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Thread #41142   Message #630990
Posted By: masato sakurai
19-Jan-02 - 01:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Drinkin' Wine
Subject: Lyr Add: DRINKIN' OF THE WINE
DRINKIN' OF THE WINE

If my mother ask you for me, tell her I gone to Gallerlee,
I ought to a been there four thousand years ago,
To drinking of the wine.

Drinkin' of the wine, drinkin' of the wine,
Drinkin' of the wine, drinkin' of the wine.
Christ was there four thousand years ago,
Drinkin' of the wine.

You may mourn, sinner, mourn, the Lord help you to mourn;
Christ was there four thousand years ago,
Drinkin' of the wine.

From: Odum and Johnson, The Negro and His Songs (1925; 1968, p. 136)

~Masato