There's a Little Wheel a-Turning

DESCRIPTION: "There's a little wheel a-turning in my heart, In my hear, yes, Lord, in my heart... O, for you, yes, Lord, for you." Remaining lines are variations on this theme
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, p. 168, "Dere's a Little Wheel a-Turnin' in My Heart" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 100 in the 1901 edition)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 641, "There's a Little Wheel a-Turning" (1 short text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 641, "There's a Little Wheel a-Turning" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 274-275, "Uh Leetle W'eel uh Tu'nnin' Een Muh Haa't" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Anne Hobson, _In Old Alabama_, (New York:Doubleday Page & Co, 1903 ("Digitized by Google"), pp. 188-191, "In My Heart" (1 text)
Roud #11936
File: Br3641

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