444. If You Want to Go to Heaven

444
If You Want to Go to Heaven

This seems to be Negro hunior ; it is known among the Negroes
of Alabama (ANFS 135, 144). Mississippi (JAFL xxvi 158), and
Texas (TNFS 225). Our text is not strictly from North Carolina,
but the distance is not significant.

No title. Contributed by Cousor, Bishopville, South Carolina.

If you want to go to heaven I'll tell you iiow to do:
Grease yourself with chicken soup.
And if the devil get[s] after you with the red-hot pan.
Just slide over into the Promised Land.