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Dis Is Er Mean Old World
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: Probably 1800s; Early 1900s
RECORDING INFO: Dis Is Er Mean Old World- Tartt Collection
Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs
OTHER NAMES: "Dis Is Er Mean Old World To Live In All by Yourself"
RELATED TO: "Mean Old World"
SOURCES: Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs
NOTES: "Dis Is Er Mean Old World" or "This Is A Mean Old World" is a spiritual from The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs and it appears in Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs by Olivia Solomon.
"Dis Is Er Mean Old World" is related to the following blues songs:
Mean Old World- Sam Cooke
This is a mean old world to live in all by yourself
This is a mean old world to live in all by yourself
This is a mean world to be alone without someone to call your own
This is a mean old world to live in all by yourself
Mean Old World- Little Walter (Walter Jacobs)/Eric Clapton
This is a mean old world, try and live it by yourself.
This is a mean old world, try and live it by yourself.
Can't get the one you love, have to use somebody else.
I've got the blues, gonna pack my things and go.
I've got the blues, gonna pack my things and go.
Guess you don't love me, babe, loving mister so-and-so.
Sometimes I wonder why can your love be so cold?
Sometimes I wonder why can your love be so cold?
I guess you don't love me, gonna pack my things and go.
Dis Is Er Mean Old World- Tartt Collection
Dis is er mean old world to try and live in
To try and stay in until you die.
Dis is er mean old world to try and live in
To try and stay in until you die.
*Thout a sister, Thout a brother
Thout a father, Lord, Thout a mother
Dis is er mean old world to try and live in
To try and stay in until you die.
You have to moan sometime to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
You have to moan sometime to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
Ain't got no sister, Ain't got no brother
Ain't got no father, Lord, Ain't got no mother
You have to moan sometime to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
You have to pray so hard to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
You have to pray so hard to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
Thout a sister, Thout a brother
Thout a father, Lord, Thout a mother
You have to pray so hard to try and live here
To try and stay here until you die.
*without
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