Oh Lord, teach me to pray.
Recorded by the author from the singing of Donald Davidson, in Nashville, Tennessee, January 20, 1932. He had heard his father, W. B. Davidson, sing it twenty years before in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Negro versions are in Marsh, p. 156, and Slave Songs, No. 104.
No. 208
[GIVE ME JESUS], REV 89
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
When I’m happy, hear me sing,
When I’m happy, hear me sing,
When I’m happy, hear me sing,
Give me Jesus;
Give me Jesus,