Lyr Add: Borrowed Land

Subject: Borrowed Land
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Jun 00 - 12:14 PM

Here the economic and social realtiies of Southern history are woven into a religious contxt: the phrase is drawn from sharecropping and/or tenantry, but in the spiritual sense akll eathly life is "borrowed" from God "Going back to Jesus" a common Protestant folk metaphor for the election of the redeemed at the Second Coming, implies full ownership of the land of eternal Zion." p. 25 Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection

Borrowed Land

We're down here livin' on borrowed land
Borrowed land, borrowed land,
We're down here livin' on borrowed land,
I'm gwine back wid Him when He comes.

We're down here prayin on borrowed land
Borrowed land, borrowed land
We're down here praying on borrowed land,
We're down here moanin on borrowed land
borrowed land, borrowed land,
We're down here moanin on borrowed land,
I'm gwine back wid Him when He comes....


Freedom rules, as Mbo would say!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Borrowed Land
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Jun 00 - 12:23 PM

mania is ruining my spelling, Rick! I'll fix later...