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Thread #19551   Message #628395
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
15-Jan-02 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH MY MIND...
I've been singing Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Standing On Jesus for many years, learned from a recording by the Roosevelt Brothers. Sandy & Caroline Paton tell me that they knew it as ..with my mind standing on freedom. I never heard it done that way, but it sure makes sense. The song is one of those that you just change one line, and then repeat the rest of the verse..

Woke up this morning with my mind, standing on Jesus
Woke Up this morning with my mind, standing on Jesus
Woke up this morning with my mind, standing on Jesus
Hallelu (Send down), Hallelu(my Lord), Hallelu-u-jah

change first line to:
Walking and talking with my mind, standing on Jesus
Woke up singing with my mind, standing on Jesus
Woke up praying, etc.

Jerry