Lyr Add: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone

Subject: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 01:46 PM

ALL DE FRIEND I HAD IS DEAD AND GONE

Cho.
All de friend I had, all de friend I had,
All de friend I had is dead and gone.

Gwine to de graveyard, gwine to de graveyard,
All de friend I had is dead and gone.
Cho.
My po' mother died a-shoutin',
All de friend I had is dead an' gone.

Gwine to de graveyard, etc.

Cho.
Weepin' Mary, weep no longer,
All de friend I had is dead an' gone.
Cho.

Jane McDonald (Aunt Mollie), near Livingston, AL. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Click on Links at top of page and go to Lomax Collection for notes and sound.
@religion @spiritual @gospel

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone
From: Arbuthnot
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:09 PM

Related to DELIA and ALL THE FRIENDS I EVER HAD IS GONE

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:31 PM

Hi Arbuthnot-- have you seen the long list of posted spirituals in the African American Spirituals Permathread? Maybe you will recongnize a few more related to later blues tunes. There's even a thread linked in theat Permathread, for Blues Related to Spirituals. Go get 'em! *G*

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:46 PM

Looking for All the friends I ever had is gone- any recordings? Relationship to Delia's Gone are pretty nebulous.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: All De Friend I Had Is Dead And Gone
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 09:34 PM

This is also recorded in Solomon, Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection (p. 41; words only). The words are substantially the same, though the stanzas 2 and 3 are reversed in order. The note says, "Dock Reed's version appears both on the Library of Congress recordings and the Courlander series." The latter, I think, is "Dead and Gone" (sung by Vera Hall & Dock Reed, in 1950) on Folkways FE4418, FA2691 (Gospel Records 1943-1969, vol. 1, p. 335), which I haven't. Songs titled "All the Friends I Got Is Gone" by Blind Jesse Harris and "Dead and Gone" by Elsie Jenkins were both recorded in 1937 for the Library of Congress, but seem to be unissued (Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, Oxford).

~Masato