No More, My Lord

DESCRIPTION: "No more, my Lord (x2), Lord, I'll never turn back no more." "I found in him a resting place And he has made me glad." "Jesus is the man I am looking for, Can you tell me where he's gone?" "Go down, go down in the floweryard And... you may find him...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 567, "Gwine Down to Jordan" (1 short text); 617, "No More! No More!" (1 short text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 567, "Grine Down Jordan" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Scarborough-OnTheTrailOfNegroFolkSongs, p. 15, (no title; the first line is "I'm gwine down to Jordan -- Hallelu!") (1 fragment, which could be anything; I'm filing it here in desperation based on the similarity to Brown's title)
Scott-TheBalladOfAmerica, pp. 312-313, "No More, My Lord" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #15975
RECORDINGS:
Madame Ernestine, "I'll Never Turn Back" (on Great Gospel Performers Document Records DOCD-5463 (1996))
Jimpson, "No More, My Lord" (LoC, 1947; on Babylon)
Sister Marie Knight, "I'll Never Turn Back No More" (Candy 4002, n.d. but post-World War II)
NOTES [18 words]: According to the editors of Brown, this may have inspired W. C. Handy's "I'll Never Turn Back No More." - RBW
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File: SBoA312

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