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WE WILL PASS THROUGH THE VALLEY Sung by: Orville McInturff Recorded in Marshall, AR 8/6/62 Click here to listen to the original recording I'm not lost. Oh, fathers, don't grieve after me, After me when I am dead, Lying silent in the grave. Chorus: We will pass through the valley in peace, oh Lord, We will pass through the valley in peace. If Jesus there our leader be, We will pass through the valley in peace. (Comment by Mr. McInturff: "Same thing: father, mother, sister, brother, and so forth.") Oh, mothers, don't grieve after me; I'm not lost. Oh, mothers, don't grieve after me, After me when I am dead, Lying silent in the grave. (Chorus) (Mr. McInturff: "'Course, I'm teaching Dr. Wolf here. This little jaybird from Searcy County had this little suggestion. I can sing round music some (I'm not a hotshot at it), but when we used to travel with the quartet, we used it altogether, and I could sing it, but if we're going to sing these folk songs--these old songs--I think they ought to be in shape notes. "And I had this illustration for Dr. Wolf that shape notes are so much more easily sung, for this reason. Just take it, for instance, that Dr. Wolf, we'd want to put a big inflated balloon around him, and you can't see him, and one around me, and one around Jim Driftwood over here. We're going to set them on their own porch. Well, I'd pass Jim's house over there, and I'd say, 'Well, I guess that's Jim, there, he's setting on his porch over there,' and I'd pass Dr. Wolf and see him on the porch, 'Yeah, that's, I guess that's Dr. Wolf, I believe it is, he's setting on his own porch there, and that's Orville McInturff, he's setting on his porch there.' "Well, that represents our place on the staff, there, those notes, and, but if Dr. Wolf had his head a-sticking out of that balloon as I went by, 'By George, that's Dr. Wolf, know him just as quick as I saw him.' Pass Jim, and see him, 'Why, that's old Jim, I know him just . . .', so that makes it much more easily sung.") |
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