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Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
04-Jul-02 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: Mary don't you weep--meaning
Subject: RE: Mary don't you weep--meaning
Another Mary weep spiritual, this time in "All the Friend I Had Dead and Gone":

Lyr. Add: ALL DE FRIEND I HAD DEAD EN GONE

All the friend I had, (3 times)
Dead en gone.

Gone to the graveyard (twice)
All de friend I had,
Dead en gone.

Weepin' Mary, weep no longer,
All de friend I had,
Dead en gone.

My poor mother died er shoutin',
All de friend I had,
Dead en gone.

From Olivia and Jack Solomon, 1991, "Honey in the Rock," p. 41.
Weepin' Mary is equated with Mary Magdalene weeping at the tomb of Christ by the authors.
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