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Down In The Valley
Traditional Spiritual and Gospel;
ARTIST: Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: early 1900s; 1956
RECORDING INFO: Down In The Valley
"Negro Spirituals" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; 1867 from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 19;
OTHER NAMES: Down In De Valley
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Down In The Valley" is a traditional spiritual from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 19; "Negro Spirituals" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; 1867 (Ed. Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett)
Down In The Valley- Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
In the next, the conflict is at its height, and the lurid imagery of the Apocalypse is brought to bear. This book, with the books of Moses, constituted their Bible; all that lay between, even the narratives of the life of Jesus, they hardly cared to read or to hear.
XII. DOWN IN THE VALLEY
We'll run and never tire,
We'll run and never tire.
We'll run and never tire,
Jesus set poor sinners free.
Way down in de valley,
Who will rise and go with me
You've heern talk of Jesus,
Who set poor sinners free.
De lighten' and de flashing
De lightnin' and de flashin',
De lightnin' and de flashin',
Jesus set poor sinners free.
I can't stand de fire,
I can't stand de fire,
I can't stand de fire,
Jesus set poor sinners free,
De green trees a-flamin',
De green trees a-flamin',
De green trees a-flamin',
Jesus set poor sinners free,
Way down in de valley,
Who will rise and go with me
You've heern talk of Jesus
Who set poor sinners free.
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