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Thread #57161   Message #897686
Posted By: Charley Noble
24-Feb-03 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: O, de Lord tol' Nory
Subject: Lyr Req: O, de Lord tol' Nory
This gospel song fragment is clearly part of a longer song aboat Noah and his adventures with his Ark. My mother remembers this fragment from her black nursemaid Ella Madison from the 1920's. Ella had worked as a singer with one of the Minstrel bands that toured Europe in the early 1900's, and had also sung in an early production of Porgey and Bess. Here's what we have for a fragment:

O, de Lord tol' Nory

O, de Lord tol' Nory,
O, de Lord tol' Nory,
O, de Lord tol' Nory,
Hist de windo, let the dove come in -
O, de debil's mad and I am glad -
Hist de windo, let the dove come in!

Probably not an easy one to search for, but there are some really cleaver people here at Mudcat.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble