Church of God, The

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "The church of God that sounds so sweet, The church, the church of God (x2), that sounds so sweet." Verses: "Jesus told you once before Go in peace and sin no more" and other floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (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. 80, "De Church of God" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 199 in the 1874 edition)
Roud #15261
NOTES [35 words]: "Go in peace and sin no more" is probably an allusion to John 8:11 (a text not an original part of the Gospel of John, but you can't tell that from the King James Bible), although it is not a direct quote. - RBW
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File: Dett080

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