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Thread #40272 Message #575211
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
18-Oct-01 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Somebody's Buried in the Graveyard
Subject: Somebody's Buried in the Graveyard
Negro spiritual? Work says: "Death had a very prominent place in the mind and songs of the slave." He sang "of death and the glories of Heaven where he would receive those things that were denied him." From J. W. Work, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, 1940, p. 127.
SOMEBODY'S BURIED IN THE GRAVEYARD
Somebody's buried in the graveyard,
Somebody's buried in the sea,
Going to get up in the morning a shouting,
Going to join jubilee.
1. Although you see me coming along so,
To the promised land I'm bound to go.
2. I have some friends before me gone,
By the grace of God I'll follow on.
3. Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down,
But still my soul is heavenly bound.
@religion @spiritual