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Thread #26108 Message #3502118
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Apr-13 - 02:50 AM
Thread Name: Origin: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Subject: ADD Version: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
So, here's a 1927 version, which may or may not be the earliest version known.
HE GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND
He got the whole world in his hand
He got the whole world in his hand
He got the whole world in his hand
He got the whole world in his hand
He got you an' I in his hand, etc.
He got the preachers too in his hand, etc.
He got the sinners too in his hand, etc.
Arthur Huff Fauset, "Negro Folk Tales from the South," in the Journal of American Folklore, New York, NY, July-Sept 1927, p. 294, with a note that the spiritual was heard near Tuskegee, Alabama.
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