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Subject: Lyr Add: BY AND BY From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:29 PM BY AND BY Oh, by an' by, oh, by an' by, We gwine have a good time, by an' by. Oh, by an' by, oh, by an' by, We gwine have a good time, a good time by an' by. When I get up in de heaben, All my work is done, Arguin' with de Father, chattin' with de Son, We gwine have a good time, a good time by an' by. Annie Holmes, Murells Inlet, SC. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Click on Links at top of page and go to Lomax Collection. Select audio subject go to Spirituals for index of titles. @religion @gospel @Spirituals |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: masato sakurai Date: 29 Nov 01 - 10:47 AM If my memory is correct, Janie Hunter sang this song, clapping her hands, in the video Alan Lomax's American Patchwork: Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old (VEST13080; formerly PBS Home Video). ~Masato |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WAY BY AND BY From: masato sakurai Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:57 AM Janie's version is this (no title is given).
Way by an' by,
Well, no more cotton pickin',
Well, no more catch the crab,
Well, no more plow the mule,
Well, no more walk the road,
Well, no more hard times,
Way by an' by,
Good time, good time, ~Masato |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WAY BYE AND BYE From: masato sakurai Date: 01 Dec 01 - 01:25 AM Another version, from St. Helena Island (quoted in Peters, Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual, p. 104):
WAY BYE AND BYE
Way bye and bye,
I'm goin' to meet my brother there,
I'm goin' to meet my father there.
"Way Bye and Bye" was recorded in 1954 by the Silvertone Singers of Cincinnati, reissued on V.A., The Best of Excello Gospel: The Golden Era of the 1950s (Ace CDCHD 687). ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 08 Dec 01 - 07:35 PM BY AND BY Cho. O by and by, by and by, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. O by and by, by and by, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. I know my robe goin' to fit me well, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load, For I tried it on at the gates of Hell, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. Cho. O hell is a deep and dark despair, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load, So stop, poor sinner, and don't go there, I'm goin to lay down this heavy load. Cho. O when I get to heav'n goin' to sing and shout, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. For there's no one there for to turn me out, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. Cho. O Christians, can't you rise and tell, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load, That Jesus hath done all things well, I'm goin' to lay down this heavy load. Cho. Dett, R. N., 1927, "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro," transcribed from the singing of the Hampton students, with music, p. 124-125. Also in Work and Johnson and Johnson I. There are variants and more than one song is titled By and By (Bye and Bye). @religion @spiritual |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME From: masato sakurai Date: 04 May 02 - 02:58 AM WE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME (Sung by Alma Robinson, who said "I learned this from Julia Fields, an early memeber of Saint Mark's Church")
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Gonna meet King Jesus over there,
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(Source: Byron Arnold, Folksongs of Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1950, p. 161; with music) ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 04 May 02 - 07:04 AM The Gospel Messengers do a different version of this song. If I have the time today, I'll post the words. I don't sing the lead on this, and we haven't sung it in about three years, so it will take a little resurrecting to pull it out of my memory.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: Stewie Date: 04 May 02 - 08:17 PM There is also Washington Phillips' 'A Mother's Last Word to her Daughter' - a transcription from a Critton Hollow String Band recording has been posted to the forum: It was recorded by Phillips in 1929. It had been recorded first by another Texan, the great Arizona Dranes, in 1926 under the title 'Bye and Bye We're Going to See the King'. Blind Willie Johnson recorded a version in New Orleans one week after Phillips. Evidently, it was a great favorite with vocal groups and recorded by many, including the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet and the Dunham Jubilee Singers. Is there any connection with the wren ritual songs in England, Ireland etc? --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 04 May 02 - 10:13 PM Chorus: By and by, by and by When we reach, that home up in the sky The wicked shall cease their troublin' And the weary shall be at rest Every day be Sunday, by and by
When I reach that city, that city so bright and fair
There's another verse, too. It will come to me... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: masato sakurai Date: 05 May 02 - 09:36 AM Jerry, I think that is a different song. Probably a version of "Ev'ry Day'll Be Sunday" in John W. Work's American Negro Songs (Dover, p. 213), and recorded by Dorothy Love Coates as "Every Day Will Be Sunday (By and By)." ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: By and By From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 05 May 02 - 12:50 PM You're right, Masato. That's a characteristic of black gospel... some phrases are used in many different songs. You could add all the variations on We'll Understand It Better, By & By. Jerry |
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