[Music]
There was a little fam'ly
That liv'd in Bethany,
Two sisters and a brother
Compos'd that family.
With shouting and with singing
Like angels in the sky,
At morning and at evening
They rais'd their voices high.
See _White Spirituals_ for the full text of seven stanzas about the
raising of Lazarus. For references see JAFL, xxv., 17, and xxix., 182.
Almost the same tune is 'Johnny German', Sharp, ii., 256. 'Joe
Bowers', Cox, 527, is also similar. Another spiritual ballad using
this tune in variant form is 'Wedlock (A)', in this collection.
No. 9
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