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Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream
This song alludes to the story of Elisha's curing the Syrian cap-
tain Naanian of leprosy, as related in II Kings 5. Chappell FSRA
169 prints a stanza with music from Tom Forbes, Old Trap, Pas-
quotank county, taken down in 1938. It is identical in text with
the following, except that it has "hallelujah" after "stream" in 1. i.
From Julian P. Boyd, as collected from Jeannette Tingle, a pupil of the
school at Alliance, Pamlico county, c. 1927-28.
Go wash in the beatitiful stream,
Go wash in the beautiful stream,
Oh, Naaman. oh. Naaman,
Go down and wash.
Go wash in the beautiful stream!