A black preacher with caricatured enormous lips greets his parishioners as he sings the song for which the short is named.

[5] Freleng introduces the cartoon's protagonist, Nicodemus, when Mammy Two-Shoes finds him playing dice.

The boss orders some demons to "give 'em the works", but Nicodemus wakes to find the prods of pitchforks are nothing but the pecks of chickens in the land of the living.

Boxoffice (Aug 22, 1936): "When a cartoon arouses enthusiasm in a projection room of hard-boiled critics, it denotes a hit.

The shiftless darky doesn't want to go to church on Sunday, escapes from his wife, runs away, is knocked out chasing a chicken, dreams he is in Hell where he is made the ball in a bagatelle (pinball) game with other things happening to him.