One Kind Favor

 


Well there's one kind favor I'll ask for you
One kind favor I'll ask for you
One kind favor I'll ask for you
Won’t you see that my grave is kept clean

Six white horses following me
Six white horses following me

Six white horses following me
Carrying me to my burying ground

 

Can’t you hear that mournful sound

Can’t you hear that mournful sound

Can’t you hear that mournful sound

Means another poor boy is under the ground
 

One kind favor I'll ask for you
One kind favor I'll ask for you
One kind favor I'll ask for you
Won’t you see that my grave is kept clean
 

One kind favor I'll ask for you
Won’t you see that my grave is kept clean

 

Traditional -adapted by Blind Lemon Jefferson 1927

Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded the traditional "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" in October 1927, two years before he froze to death on the streets of Chicago. When Jefferson learned the song it was a folk spiritual called "Two White Horses In A Line", also known as "One Kind Favour". He turned it into something entirely his own and although Bob Dylan followed Jefferson's arrangement fairly closely on his debut album, the two versions are also quite different.

Brewer & Shipley opened concerts with this song for years, their version can be found on the
Brewer & Shipley Archive Alive CD

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        Last modified: 04/07/2008