Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. Oh the Deacon went down (echo)
To the cellar to pray (echo)
He found a jug (echo)
And he stayed all day (echo)
Oh the Deacon went down to the cellar to pray,
He found a jug and he stayed all day,
I ain’t gonna grieve my Lord no more (my Lord no more)
Refrain
I ain’t gonna grieve my Lord no more
I ain’t gonna grieve my Lord no more
I ain’t gonna grieve my Lord no more
2. Oh you can’t get to heaven (echo)
On roller skates (echo)
You’ll roll right by (echo)
Those pearly gates (echo)
Oh you can’t get to Heaven on roller skates,
You’ll roll right by those pearly gates.
I ain’t gonna grieve my Lord no more (my Lord no more) Refrain
3. Oh you can’t get to heaven (echo)
In a rockin’ chair (echo)
Cause the Lord don’t want (echo)
No lazybones there (echo)
Oh you can’t get the heaven… Refrain
4. Oh you can’t get to heaven…in a limousine…
‘Cause the Lord don’t sell… no gasoline… Refrain
5. Oh you can’t get to heaven… In dirty duds…
‘Cause the Lord don’t have… no super suds… Refrain
6. I’ll put my grief… up on the shelf…
If you want some more… make ’em up yourself… Refrain
See also
- Subject: silly
- Form: call & response / AB
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: repeated tones / re / fa
- Meter: 4
- Scale: major
- Source: Wee Sing Silly Songs, Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1982
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
6 thoughts on “Ain’t Gonna Grieve My Lord No More”
Oh you can’t get to heaven in an old Ford car
Cause the gosh darn thing can’t go that far!
I aint gonna greive my lord no more
😉 😉 😉
You can’t get to heaven with nickels in your jeans
Cause the lord don’t have
No slot machines
🙂 lol
Do you know a version that says if you get to heaven before I do just drill a hole and pull me thru?
I was taught a version in grade school with this verse in “ Oh the Decan(?) went down in the cellar to pray, an’it gona greve(?) my Lord no more.
Sorry I’m a poor speller.
Yes, there are lots of different versions of these lyrics! 🙂