To Joel and Q, great work both.

Q's suggestion that both "Drinkin' Gou'd" fragments may belong to a lost spiritual is quite brilliant. It sensibly links both - which may be what Parks intended to do, though with an unrestrained Romantic imagination. Romantics sometimes found it easy to fool themselves.

A fuller text could conceivably be in the Archives at the Library of Congress. Few besides the Lomaxes were situated to publicize such a spiritual, if it existed.