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Thread #39212   Message #555512
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
21-Sep-01 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Hard Trials
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: HARD TRIALS
Fenner (1874) has still a different variant in the North Carolina-Armstrong-Hampton site:
Cho:
De fox hab hole in de groun'
An' de bird hab nest in de air,
But we, poor sinners, hab none.
Now ain't dat hard trials, great tribulation,
Ain't dat hard trials, I'm bound to leabe dis worl'.
1. Baptist, Baptist is my name
Baptist 'til I die,
I'll be baptize in de Baptist name,
An' I'll lib on the Baptist side.
2. Methodist, Methodist is my name, etc.
3. Presbyterian, Presbyterian is my name, etc.
4. You may go dis-a way, You may go dat-a way,
You may go from do' to do',
But ef you habn't got de grace ob God in your heart,
De Debil will get you sho'
5. Now while we are marchin' along dis dreadful road,
You had better stop your different names,
An' ebry t'ing have a hiding place,
But we, poor sinners, have none.

Most unusual in the call for unity among the varieties of faith. I didn't check the sheet music of the American Memory site, given by Sakurai, against that given with this version, but the verse structure seems to call for some variance here too. Verses 1-3 also live on in Appalachian-Southern white song. Which came first?