Flood Comes Creeping

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "(Do my Lord)(3x) (Don't she rain) (x3)." When the flood comes to Noah's door God tells Noah to take the children and go. The children came tapping on the telegraph wire. Singer has a sister in the Promised Land.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: flood nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 314-315, "Flood Come uh-Creepin'" (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: HPR314F

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