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Church Across The Way, The
Public Domain Gospel; Words & Music: By W. B. Gray 1894 "The Church Across The Way" sheet music Indiana Collection as sung by Mr. George Carr
ARTIST: Vance Randolph from Bernice E. McWilliams in 1927
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DATE: Robert Emmet Winsett; No. 33 Songs of Pentecostal Power; 1908
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
RECORDING INFO: The Church Across the Way
McWilliams, Bernice E.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume IV, Religous Songs and Others, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p345/#825 [1927/08/07]
OTHER NAMES: "Hold Out Your Light of God" "Hold Out Your Light"
RELATED TO: "Heaven-Bound Soldier"
SOURCES: Songs of Pentecostal Power- Robert Emmet Winsett; No. 33
Kentucky Folklore Record, Volumes 21-22 - Page 16 Kentucky Folklore Society 1975
NOTES: "The Church Across The Way" is a public domain gospel song by W.B. Gray taht was collected by Vance Randolph from Bernice E. McWilliams in 1927. I don't have access to Randolph's version. Here's the original:
CHURCH ALONG THE WAY- 1894 By W.B.Gray. Sung by Mr. George Carr. (text incomplete)
Verse: One Easter Sunday morning, while the sun was shining bright,
And good folks to the old church came, the parsons prayer to hear
They little knew while seated there upon that blessed day,
A human life was ending in a home just o'er the way.
A man in deepest poverty without a single friend,
Would answer soon the call of Death, his life was nearing end
With non one there to comfort him, no tender words to say,
He heard the morning serice in the church across the way
Chorus: The minister was preaching, his good and sacred teaching,
The congregation in ecstacy, The bells had just ceased ringing,
The chopir was sweetly singing, nearer my God to thee.
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