Wait on the Lord

DESCRIPTION: "I wonder where Spencer gone, That used to preach up town. The church is all in mourning...." "I'm waitin' on de Lord...." "Some say John de Baptist Is nothing but a Jew." "A Baptist, Baptist is my name, And a Baptist I will die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses death
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 344, "Wait on de Lord" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 260, "(Some say that John the Baptist)" (1 short text, with the "John the Baptist" verse and a reference to Pharaoh; there is no real way to say what it is a fragment of, but it might be this)
Roud #11740
NOTES [23 words]: This is one of those all-floating-verse assemblies that can't really be identified with anything because it has so many different parts. - RBW
File: Br3344

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