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COTTON SONG
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table of contents
  1. CANE
  2. FOREWORD
  3. CONTENTS
  4. KARINTHA
  5. REAPERS
  6. NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER
  7. BECKY
  8. FACE
  9. COTTON SONG
  10. CARMA
  11. SONG OF THE SON
  12. GEORGIA DUSK
  13. FERN
  14. NULLO
  15. EVENING SONG
  16. ESTHER
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  17. CONVERSION
  18. PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA
  19. BLOOD-BURNING MOON
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  20. SEVENTH STREET
  21. RHOBERT
  22. AVEY
  23. BEEHIVE
  24. STORM ENDING
  25. THEATER
  26. HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE
  27. CALLING JESUS
  28. BOX SEAT
    1. 1
    2. 2
  29. PRAYER
  30. HARVEST SONG
  31. BONA AND PAUL
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
  32. KABNIS
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4

COTTON SONG

Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
Come now, hewit! roll away!
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
But lets not wait for it.
God’s body’s got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll!
Cotton bales are the fleecy way
Weary sinner’s bare feet trod,
Softly, softly to the throne of God,
“We aint agwine t wait until th Judgment Day!
Nassur; nassur,
Hump.
Eoho, eoho, roll away!
We aint agwine t wait until th Judgment Day!”
God’s body’s got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll!

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