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20 Sep 01 - 06:18 PM (#555212) Subject: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: wysiwyg See also: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Book Of American Negro Spirituals I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Books Of American Negro Spirituals I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Folk Songs Of North America I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Folk Songs Of The American Negro I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Let's All Sing I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Songs Of Southern Colleges & Old Southern Melodies I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, American Negro Songs I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Songs Of Zion (Nix) I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Lift Every Voice And Sing Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Hall Johnson (Choral Sheet Music) ========================================================
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20 Sep 01 - 08:17 PM (#555299) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: Charley Noble Must be the basis for "The Crash on the Highway" song that them old time bluegrass folks used to sing. |
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20 Sep 01 - 08:58 PM (#555321) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: wysiwyg Charley, did you look to see if that one is posted here anywhere, or in DT? If not, could you add it in this thread? Thanks! ~S~ |
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20 Sep 01 - 09:51 PM (#555342) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: masato sakurai Other title variants are "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" (this seems to me to be the most widely used, as shown in WYSIWYS's first message above), "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray," and "Lord, I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pay." The spelling is sometimes (but not often) "Heah" instead of "Hear." Masato
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20 Sep 01 - 11:43 PM (#555467) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: toadfrog "Wreck on the Highway" is here. |
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20 Sep 01 - 11:47 PM (#555472) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: wysiwyg Thanks tf. Good to have you in on this. See the Permathread on them yet? Project Control: ~S~ |
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18 Oct 01 - 08:01 PM (#575153) Subject: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) The arrangement is somewhat different in J. W. Johnson, The Book of American Negro Spirituals. "I couldn't hear nobody pray" is sung between each line of a verse. Much the same is given in Work, American Negro Songs and Spirituals. Work notes that the leader starts off with "O Lord! And I couldn't hear nobody pray;" then may vary the O Lord! with other interjections. He suggests that the 3rd verse may be sung slowly and softly but the refrain is gone into "a tempo." According to Johnson, the song is to be sung "moderately slow (with religious devotion)." The verses as arranged by R. Johnson are given below. Verses and refrain are not sharply separated in the singing. An extra note is placed at the beginning of the 2nd and 4th lines of each verse in the Johnson version. I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY An' I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord. I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord. O 'way down yonder by myself An' I couldn't hear nobody pray. In de valley, I couldn't hear nobody pray. On a my knees, I couldn't hear nobody pray. Wid my burden, I couldn't hear nobody pray. An' a my Savior, I couldn't hear nobody pray, O, Lord, Refrain An' I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord. I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord O way down yonder by myself An' I couldn't hear nobody pray, Chilly water, I couldn't hear nobody pray, In-a de Jordan, I couldn't hear nobody pray, Crossin' over, I couldn't hear nobody pray In-a to Canaan, I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord. Hallelujah! I couldn't hear nobody pray. Troubles am over, I couldn't hear nobody pray In de Kingdom, I couldn't hear nobody pray, Wid a my Jesus, I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord. Refrain An' I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord I couldn't hear nobody pray, O Lord O 'way down yonder by myself An' I couldn't hear nobody pray.
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19 Oct 01 - 04:56 PM (#575834) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: wildlone I have found this site while looking for songs Click here you might have seen it allready if so sorry BTW some of the files take a long time to open but if you keep paging down you will find lyrics and music. dave |
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19 Oct 01 - 05:15 PM (#575850) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: DougR Charley, that was my immediate thought when I saw the thread posted. I though for sure WYSYetc. was referring to the old Roy Acuff song, "Wreck on the Highway." I wasn't familiar with the spiritual. DougR |
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19 Oct 01 - 07:59 PM (#575977) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) wildlone, it is a good one. There are others in the spirituals permathread. |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM (#576094) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: GUEST,BigDaddy Sorry, I thought this was a thread about a noisy pub I used to play at..."I couldn't hear nobody play." |
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21 Oct 01 - 02:01 PM (#576804) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: AND I COULDN'T HEAR NOBODY PRAY From: Jerry Rasmussen Hi, Susan:''I don't know that I have this in a book, butI have a recording of it by the Fairfield Four I can send you... |