Lie Down Daniel Take Your Rest

DESCRIPTION: "(Lie down (Daniel/judges/accusers/mourners), take your rest) (x3) O the lion in the den cannot harm." Daniel "locked the lion's jaw," "lay down on the lion all night," "sweetest rest he ever had," "New grave every day," "Hearse keeps rolling every day"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: accusation reprieve burial death religious animal
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 312-313, "Leddown Daniel Tek Yo' Res'" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [92 words]: The description follows Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang but I do not repeat the dialect.
The verses telling Daniel's story have the same format as the others: one line repeated twice followed by "O the lion in the den cannot harm" - BS
Daniel was of course thrown into the lion's den in Daniel 6:16, and in 6:21, after he has survived, Daniel says, "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths" -- but nowhere does it say that Daniel lay down on the lion all night or that he slept, let alone that he had a good sleep. - RBW
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File: HPR312A

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