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Thread #130508 Message #2944499
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Jul-10 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: St. Helena Island Spirituals Permathread
Subject: Room Enough in de Hebben
102. Room Enough in de Hebben
1 Oh dere's room enough Oh dere's room enough dere's room enough in de heben I know dere's room enough Oh dere's room enough I cyan' stay behind.
Chorus- I cyan' stay behind my Lawd I cyan' stay behind I cyan' stay behind my Lawd I cyan' stay behind.
2 Oh de lillies bloom Oh de lillies bloom De lillies bloom in heben I know Oh de lillies bloom I cyan' stay behind. 3 Oh de roses bloom in de heben I know, etc. I cyan' stay behind. 4 Oh de Angels sing in de heben I know, etc. I cyan' stay behind.
"Note:- In the 1867 Edition of the Slave Songs of the U. S. the spiritual appears the reverse order of the above arrangement."
Plenty Good Room in John W. Work, edit., 1940, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, has completely different verses; not the same message (Not found in John Wesley Work, 1915, Folk Song of the American Negro as listed in the Cleveland Index).