Lord Will Make a Way Somehow, The

DESCRIPTION: Eight line verses ending "I say to my soul (don't worry take courage), The Lord will make a way somehow." The singer is "Like a ship thast's tossed and driven, Battered by an angry sea" and finds "my race so hard" and "good fortune's always passed me by"
AUTHOR: Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) (source: James Cleveland and Soul Stirrers record sleeve attributions)
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (recording, The Soul Stirrers)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
Roud #17359
RECORDINGS:
The Blind Boys of Alabama, "Lord Will Make a Way" (1995, on "I Brought Him With Me," House of Blues 7001087003-2)
Rev. James Cleveland and the Charles Fold Singers, "The Lord Will Make a Way" (1978, on "Tomorrow (Vol. 3)," Savoy DBL 7020)
The Soul Stirrers, "Lord Will Make a Way" (Aladdin 2001, 1946)
Lovey Williams and Family, "The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow" (on USMississippi01)
NOTES [63 words]: The Lovey Williams and family recording takes the beginning of a verse -- "The Lord will make a way somehow When beneath the cross I bow. He will take away my sorrow; Let him have your burden now" -- as the first half of a chorus that continues, "I looked up and wondered why" followed by a statement about life's difficulties, and ended by the usual two line verse ending. - BS
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