Lyr Req: Uncle Bob's Prayer

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Sep 08 - 09:15 PM

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but this book:

Gillis, William R. Gold Rush Days with Mark Twain. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1930.

--has a chapter titled "How Uncle Bob's Prayer Brought the Rain"

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: Tinker
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 05:40 PM

Whiz Bang reprints
are now available. I wonder if it is on the back of this one ?

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 04:42 PM

I know it's not Uncle Dave's Grace by the Berrymans, but it seemed a good opportunity to refresh Kat's request and to call attention to a great Berryman song. If you start work on it now, you can memorize it in plenty of time for Thanksgiving...
Anyboy have an idea about "Uncle Bob's Prayer"?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 07:11 PM

I think dad and I both forgot about this one. Thanks for refreshing it, Jim! I am fairly certain that is not the one dad is looking for, but I'll ask.

Thanks, again

kat

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 06:11 PM

There's a song called UNCLE TOM'S PRAYER, sung by Cordell Reagon, on a 2-CD set called "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966," Smithsonian Folkways #40084, 1997. The following words come from a sound sample at Barnes & Noble:

Oh, I am no Uncle Tom, Lord. That's what the people say.
But I ain't no Uncle Tom, Lord. I'm just a little afraid.
Oh, help me, Lord, to stand up and be a man,
And to fight segregation as long as I can.

Well, what about my job, Lord? What shall I do?
You know if I join that line, Lord,...

This is a long shot, but I know a lot of civil rights songs were based on older songs, so MAYBE there is a connection.

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: JIMI JAM
Date: 08 May 99 - 12:47 AM

sorry i have no location right now

Subject: RE: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 10:56 AM

refresh? Just in case someone didn't see this. Thanks

Subject: Another request from Dad:Uncle Bob's Prayer
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 12:43 AM

Hi, Just talked to dad tonight. He said, "Say, as some of those Mudcatters if any of them know the words to Uncle Bob's Prayer. It used to be printed on the back of "Whiz Bang", along about in the 1920's or so."

Then he recited a few of the words, which I didn't get down, but sticks in my mind about being a pretty fair minded person.

I searched the DT and Lester Levy, but didn't get anything. Anybody?

Thanks!

katlaughing