There’ll be no distinction there    (video)

 

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1. There will be no more sorrow on that heavenly shore

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    there'll be no wolfs a howlin’ near the old cabin door.

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    We will all be quite wealthy and there'll be no more poor,

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    when we all get together on that heavenly shore.

 

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There'll be no distinction there, there'll be no distinction there !

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For the Lord am just, and the Lord am right,

 

and we'll all be white in the heavenly light,

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there'll be no distinction there !            +  instrumental = verse 1

 

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2. In the same kind of raiment's, in the same kind of pews

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    we will all sit together in the same kind of shoes.

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    The white folks and the colored, the gentile and the Jews,

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    they will all be so happy that he doesn’t refuse.

 

+    CHORUS     +  instrumental = verse 2

 

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3. They tell me up in heaven we will all be as one,

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    and we'll all sing together when the life's crown is won.

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    Our fathers and our mothers and sisters will be there,

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    for they tell me up in heaven no distinction there.

 

+    CHORUS     +  instrumental = verse 3

 

    (The Carter Family)