621. O Lord, Won't You Come by Here?

621

O Lord. Won't You Come by Here?

The refrain, "Oh Lord, won't you come by here," is shared with  a song having the same title in Madelyn Sheppard, Eight Selected  Spirituals (New York, 1926), pp. 18-20.

From Julian P. Boyd, as collected from Minnie Lee, a pupil of the school  at Alliance, Pamlico county; undated, but c. 1927-28. "Negro fragment." The repetition indicated in stanza 1 continues through stanzas  2 and 3.

1. Somebody's sick; Lord, come by here.
Somebody's sick; Lord, come by here.
Somebody's sick; Lord, come by here.
O Lord, won't you come by here!

2 Somebody's dying; Lord, come by here.

3 Somebody's in trouble; Lord, come liy here.