Do You Live by Prayer?- Bahama Spiritual

Do You Live By Prayer?
Bahama Spiritual- Charles Lincoln Edwards- 1895

Do You Live By Prayer? 
 
Traditional Spiritual;

ARTIST: from Bahama Songs and Stories:  Volume 3 By Charles Lincoln Edwards

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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;

DATE: early 1900s; 
 
RECORDING INFO: Do You Live By Prayer?

Charles Lincoln Edwards. Bahama Songs and Stories:  Volume 3 

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RELATED TO: When I Can Read My Title Clear (lyrics)

SOURCES: Bahama Songs and Stories: Volume 3 by Charles Lincoln Edwards 1895;

NOTES:  "Do You Live By Prayer? " is a traditional spiritual. This version is from Bahama Songs and Stories:  Volume 3 By Charles Lincoln Edwards. These songs were brought to the Bahamas by African-Americans and are quite old. 

The last three verses are based on the following text from Watts: 

When I Can Read My Title Clear- Isaac Watts, pub. 1707

When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.

Should earth against my soul engage,
And hellish darts be hurled,
Then I can smile at Satan’s rage,
And face a frowning world.

 

Do You Live By Prayer?- Collected by Charles Lincoln Edwards

Do you live by prayer?
Do you live by prayer?
Oh yes, I do live by prayer.

Do you live by prayer?
Do you live by prayer?
Oh yes, I do live by prayer.

Re-e-member me,
Re-e-member me,
Oh yes, remember me.

Have you passed here before?
Have you passed here before?
Oh yes, I have passed here before.

When I can read
My title clear
To mansions in the skies,

I'll bid farewell
To ev'ry fear,
An' wipe my weepin' eyes.

Then I can smile
At Satan's rage
To see a burnin' world.