Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Dry Bones. Released into the public domain.
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky.
A rare example of the banjo used in a religious tune.
This tune contains references to Enoch (Gen 5:21-24), Paul (Acts 16:25-26), Moses (Exo 3:2) and an account out of Ezekiel about walking bones (Ezek 37:1-10), not to mention Eve and "Satan a-tempting me."
Enoch
lived to be
three-hundred and sixty-five
And then the Lord came down and took him
up to heaven alive.
Chorus:
I saw,
I saw the light from heaven
Come shining all around.
I saw the light come shining.
I saw the light come down.
Paul bound in prison,
and the prison walls fell down
And then the prison keeper shouted,
“Redeeming Love I’ve found.”
Chorus
When Moses saw the burning bush
he walked it round and round.
And then the Lord said, “Moses,
you’re treading on holy ground.
Chorus
Dry bones
in the valley
got up and took a little walk.
And then the deaf could hear,
and the dumb in the valley could talk.
Chorus
Adam and Eve in the garden
underneath a sycamore tree.
And then Eve said, “Adam, Old Satan is a-tempting me.”
Chorus
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