Tell Jesus

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Tell Jesus, done done all I can (x3), I can't do no more". Verses: "Went up on the mountain, Didn't go to stay, When my soul got happy, Then I stayed all day" and other floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, p. 77, "Tell Jesus" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 129 in the 1901 edition)
Roud #15221
File: Dett077

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