Promised Land

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "(I will meet you in the Promised Land) (x2) (I will meet you) (x3) Meet you, Meet you, I will meet you in the Promised Land." Singer has a "mansion up on high Not made by hand" and a "(sister/brother) in the new graveyard That outshines the sun"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hutson/Pinckney/Rutledge-SomeSongsTheNegroSang, pp. 322-323, "Primus Lan'" (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: HPR322P

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