Big Bob

This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.

Folk songs--United States

Salvation--Christianity--Songs and music

Vices--Songs and music

I'm Saved

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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“The Big Bob”.

Oh! some folks jump up and down all night,
At a d-a-n-c-e.
While others go to church to show their,
brand new h-a-t.
They smear their face with a great big dab,
Of p-a-i-n-t.
And then they laugh at us because we’re s-a-v-e-d.

Chorus:
G-l-o-r-y I’m s-a-v-e-d I’m h-a-p-p-y to know I’m
f-r-ee, G-l-o-r-y- the chain of this I am I’m
h-a-p-p-y- to know that I am Christ within.

These girls who live in our town so n-i-c-e,
They bob their hair in the finest style
with a s-h-a-v-e. And on each finger place
a r-i-n-g, all there goes in the Bible knows
We’re s-a-v-e-d.

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