Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down

DESCRIPTION: "I want to see my mother sometime (x2), where the flowers will bloom forever, and the sun don't never go down... Don't you feel like shouting sometimes, sometimes?" Repeat with father, brother, sister, Savior
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (recording, Dock Reed)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad family
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Warner-TraditionalAmericanFolkSongsFromAnneAndFrankWarnerColl 88, "Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NegroFolkMusic, p. 72, "(The Sun Will Never Go Down)" (1 text); p. 238, "The Sun Will Never Go Down" (1 tune, partial text)
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol2, pp. 96-97, "Where the Sun Will Never Go Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
Killion/Waller-ATreasuryOfGeorgiaFolklore, pp. 242-243, "Where De Sun Don't Neber Go Down" (1 text, with no mention of family members; it's about how hard the singer works, prays, mourns so hard)
ADDITIONAL: Harold Courlander, _A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore_, Crown Publishers, 1976, p. 337, "(The Sun Will Never Go Down)" (1 text)
ST Wa088 (Partial)
Roud #5717
RECORDINGS:
George Herod, "O, The Sun Don't Never Go Down (Don't you feel like cryin' some time)" (on MuSouth07)
Dock Reed, "Where The Sun Will Never Go Down" (on NFMAla5) (on ReedWard01)
File: Wa088

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