I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.