Over Yonder Where the Sun Will Never Shine

DESCRIPTION: Verses are: (line, "Where the sun will never shine")(2x). Lines include "I am going over yonder," "I'll be shouting/walking over yonder" and "Meet my mother over yonder"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (USMississippi01)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Rose Hill Church, "Over Yonder Where the Sun Will Never Shine" (on USMississippi01)
SAME TUNE:
Since I Laid My Burden Down (File: ADR70)
NOTES [48 words]: A similar hymn is The Swan Silvertones' "Over Yonder" (2005, on "The Swan Silvertones--1946-1951," Acrobat ADDCD 3004). The Rose Hill Church hymn uses "Where the sun will never shine" as a response for each line called; the Swan Silvertones' hymn uses each line as a call and response. - BS
Last updated in version 5.1
File: RcOYWSNS

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