Oh, Yes!

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Oh, wait till I put on my robe." Verses: The singer looks forward to landing "on the other shore" and receiving a gold waist band and slippers and "palms of victory," a white robe and gospel shoes to "walk about heaven and carry the news"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, pp. 210-212, "Oh, Yes!" (1 text, 1 tune; pp. 186-187 in the 1874 edition)
Roud #15273
NOTES [22 words]: In Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute's verses every line is followed by "Oh yes, oh yes!" - BS
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