Mary and Martha

DESCRIPTION: "Mary and Martha just gone along (x3), To ring them charming bells." "Crying, free grace and dying love, To ring them...." "Oh! way over Jordan...." "The preacher and the elder just gone along...." "My father and mother's just gone along...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1887 (College Songs)
KEYWORDS: religious love
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd, #129, "Mary and Martha" (1 text)
SongsOfManyNations, "Mary and Martha" (1 text, 1 tune) (CC edition, p. 55)
ADDITIONAL: Henry Randall Waite, _College Songs: A Collection of New and Popular Songs of the American Colleges_, new and enlarged edition, Oliver Ditson & Co., 1887, p. 61, "Mary and Martha" (1 text, 1 tune) (p. 128 in the 1876 edition)
ST ColS061 (Full)
Roud #4989
File: ColS061

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