I'll Bid You Farewell

DESCRIPTION: "My brethren and sistern I'll bid you farewell, I'm sorry to leave you, I love you so well. All ye that love Jesus, the cross you must bear." The song describes Jesus's sufferings on the cross. All will meet in the resurrection
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Roberts/Agey-InThePine)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus separation death
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Roberts/Agey-InThePine #113, "I'll Bid You Farewell" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [85 words]: I suspect that, if I could figure out all the corruption sin the text ("sistern"? -- this is an acceptable plural in some dialects, going back to Middle English, but no one would write it that way!), this would prove to be familiar. But repeated searches at hymnary.org, using all the variations I could think of, produced nothing. I wonder, given the number of unique hymns in Roberts/Agey-InThePine, if there wasn't someone in that part of Kentucky churning out hymns that never spread outside the area. - RBW
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File: RAInP113

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