31 Oct 01 - 10:19 PM (#583589) Subject: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) NEW BURYIN' GROUND Cho. Oh, come along, come along, let's go to buryin', (3 times) Way over, way over in de new buryin' ground. (whoof!) Sinners, don't you hear my Lord a-callin', (Whuff!) O sinners, don't you hear, hear my Lord a-callin', O sinners, don't you hear my Lord a-callin' Way over, over in de buryin' ground. (Whoo!) Oh, de hammer keep a-ringin',(Hoo!) ringin' on somebody's coffin, (3 times) Way over, (Come here!) over in de new buryin' ground. (Whuff!) Oh, de hearse keep a-rollin', rollin' somebody to the graveyard, (Come here, boy!) (3 times) Way over, (Water boy!), over in de new buryin' ground. De preacher keep a-preachin, preachin' somebody's fun'ral, etc. Sometimes I pray like, pray like my time ain't long, etc. Sometimes I feel like, feel like my time ain't long, etc. Sung by John Brown and group of convicts, State Prison, Raiford, Florida, who do a near professional job, with interjections. Coll. by John and Ruby Lomax, 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (classified as spiritual). Can be heard by selecting audio subject, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html @work @prison @religion @spiritual
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03 Nov 01 - 02:57 AM (#585227) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: masato sakurai According to Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943 (Oxford), 6 recordings were made before 1943: John Brown (see above), Phil Butler, New Zion Church Congregations, Shelby Gospel Four, Unidentified Singers and Groups, and Willie Williams. The following CDs are available:
(1) Shelby Gospel Four (on V.A., Carolina Gospel Quartets, Vol. 1 1938 - 1939, Documnet DOCD-5445) ~Masato
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03 Nov 01 - 09:04 AM (#585300) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) John and Ruby Lomax 1939 recorded two other groups singing New Buryin' Ground, both in the northwestern part of South Carolina. One refers to "buryin' in Newberry town", in that area; otherwise these differ little from the one reproduced above. |
13 Jan 02 - 09:03 PM (#627353) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Stewie It seems the Willie Williams Group version has a nod towards the 'Po' Lazarus' ballad with a stanza 'It must have been Lazarus that the people was buryin'' and another 'It must have been the captain that the people was buryin''. The tune used by Williams is not a million miles away from the 'Po Lazarus' one either. The 'Virginia Traditions' album cited above by Masato also has a version of 'Lazarus' by William Thompson and a group of 7 singers. This has a burying stanza which is unusual in the versions I have heard - they normally conclude with Lazarus being laid on the commissary counter or with his mother crying. This goes farther than the mother 'screamin' and a-cryin':
They buried ol' Lazarus (oh Lordy) In Virginia at least, there may have been a connection. --Stewie.
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13 Jan 02 - 09:48 PM (#627375) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Poor Lazarus is given in this thread Here A longer version, "Po' Laz'us" is in Lomax and Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs, 1934,p. 91-93. This "Negro bad man ballad" does not seem to be related to New Buryin' Ground in the versions that I have; one that couples them would be very interesting. |
13 Jan 02 - 09:51 PM (#627377) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Well, I'll try again. Here |
13 Jan 02 - 09:54 PM (#627382) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Sorcha I really thought I saw a link that said DT/forum already had this.............? Is this a different version? |
13 Jan 02 - 10:00 PM (#627385) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) My click (the 2nd one that worked) is to the Forum posting by Joe Offer of Poor Lazarus. The verse cited by Stewie is not in it, nor in the Lomax reference. I haven't heard the Willie Williams take on this one, so I don't know how close the two are. Perhaps Stewie will post the Williams version? |
14 Jan 02 - 01:04 AM (#627442) Subject: Lyr Add: NEW BURYING GROUND From: Stewie NEW BURYING GROUND Oh come on, come on, let's go to burying (x3) Way over, over in the new burying ground Oh hammer keep a-ringing on somebody's coffin (x3) Well over, over on the new burying ground Oh it must have been Lazarus that the people was buryin' (x3) Way over, over in the new burying ground Oh come on, come on, let's go to burying (x3) Way over, over in the new burying ground It must have been the captain that the people was buryin' (x3) Way over, over in the new burying ground Source: transcription of Willie Williams and Group 'Virginia Traditions: Virginia Work Songs' Global Music CD-1007 --Stewie. |
14 Jan 02 - 01:46 AM (#627457) Subject: Add: 'LAZARUS' From: Stewie Here is the Virginian work song version of 'Lazarus'. I am not certain of 'head' in stanza 3. 'Oh lordy' is sung by single voice.
LAZARUS --Stewie.
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14 Jan 02 - 04:36 AM (#627489) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: masato sakurai Thanks, Stewie. I've got the CD, but wasn't able to transcribe it. ~Masato |
14 Jan 02 - 06:04 AM (#627518) Subject: Lyr Add: NEW BURYING GROUND From: masato sakurai There's another song with the same title "New Burying Ground," among those collected with music by William E. Barton and published in 1899. I think it's worth posting here for comparison.
NEW BURYING GROUND
1-- O, my Lord, Good and kind,
Gwine to glory an'-a-honor! Praise Jesus!
2-- All along down by de watery shore,
Refrain.
3-- O, no, brethering, dat ain't all,--
Refrain.
4-- I went to meeting on a certain day,
Refrain.
5-- Yes, mysteree! Come and see!
Refrain.
6-- I went down by the tottery sho',
Refrain.
7-- Hit 'em wid de hammer cryin', "Sinner, repent!"
Refrain.
8-- Sing ole hymn at new buryin' ground,
Refrain.
(SOURCE: Bernard Katz, ed., The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in The United States (Arno/The New York Times, 1969, pp. 108-109). ~Masato
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12 Feb 02 - 02:00 PM (#648304) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: wysiwyg Above are indexed ~S~ |
12 Feb 02 - 03:18 PM (#648390) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Jerry Rasmussen My Group does New Burying Ground, which we learned from a recording by the Sensational Nightingales. The lyrics are:
Oh, I wonder can you hear, those church bells tollin'
I wonder can you see, those hearse wheels rollin'
They kept on rollin', 'till they carried my Father
And what about my Mother?
etc.
It sounds much better than it looks. It will be on the CD we're recording. Jerry |
12 Feb 02 - 03:33 PM (#648399) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: wysiwyg Thanks Jerry. If you add any more to this or other threads, that are Negro spirituals, or you suspect they are, or they were based on same.... could you list them for me in the Permathread? If they have a different title from the ones already posted in that thread? That way I can be sure they get indexed. ~Susan |
12 Feb 02 - 05:39 PM (#648514) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: Jerry Rasmussen Hi, Susan: I'd be glad to... don't know how. Tell me, and I'll add them to the Permathread list... Jerry |
02 Oct 07 - 08:25 PM (#2162431) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: NEW BURYIN' GROUND From: GUEST,giovanni Thanks for this, I have the recording from 1936 but could not understand certain things, now i do. One of the greatest songs ever sung! |
03 Oct 07 - 08:03 PM (#2163228) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Buryin' Ground From: Azizi Here's a link to a Youtube video that has different words than what is posted above. I'm not sure if it's the same song or not. But in any event, this video clip may be of interest to some folks reading this thread: Lonnie Donegan Chris Barber - Over the new burying ground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WK64SXvhps Added: March 03, 2007 ;From: bisonmik ** I was interested to see one of the musicians in that video played a form of a washboard known as a rub-board or frottoir. I believe this percussion instrument is most closely associated with Louisiana Zydeco music. I'm curious, is this instrument usually in Lonnie Donegan's band? |