I Look Down The Road

DESCRIPTION: Verses are four lines: a non-rhyming couplet repeated. For example, "(I looked down the road and the road so lonesome, Lord I've got to walk down that lonesome road)(x2)." See notes for other examples.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 284-285, "I Look Down duh Road" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [73 words]: The description follows Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang but I do not repeat the dialect.
Verses include "And I looked in the grave and the grave is so watery, Lord I've got to lie in that watery grave"; "And I looked upon the mountain and the mountain is so high, Lord I've got to climb that mountain by myself"; "And all I want to know is that my sins are forgiven, And all I want to know is that my soul is set free." - BS
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File: HPR284A

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