From the album "Roadhouse"
Zoomer Roberts: vocalsSacred Harp singing isn't indigenous to El Paso, but thanks to the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue, I've been exposed to quite a bit of this ancient and intriguing music.
The words to "David's Lamentation" are from 2 Samuel 18:33 -- And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! (KJV)
