“My Lovin' Father (When the World's On Fire)”

Description

"My lovin' father, When the world's on fire, Don't you want God's bosom For to be your pillow? Hide me, oh thou, in the rock of ages, Rock of ages, cleft for me." (Similarly with mother and perhaps other relatives)

Supplemental text

My Lovin' Father (When the World's On Fire)
  Complete text(s)

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As recorded by the Carter Family, Victor V-40293, 1940. Transcribed by
Robert B. Waltz.

Oh my loving mother, when the world's on fire,
Don't you want God's bosom to be your pillow?
Hide me over in the rock of ages,
Rock of ages, cleft for me.

I'm going to heaven when the world's on fire
And I want God's bosom to be my pillow.
Hide me over in the rock of ages,
Rock of ages, cleft for me.

Oh my loving brother, when the world's on fire,
Don't you want God's bosom to be your pillow?
Hide me over in the rock of ages,
Rock of ages, cleft for me.

Oh my loving sinner, when the world's on fire,
Don't you want God's bosom to be your pillow?
Hide me over in the rock of ages,
Rock of ages, cleft for me.

Don't you want to go to heaven when the world's on fire,
Don't you want God's bosom to be your pillow?
Hide me over in the rock of ages,
Rock of ages, cleft for me.

Notes

The version of this recorded by the Carter Family, or one of its relatives, is probably the tune-source for Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." - RBW

Same tune

• Charlie Monroe's Boys "(New) When the World's On Fire" (Montgomery Ward M-7574, 1938)

Cross references

• cf. "This Land Is Your Land" (tune)

Recordings

• The Carter Family, "When the World's On Fire" (Victor V-40293, 1930/Montgomery Ward M-4229, 1933)

References

1. Randolph 637, "My Lovin' Father" (1 short text, 1 tune)
2. ST R637 (Full)
3. Roud #4225; also probably 5119
4. BI, R637