{"id":635,"date":"2010-11-03T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:31","slug":"didnt-my-lord-deliver-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/didnt-my-lord-deliver-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t My Lord Deliver Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Book of American Negro Spirituals<\/em> by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (New York: Viking, 1940).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Chorus<br \/>\n<\/em>Didn&#8217;t my Lord deliver Daniel<br \/>\nDeliver Daniel, deliver Daniel<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t my Lord deliver Daniel<br \/>\nThen why not every man?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>He delivered Daniel from the lions&#8217; den<br \/>\nJonah from the belly of the whale<br \/>\nAnd the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace<br \/>\nSo why not every man.<\/li>\n<li>The moon come down in a purple stream<br \/>\nAnd the sun forbear to shine<br \/>\nAnd every soul that never pray say<br \/>\nKing Jesus shall be mine.<\/li>\n<li>I put my foot on the gospel ship<br \/>\nAnd the ship it began to sail<br \/>\nIt sailed right over to Canaan&#8217;s shore<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll never come back any more.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>The wind blows east, the wind blows west<br \/>\nIt blows like the judgment day<br \/>\nAnd every soul that never prayed<br \/>\nWill be glad to pray on that day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Book of American Negro Spirituals by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (New York: Viking, 1940). Chorus Didn&#8217;t my Lord deliver Daniel Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel Didn&#8217;t my Lord deliver Daniel Then why not every man? He delivered Daniel from the lions&#8217; den Jonah from the belly of the whale And the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}