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PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS Sung by: Ollie Gilbert Recorded in Mountain View, AR by George Fisher Click here to listen to the original recording They’ll come to my house and talk about you. They’ll go to your house and talk about me. When they talk, they talk mighty plain. Sally, when you tell it, don’t you call my name, And it’s, ooh, John, hallelujah, Come preaching in the wilderness. Well, a Louisiana nigger a-laying behind a log, His finger on the trigger and his eye on the hog, Pull that trigger, and the gun went whip, Jumped on that hog with all his grip, And it’s ooh, John, hallelujah, Come preaching in the wilderness. Some say the preacher, they won’t steal, But I caught two in my watermelon field. They’s preaching and a-praying and a-talking all the time, Eating out the insides and throwing away the rind, And it’s ooh, John, hallelujah, Come preaching in the wilderness. Well, old Aunt Dinah was sick in the bed. She raised up the window; she stuck out her head. Along come a snowball, hit her, ka-bim. Nigger, nigger, nigger, don’t you do that again, And it’s ooh, John, hallelujah, Come preaching in the wilderness. |
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All Songs Recorded by John Quincy Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Back to the Song Index Back to the Wolf Collection Homepage ©Copyright 2002 Lyon College |