"Dives and Lazarus" genre: Christian Country
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	."Dives and Lazarus," 3:20, Rick Lee, vocal and banjo; recorded by Nathan Smith at Mainframe
	CD: There's Talk About a Fence   Label: Waterbug WBG-0047 Credits: Trad. arr. Rick Lee, ©1997, Natick Music, BMI
	Story Behind the Song Jesus's story of the rich man and Lazarus is found in Luke 16:19-31. I heard my grandfather sing a version of this song but learned it only years later from Bronson's version 10: "'Lazarus' Sharp MSS., 3366/2464. Also in Sharp and Karpeles, I932, II, p. 29(A). Sung by Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Coates, at Flag Pond, Tenn., September 1, 1916. a D/M (nearly pi squared) tune." Bronson (Vol. II, p. 17) writes: "CHILD NO. 56: As Child's note informs us, something on the order of this ballad was in print in early Elizabethan times, and seventy-five years later was still matter for common allusion as 'the merry ballad of Diverus and Lazarus.' No early text survived, how ever, and Child had to resort to nineteenth-century reprinting: of eighteenth-century broadsides for his copy."

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