Sinner What Are You Doing Down There

DESCRIPTION: "(Sinner, what are you doing down there?) (3x) Oooh, my Lord." First lines include "Doing my Master's work," "Haul in the plank and let us go," "This old world ain't my home," "Walking on the borrowed land," "Never miss my mother till she's gone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 238-239, "Sinnuh W'ah Yuh Doin' Down Dere" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [18 words]: The description follows Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang but I do not repeat the dialect. - BS
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File: HPR238A

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