You Got To Reap In the Harvest What You Sow

DESCRIPTION: "John say you got to reap in the harvest what you sow (x2), If you sow it in the rain, you got to reap it just the same You got to reap in the harvest what you sow"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands)
KEYWORDS: farming harvest Bible nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands, p. 225, "You Got To Reap In the Harvest What You Sow" (1 text)
NOTES [100 words]: The current description is based on the Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands text. Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands writes that this was one of "the songs that were used for planting rice, and getting it ready to eat."
John 4:35-37 is a metaphor on sowing and reaping the harvest: "And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together" (King James). - BS
Compare also Hosea 8:7, about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind, and in Hosea 10:12, a reference to sowing and harvesting good things. - RBW
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