In the Morning (I)

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Ride on (x3), King Emanuel, Don't you want to go to heaven in the morning." Verses: "Some of these mornings bright and fair, Take my flight right through the air." "You say your aiming for the skies, Why don't you stop telling lies."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: Bible nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, p. 194, "Ride On" (1 text, 1 tune; pp. 120-121 in the 1901 edition)
ADDITIONAL: Howard W. Odum, Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes, (reprint from American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, July 1909, Vol.3 pp. 265-365 "Digitized by Internet Archive")), p. 66, "In the Morning" (1 text)
Roud #15271
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "King Emanuel (II)" (King Emanuel theme) and notes there
NOTES [65 words]: In Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute's verses every alternate line is "Don't you want to go to heaven in the morning."
The description follows Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute. Odum's chorus is "Won't you ride on Jesus, Ride on Jesus, ride on crowning King, For I want to go to heaven in the morning." - BS
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File: Dett194

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