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Thread #33227   Message #448664
Posted By: Stewie
24-Apr-01 - 09:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fall on My Knees + Papa's on the Housetop
Subject: ADD: Fall on my Knees
Well done, Joe! Like you, I had it sitting on the shelf all along. I used to have all this stuff on a database until a computer meltdown a couple of years ago. The Stecher/Brislin version is sufficiently different to post for comparison:

FALL ON MY KNEES
(Traditional)

I'll fall on my knees and pray to you
Stay a while with me
Stay a while with me

I'm going down the line, where the never shines
Gonna skid on that cold ice and snow
Gonna skid on that cold ice and snow

My suitcase is packed, am never comin' back
Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone, gone
Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone

You told me one, you told me two,
you told me ten thousand lies
you told me ten thousand lies

You told me more lies than the stars in the sky
You'll never get to heaven when you die
You'll never get to heaven when you die

Poor girl look down that long, lonesome road
Hang down your head and cry, cry
Hang down your head and cry

I'll follow my sheep and feed my little lambs
Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone, I am
Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone

I'll fall on my knees and pray to you
Stay a while with me
Stay a while with me

Source: Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin 'Stay Awhile' Rounder CD 0334. They give their source as Fred Cockerham and Tommy Jarrell.