Transcript, Parchman Penitentiary

Parchman Penitentiary

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(Work Chants)

Oh Rosie, (Phrases repeated by workers)

Well oh Lord Gal

Well I cut your kindling

I’ll build your fire

I’ll tote your water from

The boggy bayou

Said I would do your cooking but

I don’t know how

Oh, Rosie

Well Oh lord gal

Oh, Rosie

Well Oh Lord gal

Said Rosie, Rosie, Gal

Will you be mine?

I won’t do nothing but

Wash and iron.

A gal like you just do

What I tell you to do

Said I’ll be true, you know,

Just true to you

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Don’t want no woman, you

Don’t know my name

I’m the same grand rascal stole

The watch and chain

I’m the same grand rascal want

To be your man

I’m the same grand rascal used to

To hold your hand

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Well you won’t write me, you

Won’t come and see

Say you won’t write me you

Won’t send no word

Said I get my news from

The mocking bird

Said I get my news from

The mocking bird

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Said Rosie, Rosie, Gal

Will you be mine

Said I won’t do nothing but

But wash and Iron

Said a gal like you just do

What I tell you to do

Said I’ll be true, you know

Well true to you

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Don’t want no woman, you

Don’t know my name

I’m the same grand rascal stole

The watch and chain.

I’m the same grand rascal want

To be your man

I’m the same grand rascal used

To hold your hand

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Well you won’t write me, you

Won’t come and see

Say you won’t write me, you

Won’t send no word

Said, I get my news from

From the mocking bird

Said I get my news from

That mocking bird

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

Oh Rosie

Well oh lord gal

This old hoe was made in Jackson

Just for me

Oh yeah,

Just for me.

This old hoe was made in Jackson

Just for me

Lord, Lord,

Just for me

This old hoe is much too heavy

For a light weight man, oh yeah

This old hoe is much too heavy

For a light weight man, Lord, Lord

For a light weight man

Take this hoe and carry it to the sergeant

Sergeant Webb, oh yeah

Take this hoe and carry it to the sergeant

Sergeant Webb, Lord, Lord

Sergeant Webb

If he ask you what is the matter

The handle too long, oh yeah

If he asks you was I running

Tell him I’m gone

If he asks you was I running

Tell him I was flying, oh yeah

If he asks you was I running

Tell him I was flying, Lord, Lord

Tell him I was flying

He gonner ask you a few more questions

You don’t know, oh yes

He gonner ask you a few more questions

You don’t know, Lord, Lord

You don’t know

Mud

(Sermon)

We read the second coming of the Lord is when Christ comes back to this earth.

His first appearing was when he spent 33 years upon this earth as a carpenter’s son,

As God’s son as he stood upon this earth.

Then he was taken away.

God gave him a glorified body.

As he sits at the right hand of the Father tonight.

But I am looking tonight not for the Second Coming.

But I am looking for the Rapture of the Church.

Because the 24th chapter of Matthew says that two shall be grinding at the mill.

One shall be taken.

One shall be left.

Two shall be live.

And one dead.

One shall be taken.

And One shall be left.

The day that Christ shall arise

And those that remain alive

Shall be call from the earth

And shall meet with the Lord

And shall forever be with him.

This is what I am looking for.

This is the Rapture of the Spirit

The time has come

That the Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians

When God strikes

What has been born again

By the power and the spirit of God

By the blood of Jesus Christ

This is the Church that he is looking for

(Gospel Songs)

Jesus in heaven (refrain)

Oh Jesus

Lord Jesus

I can call you

In the morning

In the evening

Late at night

Be baptised

I feel all right

I know the way

Lord Jesus

I can call you

In the morning

Late in the evening

Late at night

I been baptized

I feel all right

I know the way (know the way)

I know I’ll be (know I’ll be)

Home one day (home one day)

Whoa, I thank you Jesus

I thank you Jesus

I thank you Lord

You brought me me from a mighty, a mighty long way

Thank you Jesus

I thank you Jesus

I thank you Lord

You brought me from

You brought me from a mighty, a mighty long way

I thank you Jesus

I thank you Lord

You brought me

You brought me from a mighty, a mighty long way

You been my bread

You been my water

You been my shelter in times of storm

You brought me

Yes, you brought me from a mighty, a mighty long way

I thank you Jesus

You brought me

Yes you did

I thank you Jesus

I thank you Lord

My Lord

I thank you Jesus

My Lord (falcetto)

My Lord

Yes

My Lord

My Father

My Brother

My Sister

I thank you Jesus

Yes I do

Lord

Oh, I’m want to tell you a story

That I want you to hear

It’s about King Jesus was hung on high

And I heard him when he cried

With a sword in his side

And just before he left for his home on high

Want to tell you

They took my Lord and let him on down

They wrapped him in a red robe

And swaddling clothes

Said look here, Judas, what you done done

You done sold out my Lord

But that’s all right

They tell my Judas throwed away that silver

And hung himself

I’m holding God’s hand

And about that man Jesus

I never have seen

They took my Lord and laid him on down

They wrapped him in a red robe

And swaddling clothes.

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