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Believer I Know
Traditional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: From Katie Brown, Sapeo. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 220 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes - Music - 1992 - 256 pages
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; Collected and published in 1922 by Perkins in Journal of American folklore, Volume 35, Page 224 "In Some Lonesome Graveyard"
RECORDING INFO: Believer I Know
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SOURCES: Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 220 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes - Music - 1992 - 256 pages
NOTES: "Believer I Know" is a traditional spiritual collected by Lydia Parrish in the Georgia Sea Islands from Katie Brown, of Sapeo (born in 1850).
Parrish compares Katie Brown's "Believer I Know" to Isaac Watts text:
Watts:
Broad is the road that leads to death,
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shows a narrower path,
With here and there a traveller.
Katie Brown on Sapelo sings the following version— but to a tune that bears no relation to any I have ever heard:
Narrow road is Heaven road
Believer I know
With here and there a traveler
Believer I know
The broad road is hell road
Believer I know
Thousand walk together there
Believer I know
BELIEVER I KNOW- from Katie Brown, Sapeo (born in 1850)
I know, I know Lord,
Believer I know.
I know, I know Lord,
Believer I know.
I know the road so thorny,
Believer I know.
I know the road so thorny,
Believer I know.
It's thorny an' ruggy
Believer I know
It's thorny an' ruggy
Believer I know
The way to get to Heaven
Believer I know
Go in the wil'erness
Believer I know
Fall on your bending
Believer I know
Fall on your bending
Believer I know
Cry Lord have mercy
Believer I know
Cry Lord have mercy
Believer I know
The way to get to Heaven
Believer I know
Love everybody
Believer I know
Love the Christian pastor
Believer I know
Love everybody
Believer I know
Narrow road is Heaven road
Believer I know
With here and there a traveler
Believer I know
The broad road is hell road
Believer I know
Thousand walk together there
Believer I know
Glory hallelujah
Believer I know
I done cross Jurdan,
Believer I know.
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