Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 01:31 PM

Richie, they are the same, but some printings have left out some of the 128. One will have to use Masato's links for the music, or buy a copy. I think those linked by Masato are complete, but I haven't checked thoroughly.
Joe says continue these posts; Jack Campin also will be posting some.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:17 AM

The late great Adrian Mitchell left an unperformed play about the Jubilee Singers, which is due for a radio performance on BBC Radio 3(?) sometime this year I think. Should be good!

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Richie
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 01:36 AM

Amos,

I think "A Little More Faith" is by Rev. Gary Davis. If you know the complete lyrics, please post.

Q- actually all the lyrics at my site are there for A-B except "Happy New Year" which will appear in my H titles some day.

Several of the Jubilee songs in the link I posts are different. I'm not sure how many, I'll try and figure it out and post those.

Seems like the songs posted by Masato in the different editions are the same. Anyone see any different songs?

Thanks for posting these.

Richie

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 09:50 PM

The 1880 revised edition has the songs I am posting, but I assume they are all the same.

Thanks, Masato.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 09:46 PM

See also G.D. Pike, The Jubilee Singers: and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1873). Jubilee songs are on pp. 161ff.

Subject: Children, You'll Be Called On
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 09:37 PM

No. 16. Children, You'll Be Called On

1
Children, you'll be called on
To march in the field of battle,
When this warfare'll be ended,
Hallelu.
2
Preachers, you'll be called on
To march in the field etc.
3
Sinners, you'll be called on
To march in the field etc.
4
Seekers, you'll be called on
To march in the field etc.
5
Christians, you'll be called on
To march in the field etc.

Chorus:
When this warfare'll be ended,
I'm a soldier of the jubilee,
This warfare'll be ended,
I'm a soldier of the cross.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 09:26 PM

These editions are available online from the Internet Archive:

J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers: with Their Songs, 7th edition (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877)

J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers: with Their Songs, revised edition (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1880)

J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers: with Their Songs, revised edition (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881)

J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers Including Their Songs, with Supplement by F.J. Loudin (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1903)

Subject: Bright Sparkles in the Churchyard
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 08:48 PM

No. 105. Bright Sparkles in the Churchyard
As sung by the "Hampton Students."

May the Lord, He will be glad of me,
May the Lord, He will be glad of me,
May the Lord, He will be glad of me,
In the heaven He'll rejoice.

In the heaven once,
In the heaven twice,
In the heaven he'll rejoice.
In the heaven once,
In the heaven twice,
In the heaven he'll rejoice.

Duo- Soprano and Tenor.
Bright sparkles in the churchyard
Give light unto the tomb,

Trio- 1st and 2nd Soprano and Alto.
Bright summer, Spring's over,
Sweet flowers in their bloom.

Quartette.
Bright sparkles in the churchyard,
Give light unto the tomb.
Bright summer, Spring's over,
Sweet flowers in their bloom.

Tutti.
My mother once, my mother twice,
my mother, she'll rejoice;
In the heaven once,
In the heaven twice,
In the heaven she'll rejoice.

Mother, rock me in the cradle all the day .... all the day,
Mother, rock me in the cradle all the day .... all the day,
Mother, rock me in the cradle all the day .... all the day,
Mother, rock me in the cradle all the day .... all the day,

Quartette
All the day          all the day
          all the day          all the day
Oh, rock me in the cradle all the day ....
all the day            all the day
            all the day            all the day

Oh, mother, don't you love your darling child,
Oh, rock me in the cradle all the day
Etc.

You may lay me down to sleep, my mother dear,
Diminuendo
Oh, rock me in the cradle all the day ....
                                  all the day.

(Subject to editing). Rather complete musical score.

Subject: Benediction
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 08:18 PM

No. 128. Benediction
As sung by the Jubilee Singers.
T. F. Seward

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee,
The Lord make his face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, ....
and give thee peace.
Amen.

Subject: Been a Listening
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 08:13 PM

No. 20. Been a Listening

Chorus:
Been a listening all the night long,
Been a listening all the night long,
Been a listening all the night long,
To hear some sinner pray.

1
Some say that John the Baptist
was nothing but a Jew,
But the Holy Bible tells us
he was a preacher too.
2
Go read the third of Matthew,
And read th chapter thro',
It is the guide for Christians,
and tells them what to do.

4/4

Subject: Angels Waiting at the Door
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 08:04 PM

No. 70. Angels Waiting at the Door

1
My sister's took her flight and gone home,
And the angel's waiting at the door.
My sister's took her flight and gone home,
And the angel's waiting at the door.

Chorus:
Tell all my father's children,
Don't you grieve for me,
Tell all my father's children,
Don't you grieve for me.

