Name: Oil In My Vessel (Trad.)
Duration: P00H04M41S
Description: I learned and played this with NC old-time fiddler and singer Joe Thompson and Bob Carlin at a music camp in WV, a performance that survives on Thompson's CD. I wrote the last verse here.

Oil In My Vessel (Trad.)

from Thunder's Mouth by Scott Ainslie

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I learned and played this with NC old-time fiddler and singer Joe Thompson and Bob Carlin at a music camp in WV, a performance that survives on Thompson's CD. I wrote the last verse here.

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Oil In My Vessel (Traditional)

Well, I got oil in my vessel
Keep your lamp trimmed and burning
Got to be ready when that bride groom comes.
Well, I got oil in my vessel,
Keep your lamp trimmed and burning
Gonna be ready when that bride groom comes.

A-mazing grace, how sweet that sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see.

Must Jesus bear his cross alone
While all the world goes free?
No there is a cross for everyone,
And there’s a cross for me.

How happy are the saints above
Who once had struggled here,
Surrounded by the ones they love,
The love without the tears.

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from Thunder's Mouth, track released September 22, 2008

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Scott Ainslie Brattleboro, Vermont

A long history with older black blues and gospel players in the mid-South marks Ainslie's work deeply. He transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" (Hal Leonard, 1992) and has a teaching DVD on Johnson's music. A fine songwriter with a social conscience and a belief in the power of music to move and inspire, Ainslie's voice is a great force for good! ... more

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