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ROSEWOOD CASKET (THE LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET) Sung by: Mrs. Ben Daugherty Recorded in Cave City, AR 8/24/58 Click here to listen to the original recording Lying there upon the stand, Is a package of false letters Written by a treasure hand. Will you get them for me, Sister? Read them o'er and o'er to me? For ofttimes I've tried to read them, But for tears I could not see. Now you've brought them all, dear Sister. Read them o'er and o'er to me, For ofttimes I've tried to read them, But for tears I could not see. Now you've read them all, dear Sister. Place them all in one little box, Though the little ring he gave me Never from my finger shall part. When I'm dead, oh Sister darling, And a shroud around me is wound, And a little bed is ready In some lonely graveyard yon. Do not weep for me, dear Sister, Do not weep when I'm gone. I'll be asleep to wake with Jesus. Oh, dear Sister, do not weep. Also found in Randolph, Vol. IV, #763, "The Little Rosewood Casket"; Brown, Vol. II, #273, "Little Rosewood Casket"; Belden, p. 220, "Little Rosewood Casket." |
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