Annotation:Johnny Inchin' Along
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHNNY INCHIN' ALONG. AKA and see "Indian Nation," "Nigger Inch Along." Old-Time. Dorothy Scarborough cites a Negro spiritual (in Negro Folk Songs) collected from an informant from East Waco, Texas, which has the lines:
Keep a-inching along like a poor inch worm,
Jesus will come bye and bye.
Luther Strong and W H. Stepp both play this melody (more or less) and call it by the "N" name
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Recorded sources: Gennett 7049 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts (1929).