“Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down”

Description

"I want to see my mother sometime (x2), where the flowers will bloom forever, and the sun don't never go down... Don't you feel like shouting sometimes, sometimes?" Repeat with father, brother, sister, Savior

Supplemental text

Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down
  Partial text(s)

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From Anne Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne &
Frank Warner Collection, #88, pp. 222-223. From the singing of
Buna Vista Presnell Hicks, Beech Mountain, North Carolina, 1974.

I want to see my mother sometime, sometime,
I want to see my mother sometime,
Where the flowers will bloom forever,
And the sun don't never go down.

  Chorus:
  Where the sun don't never go down, go down,
  Where the sun don't never go down,
  Where the flowers will bloom forever,
  And the sun don't never go down.

(4 additional stanzas)

Recordings

• George Herod, "O, The Sun Don't Never Go Down (Don't you feel like cryin' some time)" (on MuSouth07)
• Dock Reed, "Where The Sun Will Never Go Down" (on NFMAla5) (on ReedWard01)

References

1. Warner 88, "Where the Sun Don't Never Go Down" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Courlander-NFM, p. 72, "(The Sun Will Never Go Down)" (1 text); p. 238, "The Sun Will Never Go Down" (1 tune, partial text)
3. ST Wa088 (Partial)
4. Roud #5717
5. BI, Wa088