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Day 304 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
First published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 The American Songbag.
I believe everyone needs to say or yell "house" in the first two occurrences of each verse. I'd also add, I'm not sure a church exists with no liars.
Sandburg writes: "This spiritual comes from blacks in Fort Worth, Texas, through the medium of Jake Zeitlin, a poet who used to send me each year a horned toad from the Great Staked Plains. The list of occupations named in these verses can be extended according to desire or whim."
Day 304 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
First published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 The American Songbag.
I believe everyone needs to say or yell "house" in the first two occurrences of each verse. I'd also add, I'm not sure a church exists with no liars.
Sandburg writes: "This spiritual comes from blacks in Fort Worth, Texas, through the medium of Jake Zeitlin, a poet who used to send me each year a horned toad from the Great Staked Plains. The list of occupations named in these verses can be extended according to desire or whim."
