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Thread #130785   Message #2945181
Posted By: wysiwyg
14-Jul-10 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: Good Night, The Lord's Coming
Subject: RE: Good Night, The Lord's Coming
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers did a version: http://www.tescoentertainment.com/store/mp3/the-pilgrim-jubilee-singers--goodnight-the-lords-coming/2%3A5427109/
Spirituals were sometimes kn own as "jubilees.)

Another video version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqw_Zhu8zE

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The verse order varies by version.... Here's one version of lyrics I found, corrected for the call/response pattern I heard:

1. Well, goodnight, the Lord's coming
Goodnight, the Lord's coming
Goodnight, the Lord's coming
Refrain: Knocking at the door, (the) door flew open
And the love come(s) streaming down down
Down, Lord, down


2. Well, they robed him in a-white linen

3. Well, Joseph bared (beared?) (bathed?) (begged!) his body

4. Well, they found him in a-Gethsemane

5. Well they buried him in (a-God's/that city???) (not in a gas station, LOL!)

To follow Scripture, the verse order would be: they FOUND him, Joseph of Arimathea BEGGED (for) him (his corpse), ROBED him (in the shroud), BURIED him, and then more verses would probably have followed about the Resurrection. The "door" of course would be the stone an angel rolled away. (The love that streamed out WAS the resurrection.)

~Susan