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SETTING DOWN BY THE SIDE OF THAT LAMB Sung by: W.P. Detherow Recorded in Batesville, AR, 6/25/52 Click here to listen to the original recording And my soul got happy and I stayed all day. (Mr. Detherow: "Oh, what am I doing?") I went up on the hillside; I didn't go to stay, And my soul got happy and I stayed all day. Chorus: Setting down by the side of that Lamb, That Lamb of God, good Lord, Setting down by the side of that Lamb. Young lady, young lady, you're dressing mighty fine, But you ain't got God Almighty on your mind. (Chorus) Young man, young man, you look mighty gay, But the chariot's a-going to came and carry you away. (Chorus) 'Way down yonder on that rock, Me and God Almighty's going to stand and talk. (Chorus) The poor man on earth, he's as poor as I, But when he dies, he get a home on high. (Chorus) A rich man on earth, he fares mighty well, But when he dies he get a home in hell. (Chorus) (Mr. Detherow: "This song is supposed to be about a hundred years old. It was sung by George McClure's father, and George would be upward in the eighties; he's probably ninety by now, himself, and I guess it's a hundred years old or more. He's deceased. He's been dead thirty years, and there was a young George here . . .") |
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