Diamonds in the Rough

DESCRIPTION: "While walking out one evening," the singer hears the "Bethlehem Mission Band" and gives "my heart to Jesus." He lists the perfectly reasonable things he's now too self-righteous to do, and hopes the other "diamonds in the rough'" will do the same
AUTHOR: C. W. Byron (source: Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
KEYWORDS: music nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley 22, "Diamonds in the Rough" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13153
RECORDINGS:
The Carter Family, "Diamonds in the Rough" (Victor V-40150)
Uncle Dave Macon, "Diamonds in the Rough" (Brunswick 113)
NOTES [54 words]: We need a keyword "excessive self-righteousness," or something. How anyone can believe this sort of thing would actually change someone's mind is beyond me. But obviously some did.
C. W. Byron was a minister and a minor hymn-writer; his most-reprinted song seems to have been "When lost in sin I came to Christ my Savior." - RBW
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File: ABLT022

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