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Thread #22754 Message #248540
Posted By: harpgirl
28-Jun-00 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Borrowed Land
Subject: Borrowed Land
Here the economic and social realtiies of Southern history are woven into a religious contxt: the phrase is drawn from sharecropping and/or tenantry, but in the spiritual sense akll eathly life is "borrowed" from God "Going back to Jesus" a common Protestant folk metaphor for the election of the redeemed at the Second Coming, implies full ownership of the land of eternal Zion." p. 25 Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection
Borrowed Land
We're down here livin' on borrowed land Borrowed land, borrowed land, We're down here livin' on borrowed land, I'm gwine back wid Him when He comes.
We're down here prayin on borrowed land Borrowed land, borrowed land We're down here praying on borrowed land, We're down here moanin on borrowed land borrowed land, borrowed land, We're down here moanin on borrowed land, I'm gwine back wid Him when He comes....