Bright and Morning Star

Bright and Morning Star

Roud 2430

Walter and Lola Caldwell, vocals with guitar.
Recorded 1934 in Ashland, Kentucky, by Jean Thomas. Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song 294 B.
I'm On My Journey Home: Vocal Styles and Resources in Folk Music, New World Records 80549.

Chorus:

We are the trueborn sons of Levi,
We are the trueborn sons of God,
We are the roots and the branch of David,
The bright and glorious morning star.

1. When Joshua and I crossed the Jordan,
   Two leaves of corn we lifted high,
   To the high priest and the grand master,
   We bore the ark of God and son.
   
   (Chorus)
   
   
2. Come all ye knights, ye knights of Molite,
   And learn to do as I have done,
   You might have been a guard much brighter,
   When in the new Jerusalem.
   
   
3. In the tent [unintelligible] the ark was resting,
   And there we did receive the word,
   One day would come and ram horn sounded,
   They found it out before the ark.
   
   (Chorus)
   
   
4. When Moses planted the rod of Aaron,
   And in one night that rod did bud,
   When Moses smote the Egyptian water,
   That very night it turned to blood.

(from the record liner notes)