Lyr Req: A Little Talk with Jesus (Ernest Phipps)

Subject: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Dale Rose
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 03:03 AM

For some while now, I have been considering a website which gives additional information about some of the music that we discuss here, so consider this a test.

By punching up the link given, you will find the printed music, lyrics ~~ which I will also list here, real audio of the song, a picture of Ernest Phipps, and a link to the Cyber Hymnal for an interesting biography of Thoro Harris whose song book I recently found the music in. Some of us had tried to decipher the lyrics a while back, with practically no success. You see the lyrics and you go, "Oh, yeah, why couldn't I hear that?"

A Little Talk
by anon and arranged, Gospel Quintet Songs, Thoro Harris, Chicago, c. 1928

Though dark the night and clouds look black and stormy overhead,
And trials of almost every kind across my path are spread;
How soon I conquer all, As to the Lord I call,
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right.

chorus
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right,
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right,
In trials of ev'ry kind, Praise God I always find,
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right

When those who once were dearest friends Begin to persecute,
And those who once professed to love Have silent grown and mute;
I tell him all my grief, He quickly sends relief,
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right.

chorus twice (as in the Phipps version)

And thus by frequent little talks I gain the victory,
And march along with cheerful song, Enjoying the liberty;
With Jesus as my friend, I'll prove until the end,
A little talk with Jesus makes it right, all right.

chorus

OK, here is the link to the appropriate page at Good Old Songs (Quite an original name there, don't you think???) The site as a whole is a shambles, but this one page is pretty close to the way I want it.

Obviously, it was a bit of work, especially since it was the first time I had really tried to make a cohesive page. So I guess what I am saying is ~~ will such pages be of sufficient interest to warrant continuing the project on an irregular basis as time and resources permit? Suggestions are invited.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: GUEST,fox4zero
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 04:38 AM

If for nothing else, thanks a million for the lyric. I do own the CD and love to play it on the 5-string. Now I don't have to mumble the words I could't decypher. I would like other Phipps family discography Larry Parish

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 05:39 AM

Dale, you've been sending me things like this by e-mail for years, and they're always wonderful. It's time to make them available to the general public. You do great work.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: GUEST,Giac, not at home
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 09:08 AM

Once again, Dale, you astound me!

I read the blurb on Thoro Harris and the name rings a bell for some reason.

I like the page layout and links. You've done a lot of work.

Thanks for clarification of the words. Seems to me that one of the female singers was so strong that she overpowered the recording equipment. She must have been right up front. Couldn't dampen the enthusiasm at any rate.

I look forward to more such pages.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:34 AM

Dale--

aI MI, CARAMBA!!!!

How can I help?

Use me!

~S~

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:04 PM

Dale..I saw the Phipps family at the Smithsonian Festival maybe 25 years ago...this is a nice thing to find in a thread!///(I have a slide of a Phipps 'groupie'...a white-haired gentleman in a blue & white 'summer suit' who followed them around to every place they played...wasn't you, was it?..*smile*)

Subject: POST TO THIS THREAD!
From: Dale Rose
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:48 PM

Nooooooo, not me, no white hair 25 years ago! Never saw them, but I am wondering, did you maybe see the A L Phipps Family? They were friends of The Carter Family and played pretty much in their style. I have some of their recordings. I really was not aware that Ernest Phipps was around that recently. But then, I could be wrong ~~ I am every year or so.

To those who offered help, both here and in private messages: I am sure we can work something out, but not right away. I am leaving for Illinois early in the morning, and will not be back until next week sometime. I will get with you when I get back. It is to be an almost non stop feast of volleyball (Friday and Monday)and music at the Fort Kaskaskia Traditional Music Festival(Saturday and Sunday) with a Saturday evening trip to Kentucky Lake to hear more great music.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 11:07 PM

hmmm...all I 'distinctly' remember was Phipps Family...but it was 'sorta' Carter style...so you are probably right.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Dale Rose
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 10:40 AM

I just discovered an earlier but identical version in Gospel Song Messenger, Edited and Published by R. E. Winsett, East Chattanooga, Tenn., 1914. Even at that earlier date it was attributed to Anon. and Arranged.

Giac, perhaps the reason Thoro Harris sounds familiar is that in later years he lived in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he died in 1955. He was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. ~~ from the Cyber Hymnal.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 02:50 PM

Dale, do you know another southern gospel song with the same name? The chorus goes:

Now let us/Have a little talk with Jesus
Let us/Tell him all about our troubles
He will/Hear our faintest cry
And he will/Answer bye and bye
Now when you/See those little prayer wheels turnin'
And you know/A little fire is burnin'
You will/Find a little talk with Jesus makes it right/Makes it right.

Wish we had a Permathread on Gospel music!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Dale Rose
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 09:26 PM

It is in this thread, under the title Amer. Rural Classics from late July. It can be found with a forum search. Truth is, this thread should have been a part of that one anyway, since that is where it was originally requested. It is just that it took me so long to find the lyrics that I had sort of forgotten that is where it really should have been. Several of us had taken stabs at what the ladies (Minnie Phipps, Nora Bryley and A.G. Baker ~~ list courtesy of Stewie) were singing, but came up mostly empty ~~ lots of mumble, mumbles in our translations! That is where it stayed until I got the Thoro Harris book. Actually I had the Winsett book earlier, just didn't know it was in there.

Subject: RE: A Little Talk With Jesus, Ernest Phipps
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 10:43 PM

Dale, that's a great thread- don't know how I missed it. I've pasted a copy of the song. Hadn't seen the lyrics in 40 years! Now I can teach it to my gospel group. Thanks again.

Ebbie