Lyr. Add: LORD, WON'T YOU COME BY HERE

1
Oh, Lord, won't you come by here
Lord, won't you come by here
Oh. Lord, won't you come by here
Lord, won't you come by here
Oh Lord, won't you come by here
Lord, won't you come by here.
2
Now Lord, hit's er needy time
Now Lord, hit's a needy time
Oh, Lord, hit's a needy time
Now, Lord, hit's a needy time (3x)
3
Lord, I'm er motherless child (2x)
Oh, Lord, I'm er motherless child
Lord, I'm er motherless child (3x)
4
Lord, won't you hear me cry (2x)
Oh, Lord, won't you hear me cry
Lord, won't you hear me cry (3x)
5
Lord, I'm goin' down in your name (2x)
Oh, Lord, I'm goin' down in your name
Lord, I'm goin' down in your name.

"Come by here" is a Southern idiom for transportation and visiting, some intrusion into the pattern of daily routine, as in "The train doesn't come by here."
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"Oral-musical qualities of the pulpit cadence dominate this artistically superior and moving prayer of the desolate."
Notes with the hymn.
No. 27. 1984, O. and J. Solomon, Honey in the Rock, Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumpter County, Alabama, Mercer University Press.
Tartt MSS., Alabama Archives, collection completed by 1937.

Outside of the pulpit, the first and second verses continue in the gospel song, "Needed Time" (variously titled).