[Music]
'Tis the old-time religion,
The old-time religion,
'Tis the old-time religion,
It's good enough for me.
Subsequent verses have "It was good for Paul and Silas" and for
practically everybody. It is the author's recording from memory of
hearing it sung at meetings of both negroes and whites. Sharp, ii.,
291, has the above tune with a judgment-day text under the title
'Sinner Man', a song which had come from negro sources.
No. 219
TAKE ME HOME or I'M ALONE IN THIS WORLD