597. It's Good fuh Hab Some Patience
From Miss S. O. H. Dickson, Winston-Salem, Forsyth county, in a letter dated November 5, 1913, enclosing this and a version of 'Roll Jordan, Roll' (see C in this collection), with this note: "The tunes of both were spirited, and they were sung with accompaniment of the oars often as they rowed on the river." She indicates that the provenience of both songs was the Sea Islands.
Chorus:
It's good fuh hab some patience, patience, patience ;
It's good ftih hab some patience
Fuh ter wait upon de Lawd.
1 My brudder. won't you rise en' go wid me.
My brudder, won't you rise en' go wid me,
My brudder, won't you rise en' go wid me
Fuh ter wait upon de Lawd?
2 My sister, etc.
3 My fader, etc.
4 My mudder. etc.