615. Nobody Knows

615
Nobody Knows

The song appears in Allen S.S 55; Marsh, The Story of the
Jubilee Singers; Jackson WNS 159; and many other printed col-
lections — with variations.

Collected by I. T. Poole, Burke county ; undated.

1 Nobody knows the trouble I seen ;
Nobody knows but Jesus.
Nobody knows de trouble I seen.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.

2 Sometimes Ls up, sometime's Ls down,
Oh, yes, Lord ;

Sometimes Ls almost to the groun'.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.