2
She has laid down her cross and gone home,
And the angel's waiting at the door.
She &
cho.
3
She has taken up her crown and gone home,
And the angel's waiting at the door.
She &
cho.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Amos
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 06:03 PM

I learned A Little More Faith listening to Blind Lemon play it; but I only remember one verse:

Talk about me
As much as you please
I want a little more faith in
Jesus
Talk about me
Down on my knees
I want a little more faith in
Jesus

He plays it as a raggy number with his infallible steady bass thumb driving the song along.


A

Subject: Anchor in the Lord
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 05:05 PM

No. 99. Anchor in the Lord

Chorus:
Anchor, believer, anchor, anchor in the Lord,
Throw your anchor any way, anchor in the Lord.
1
Throw it to my dear mother's door,
Anchor in the Lord.
Throw it to my dear mother's door,
Anchor in the Lord.
2
Throw it to my dear father's door,
Anchor in the Lord.
Throw it to my dear father's door,
Anchor in the Lord.
3
Throw it to my dear sister's door,
Anchor in the Lord.
Throw it to my dear sister's door,
Anchor in the Lord.

Subject: A Little More Faith in Jesus
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 04:59 PM

No. 60. A Little More Faith in Jesus

Chorus:
All I want,
All I want,
All I want is a little more faith in Jesus.
1
Whenever we meet you here we say,
A little more faith in Jesus,
Pray what's the order of the day?
A little more faith in Jesus.
2
I tell you now as I told you before,
A little more faith in Jesus,
To the promised land I'm bound to go,
A little more faith in Jesus.
Cho.
3
Oh! Hallelujah to the lamb,
A little more faith in Jesus,
The Lord is on the giving hand,
A little more faith in Jesus.
4
I do believe without a doubt,
A little more faith in Jesus,
That Christians have a right to shout,
A little more faith in Jesus.
Cho.
5
Shout, you children, shout, you're free,
A little more faith in Jesus,
For Christ has bought this liberty,
A little more faith in Jesus.
Cho.

Subject: Happy New Year
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 04:46 PM

No. 92. A Happy New Year

Chorus:
What a happy new year,
What a Happy new year,
What a happy, what a happy, what a happy new year.
1
I'm running thro' grace
To that happy place;
Thro' grace I'm determined
To see my Lord's face.
2
One thing I do find,
I'll keep it in mind,
He won't live in glory
And leave me behind.
3
O sinner, believe
Christ will you receive,
For all things are ready,
And you stand in need.

Subject: A Great Camp-meeting in the Promised Land
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 04:38 PM

Marsh, alphabetical listings;

No. 114. A Great Camp-meeting in the Promised Land
From "Hampton and its students:" by per.

Chorus:
Don't you get weary,
There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land.
Going to mourn and never tire,.....
Mourn and never tire,
Mourn and never tire,
There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land.
1
Oh, walk together, children,
Don't you get weary,
Walk together, children,
Don't you get weary,
Walk together, children,
Cho.
2
Oh, talk together, children,
Don't you get weary,
Talk together, children,
Don't you get weary,
Talk together, children,
Cho.
3
Oh sing together children,
Don't you get weary,
Sing together, children,
Don't you get weary,
Sing together, children,
Cho.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 03:07 PM

Richie, your A-B list has some from the original singers, and some from later Jubilee groups. Incomplete for the early songs.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 03:03 PM

Access to Gutenberg book "forbidden." Google has preempted(?). Nasty people!

I have posted (and others have too) several of the songs, some in the last few days, but I would suggest that all be put in this thread in any case. I think Joe wouldn't object to the duplication, and looking them up would be simpler.

Any volunteers besides Jack Campin and myself? Each taking a portion of the list. No musical scores, but most are in the partial book linked by Richie.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 02:54 PM

Sorry, I should have checked- the copy I linked is badly done and NO music. I will look for another- should be online.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 02:50 PM

That link:
Story Jubilee

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 02:47 PM

Richie, the book you link at 11:00 PM is incomplete (Those listed in black in the index are not included).

The complete edition by Marsh is online:

http://www.archive.org/details/storyofjubileesi00mars

Copies of Marsh, and Pike, are reasonable in used book lists; so many thousands were printed.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:30 AM

Folks, I will reference this thread in the Spirituals permathread, and then index into that the songs you post here, when you finish your project. Can someone drop me a PM when that's ready?

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Richie
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 11:04 PM

The A-B songs with notes are here:

http://bluegrassmessengers.com.temp.realssl.com/traditional-and-public-domain-gospel-a-b.aspx

Richie

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Richie
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 11:00 PM

Hi,

Maybe someone can tell me what edition this is:

http://books.google.com/books?id=_BsaNlIjiXUC&pg=PP7&lpg=PP6&vq=130&dq=Live+Humble+negro&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

Waht about other editions? How many are there? What differneces are there?

