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Thread #39212   Message #555398
Posted By: masato sakurai
20-Sep-01 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Hard Trials
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: HARD TRIALS
H.T. Burleigh's arrangement (1909)is in American Memory, Library of Congress. Just put in "hard trials" in the search box. The lyrics are (stanzaic divisions I've made might be incorrect):

Been a-lis'nin' all de night long,
Been a-lis'nin' all de day,
Been a-lis'nin' all de night long,
For to hear some sinner pray.

Now ain't dem hard trials, great tribulation?
Ain't dem hard trails?
I'm boun' to leab dis lan'

O, de foxes dey hab holes in de groun',
An' de birds hab nests in de air,
An' ev'ry thing has a hidin' place,
But us po' sinners ain't got nowhere.

Now ain't dem hard trials, great tribulation?
Ain't dem hard trails?
I'm boun' to leab dis lan'

O, Methodis' is my name, Methodis' till I die,
I've been receiv'd in de Methodis' church,
But I'll die on de 'Picopal side.

Now ain't dem hard trials, great tribulation?
Ain't dem hard trails?
I'm boun' to leab dis lan'

You may go dis-away, You may go dat-away,
You may go fum do' to do;
But if yo' ain't got de good Lord, in-a yo' soul
Why de debbil's gwine to git you sho,

Now ain't dem hard trials great tribulation?
Ain't dem hard trials?
I'm boun' to leab dis lan'.

Masato