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Thread #39199   Message #709919
Posted By: masato sakurai
13-May-02 - 01:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Death Is Going to Lay His Cold Icy Hands
Subject: Lyr Add: COLD, ICY HAND
The "rare version" Dicho posted had been recorded as "Cold, Icy Hand" (not ... Hands) in William E. Barton, "Old Plantation Hymns" (New England Magazine, December 1898, reprinted in Bernard Katz, The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in The United States, Arno/The New York Times, 1969, p. 81; with substantially the same music).

COLD, ICY HAND

1.
O sinner! Sinner! you better pray!
Death goner lay his cold, icy hand on me!
Or your soul be lost at de jedgment day!
Death goner lay his cold, icy hand on me!

REFRAIN:
Cryin', O Lord! Cryin' O my Lord! Cryin', O Lord,
Death goner lay his cold, icy hand on me!

2.
O, sinner, you be careful how you walk on de cross,--
Or your foot may slip an' you' soul be los'.

~Masato