Richie

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 10:17 PM

Hmmm. I think in general when you're posting a number of songs from a hymnal, it's best to put them all in one thread. If you remember, put the title of the song in the title of the message. If you forget, a volunteer will most likely change it for you.
If there's need to study a particular song and post several versions of it, then it would make sense to have a separate thread for a song (but I think I'd still post a copy in the thread from that songbook if you're posting all the songs from a book. You know, like we did for the John A. Stone songs.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 09:46 PM

It would be nice to have all 128 in Mudcat.
Perhaps each should have its own thread, or join other versions of the same spiritual in a single thread.

Some already have been posted; e. g., Jim Dixon posted He's the Lily of the Valley in thread 120649 (taken from an earlier printing, Pike, 1870s, but identical).

(A different hymn, Lily of the Valley was linked in thread 54116, words Charles W. Fry 1881, music Will S. Hays, c. 1871).

The two should not be confused.

Joe might want to comment.

Subject: RE: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 08:19 PM

I've got a copy of this book so I guess I could help out with transcribing some of it.

Subject: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 05:22 PM

Jubilee Songs

A great Camp-meeting in the promised land
A Happy New Year
A little more faith in Jesus
Anchor in the Lord
Angels Waiting at the door

Been a listening
Benediction
Bright sparkles in the Churchyard

Children, you'll be called on
Children, we all shall be free
Chilly Water
Come, all of God's children
Come down, angels
Come, let us all go down

Deep River
Did not old Pharoah get lost?
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
Don't you grieve after me
Down by the River

Farewell, my brother
From every grave-yard

Gabriel's Trumpet's going to blow
Getting ready to die
Gideon's Band
Give me Jesus
Go down Moses
Go, chain the lion down
Good-bye, Brothers
Good news, the chariot's coming
Good old Chariot
Grace
Gwine to ride up in the Chariot

Hail! Hail!
Hard trials
He arose
He rose from the dead
He's the Lily of the Valley

I am going to die no more
I ain't got weary yet
I know that my Redeemer lives
I'll hear the trumpet sound
I'm a rolling
I'm a travelling to the grave
I'm going to live with Jesus
I'm going to sing all the way
I'm so glad (no. 32)
I'm so glad (no. 107)
I'm troubled in mind
I want to be ready; or, walk in Jerusalem just like John
In Bright Mansions above
Inching along
In the River of Jordan
In that great getting-up morning
I've been in the storm so long
I've been redeemed
I've just come from the Fountain

John Brown's Body
Judgement-day is rolling round
Judgement will find you so

Keep me from sinking down
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning

Listen to the angels
Love feast in Heaven
Lord, I wish I had a come
Lord's Prayer

Many thousand gone
March on
Mary and Martha
Move along
My good Lord's been here
My Lord, what a mourning
My Lord's writing all the time
My ship is on the ocean
My way's cloudy
Nobody knows the trouble I see
Now we take this feeble body

Oh! holy Lord
Oh, Brothers are you getting ready?
Oh, give me the wings
Oh, make a-me holy
Oh, wasn't that a wide river
Oh, yes! Oh, yes!
Old ship of Zion
O redeemed
O! Sinner Man

Peter, go ring them bells
Prepare us
Reign, Master Jesus
Reign, O reign
Ride on, King Jesus
Rise and Shine
Rise, Mourners
Rise, shine, for thy light is a-coming
Roll, Jordan, roll
Room enough
Run to Jesus

Save me, Lord, save me
Shine, shine (no. 28)
Shine, shine (no. 98)
Sweet Canaan
Show me the way
Some of these mornings
Steal away
Swing low, sweet Chariot

'Tis Jordan's River
The General Roll
The Gospel train
The Rocks and the Mountains
The Angels changed my Name
There's a meeting here tonight
The Ten Virgins
The work's being done
They led my Lord away
This Old Time religion
Turn back Pharoah's army

Wait a little while
Way over Jordan
We are almost home
We are climbing the hills of Zion
We'll die in the Field
We'll overtake the Army
We'll stand the Storm
We shall walk thro' the valley
What kind of shoes are you going to wear
When Moses smote the water
When shall I get there
Wrestling Jacob

Zion's Children

All with musical scores. J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs. 1880s, Houghton Mifflin. Songs appear in several editions, USA and UK, 1870s-1880s.

Joe, if you wish to combine in another thread, OK. This is an edited PermaThread, moderated by Q. Feel free to post here, but note that we reserve the right to edit or delete all messages.

-Joe Offer-