - 05:12 PM

The above now indexed in the African-American Spirituals Permathread. If more lyrics (with titles other than the above) are added in this thread, please help us index them by posting the song title and thread URL to the Permathread. Thanks.

~Susan