Lyr. Add: NO HIDIN'-PLACE
Kentucky Negroes, 1912
1.
Dahuh's no hidin'-place daown dah-uh!
Uh went tuh de rock tuh hide muh face,
De rock said, "Back, no hidin'-place!"
Dah-uh no hidin'-place daown dah-uh!
2.
De sinnuh man gamble, en' he fell; (3x)
He wanted tuh go tuh Heb'n, but he fell tuh hell.
3.
De sinnuh man stood at de gates u' hell; (3x)
De gates flew op'n, en in he fell!

No. 46, no score; E. C. Perrow, "Songs and Rhymes From the South," parts III and IV, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 26 pp. 123-173, 1913.