I'm Going to Tell It

DESCRIPTION: "I'm going to tell it everywhere I go (x3), How Jesus bless' my soul." "One morning I was walking along, Jesus bless my soul, I heard a voice and saw no one, Jesus, bless...." "I went in the alley, didn't go to stay... My soul got happy I stayed all day"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus travel nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore, pp. 252-253, "I'm Going to Tell It" (1 text)
Roud #18173
NOTES [56 words]: The reference to "hearing a voice and seeing no one" is probably an allusion to the conversion of Saul: Acts 9:3-4 say that Saul saw a light and heard a voice; 9:7 says they "heard the voice but saw no one." Either it's that, or the singer had schizophrenia, the prototypical symptom of which is hearing voices without seeing a source. - RBW
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