I Won't Turn Back

DESCRIPTION: The chorus is one call line repeated three times with a tag line. The response to the call is "I won't turn back." The tag line is "To make my Leader ashamed (?)". Call lines are "Oh no, no," 'I'll sing/pray/march right on." There is a verse.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2017 (McIntoshShouters-SpiritualsShouts)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Freddie Palmer, Brenton Jordan and The McIntosh County Shouters, "I Won't Turn Back" (on McIntoshShouters-SpiritualsShouts)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (verse)
NOTES [135 words]: The verse on McIntoshShouters-SpiritualsShouts, sung by the leader, is "Dark was the night and cold was the ground, On which the Lord was laid, The sweat like drops of blood ran down, In agony he prayed." - BS
The story of the "bloody sweat" is in Luke 22:43-44. The verses are found in the King James Version, but their authority is very questionable. Although found in the large majority of witnesses, most of the earliest witnesses, including the very earliest of all, omit them (found in ℵ* D L Q 892, the vast majority of late Greek manusscripts, and almost all Latin translations, but omitted by P75 A B N R T W 0211 579 1071* f sinai-syriac sahidic; looking at the evidence, the likely explanation is that this was an insertion invented in the Latin west and only later added to Greek manuscripts). - RBW
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File: RcIWTuBa

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