Windstorm and Rain

DESCRIPTION: "In the last day of September, in the year nineteen nine, God almighty rose in the weather And that troubles everybody's mind." The song the storm, concluding, "God, he is in the windstorm and rain And everybody ought to mind."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963
KEYWORDS: storm religious
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Courlander-NegroFolkMusic, p. 76, (no title) (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Harold Courlander, _A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore_, Crown Publishers, 1976, p. 341, "(no title)" (1 text)
NOTES [14 words]: Reportedly based on a storm which struck Terrebone Parish in Louisiana in 1909. - RBW
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File: CNFM076A

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