“Nobody Knows”

Description

The singer complains of being misunderstood: "Nobody knows how heavy my load, Nobody knows how thorny my road, Nobody knows cares if I'm troubled in the way, How dark the night, how dark the day." Only Jesus, who understands, will help

Supplemental text

Nobody Knows
  Partial text(s)

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From Anne Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne &
Frank Warner Collection, #171, p. 389. From the singing of
Sue Thomas of North Carolina, 1939.

Nobody knows how heavy my load,
Nobody knows how throny (sic.) my road.
Nobody cares if I'm troubled on the way,
How dark the night, how dark the day.

  Chorus
  Nobody knows, nobody cares,
  My heavy burden nobody shares.
  My only comfort, my only stay,
  Jesus is walking by my side always.

(3 additional stanzas)

Notes

As Warner notes, this is NOT "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." - RBW

Recordings

• Sue Thomas, "Nobody Knows" (on USWarnerColl01)

References

1. Warner 171, "Nobody Knows" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST Wa171 (Partial)
3. Roud #7488
4. BI, Wa171