Come And Go With Me

DESCRIPTION: "(If you want to get to heaven just come and go with me) (x3), Hallelujah Amen." Other first lines include "Stop, listen, hear what Jesus says," "Jesus told the lame man 'Take up your bed and walk,'" "Jesus told the blind man, 'Open your eyes and see.'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 230-231, "Come En Go Wid Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sanders-SingHighSingLow, pp. 7-8, "Come En Go Wid Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [105 words]: The description follows Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang but I do not repeat the dialect. - BS
Jesus's telling the lame man to take up his bed and walk is in John 5:1-9 -- a controversial set of verses, because the manuscripts disagree dramatically about the form (and even the inclusion) of 5:3b-4; the best manuscripts omit both verses, but they are in the King James Bible. Plus the word here rendered "bed," Greek κραββατος, krabbatos, was considered vulgar. There are several mentions of Jesus curing the blind, none of which is exactly parallel to what is said here; I suspect the reference is collective. - RBW
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