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iancarterb Lyr Req/Add: He Goes to Church on Sunday (6) Lyr Req: He Goes to Church on Sunday 12 Aug 07

This song is from an Edison cylinder transcribed and sung at my first hearing by one Peter Fletcher, then a math grad student at Duke in 1963 or '64. I remember the chorus from singing it with Peter many times but zero verses, and I suppose that means I don't know the melodic line for the verses either. Nothing shows up in Digitrad or any old Mudcat threads. The chorus as I remember it is:
    He goes to church on Sunday,
    He passes 'round the contribution box,
    But catch him in the office on a Monday,
    He is cunning and as clever as a fox,
    On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
    He is robbing everybody that he can,
    But he goes to church on Sunday,
    So they say that he's an honest man.
Any help out there?

Carter Bannerman

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