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Thread #48959 Message #3094230
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
13-Feb-11 - 05:14 AM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
A couple examples of evidently floating verse that ring similar to "South Australia"--
The article "Hymns of the Slave and the Freedman" (New England Magazine, 1899) has the song "Gwine to Jine De Band" with the line:
Haint but one thing grieves my mind
Band of angels leaves me behind
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The University of Texas Community Song Book (1918) has the song "The Old Ark's A-Movering" with the line:
Th'aint but the one thing grieves my mind
Sister's gone to Heav'n and left a me behind
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