I Promised the Lord

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "I promised the Lord that I would hold out (x3) If he meet me in Galilee." Verses: Singer would meet Jesus in the air and asks for new wings if the old pair fails. Singer finds a resting place in Jesus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (USSeaIsland03)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Minnie Gracie Gadson, "I Promist de Lawd" (on USSeaIsland03)
NOTES [40 words]: In Mark 16:7 (followed by Matthew 28:7), the resurrected Jesus tells the women at the tomb to tell the disciples and Peter to meet him in Galilee. This is presumably a reference to that. The story is rather different in Luke and John. - RBW
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File: RcIPrdL

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