We're All Here (Do Thyself No Harm)

DESCRIPTION: "When Paul and Silas were in jail, Do thyself no harm, When Paul and Silas were in jail, Do thyself.... We're all here, we're all here, Do thyself no harm...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore, pp. 251-252, "We're All Here"
Roud #6703
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "All Night Long (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES [48 words]: This has so many floating lines that I'm not even going to try to untangle them. Roud, probably on the bases of the first line, links this with "All Night Long (I)." But the choruses are different enough that I split them.
Paul and Silas's stay in prison is related in Acts 16:19-40. - RBW
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