Passing Through

DESCRIPTION: "I saw Adam leave that garden with an apple in his hand"; the singer asks what he'll do now. Adam replies that he is just "Passing through... Tell the people that you saw me passing through." Jesus, FDR, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young are all passing through
AUTHOR: Dick Blakeslee (source: various internet sites)
EARLIEST DATE: 1948? (Blakeslee version); 1960 (Cheney-MormonSongs version)
KEYWORDS: travel humorous
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 111-112, "Passing Through" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10850
NOTES [33 words]: This was apparently popularized by Leonard Cohen but written by Dick Blakeslee some decades before Cohen recorded it. I feel as if I've heard bluegrass versions, but I don't know where or when. - RBW
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File: ChMS111

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