Keep Me From Sinking Down

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Oh Lord, Oh my Lord, Oh, my good Lord, Keep me from sinking down." Verse: "I tell you what I mean to do, Keep me from sinking down, I mean to go to heaven to, Keep me from sinking down"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, App.XII, "Keep Me From Sinkin' Down" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 245 in the 1874 edition)
Work-FolkSongOfTheAmericanNegro, p. 50, "Keep Me From Sinking Down" (1 text)
Roud #11642
File: DettA245

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