I Never Will Turn Back Any More

DESCRIPTION: "When I was a boy I had a little mule That I always rode to Sunday School. Lord, I never will turn back any more." Humorous stanzas of religious life: The mule "got in an awful way"; the singer meets Satan in a meadow or runs into a hornet's nest
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious humorous floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 345, "I Never Will Turn Back Any More" (1 text)
Roud #11739
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Chased Old Satan Through the Door" (floating verses)
NOTES [31 words]: This reads like a humorous take on a church hymn; several of the verses float. It looks a lot like "Chased Old Satan Through the Door," but that seems to be built on a different hymn. - RBW
File: Br3345

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