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<P>Down south, DOWN HOME is a common expression. You should have some down-home cooking with some sweet down-home people!</P>
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<P><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 5/14/08, Mark Mandel <I><thnidu@GMAIL.COM></I></B> wrote:<BR></P>
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I'm just a-goin' over Jordan,
I'm just a-goin' over home.
"Wayfaring Stranger" (a spiritual)
The song, including these lines and specifically "over home", is
attested at least as of 1858. See
http://supersearch.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23495#624401 :
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Subject: Lyr Add: GOING OVER JORDAN (WAYFARING STRANGER)
From: Burke
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 06:52 PM
GOING OVER JORDAN (Wayfaring Stranger)
8s & 9s
1. I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
While wandering through this world of woe;
But there's no sickness, death, nor sorrow,
In that bright world to which I go.
CHORUS:
I'm going there to see my father,
I'm going there to see my Lord;
I'm just a going over Jordan,
I'm just a going over home.
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From: Beaver, John., The Christian Songster, Dayton, Ohio: Printing
establishment of the United Brethren in Christ, 1858. Text only, no.
23, p. 34. Reproduced in: Garst, John F., "Poor Wayfaring
Stranger--Early Publications." The Hymn, v. 31, no.2 (1980): p.97-101.
@religion @hymn @spiritual
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray@gmail.com> wrote:
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> These uses of "up home, down home" are new to me. But "over
home"
> seems fine, though not necessarily with so specific a meaning, of
> course. ;-)
>
> -Wilson
Mark Mandel
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