King Oh King

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "King O King Died for me, Heaven was made for the first and last, No man looks like me." Second and fourth line of each verse is "No man looks like me." First and third lines are a rhyming couplet; see Notes for examples.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 260-261, "King Oh King" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "All My Trials" ("If Religion" verse) and references there
NOTES [65 words]: The description follows Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang but I do not repeat the dialect.
Verse couplets include "If religion was something that money could buy, The rich would live and the poor would die." "Some come crippled and some come lame, Some come walking in Jesus's name." "It rained forty days and it rained forty nights, It makes your garment fit you right." - BS
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File: HPR260A

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