Lyr Add: Jordan Deep and Jordan Wide

Subject: Lyr Add: JORDAN DEEP AND JORDAN WIDE
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 08:36 PM

JORDAN DEEP AND JORDAN WIDE
(I'm Gwine Home On the Morning Train*)
Baptizing song

I'm gwine home on the mornin' train,
Well, I'm gwine home on the mornin' train,
I'm gwine home on the mornin' train,
Everybody can hear me sing.

Cho.
All my sins are taken away, taken away.

Sister Mary, she wore three links of chain (3 times)
Every link was Jesus' name.
Cho.
Tallest tree in Paradise, (3 times)
Christians call it the tree of Life,
Cho. (twice)
All my sins are taken away, taken away.

Jordan deep and Jordan wide (3 times)
Chill my body but not my soul.
Cho.
I bin to the pool and bin baptized (3 times)
Had-a you bin there, you'd a-shouted,
Cho.
All of my sins been taken away, taken away, (3 times)
Oh Glory Hallelujah!
Cho.

Dock Reed, Jesse Allison, Hettie Godfrey, Livinston, AL.
*Title in Index; Jordan Deep... main title in notes. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Click Links at top of page and go to Lomax Collection for notes and sound.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jordan Deep and Jordan Wide
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 02:24 AM

Hmmm. Compare this song with Morning Train from one of the early Peter, Paul and Mary albums.
-Joe Offer-

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Thread #62684   Message #1015202

Posted By: Jim Dixon

09-Sep-03 - 12:22 AM

Thread Name: Lyr Req: I'm on my way to the kingdom land

Subject: ADD: Monring Train (Peter Paul & Mary)

Peter, Paul and Mary sang this on their second album, "Moving", 1963. I'm surprised it doesn't seem to be posted anywhere. It was one of their better songs.

http://lyrics.net.ua/song/43730

MORNING TRAIN

I'm goin' home on the morning train.
I'm goin' home on the morning train.
I'm goin' home on the morning train.
If you don't see me, you can hear me singing.
All my sins been taken away, taken away.

Sister Mary wore three links of chain.
Sister Mary wore three links of chain.
Sister Mary wore three links of chain.
On each link was my Jesus name.
All my sins been taken away, taken away.

I'm on my way to the freedom land.
I'm on my way to the freedom land.
I'm on my way to the freedom land.
Lord God Almighty, hold my hand.
All my sins been taken away, taken away.

Well I don't know but I been told,
Streets in heaven paved in gold.
Keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
Hold on, hold on, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.

The devil he has a slippery shoe,
And if you don't watch out he'll slip it on you.
Keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
Hold on, hold on, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.

I'm goin' home on the morning train.
I'm goin' home on the morning train.
I'm goin' home on the morning train.
If you don't see me, you can hear me singing.
All my sins been taken away, taken away.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jordan Deep and Jordan Wide
From: masato sakurai
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 03:53 AM

This seems to have been a widely known song (with variations) in Alabama, Florida and other states. Newman I. White (American Nebgro Folk-Songs, 1928, pp. 60-62) collected 8 versions (from Ala. & Fla.) under the headings of SIS MARY WORE THREE LINKS OF CHAIN and ALL MY SINS BEEN TAKEN AWAY. Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson (The Negro and His Songs, 1925, pp. 60-63) says of ALL MY SINS DONE TAKEN AWAY that this was a "very popular song," quoting a number of stanzas from different versions. Erskine Peters (Lyrics of the Afro-American Spirituals, Greenwood, 1993, p. 206) quotes a version of ALL MY SINS ARE TAKEN AWAY, which is from McIlhenny's Befo' De War Spirituals (1933). ALL MY SINS BEEN TAKEN AWAY ("Mary Wore Three Silver Chain") is in Alton C. Morris's Folksongs of Florida (University of Florida Press, 1950, 1990, pp. 168-9; with music).

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See also The Traditional Ballad Index : Mary Wore Three Links of Chain.

Mary Wore Three Links of Chain

DESCRIPTION: Floating religious verses with the chorus, "All my sins been taken away, taken away." Sample verses: "Mary wore three links of chain (x3), Ev'ry link bearing Jesus's name." "I don't know but I've been told (x3) Streets of heaven are paved with gold."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible nonballad sin floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
BrownIII 543, "Mary Wore Three Links of Chain" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Sandburg, pp. 474-475, "Mary Wore Three Links of Chain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5027
RECORDINGS:
George Herod, "Sister Mary Wore Three Lengths (Links) of Chain" (on MuSouth07)
Bradley Kincaid, "Mary Wore Three Links of Chain" (Supertone 9666, 1930)
Dock Reed, "I'm Going Home on the Morning Train" (on NFMAla5)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Mary Don't You Weep" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane" (lyrics)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
cf. "All Night Long" (floating verses)
NOTES: This is probably a religious adaption of "Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane." Since, however, it seems to circulate widely on its own, it gets its own listing.
I sure hope I remember that I split them.... - RBW
File: San474

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