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Thread #99510   Message #1985175
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Mar-07 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: This Old Time Religion (Spiritual/Gospel)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Time Religion (Old Gospel)
Songs of Zion, Cleveland and Nix, editors, Abington Press, Nashville, 1981, p. 89-90, score with optional base part by T. Jefferson Cleveland.
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OLE-TIME RELIGION

Gimme dat ole time religion, (3x)
It's good enough for me.

It was good for my ole father,...
It was good for my ole mother, ...
It was good for Paul and Silas, ...
Makes me love ev'rybody, ...
It is good when I'm in trouble, ...
It will do when I am dying, ...
It will take us all to heaven, ...

The same verses in the same order, and the same title, are found with the score in R. Nathaniel Dett, 1927, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as sung at Hampton Institute," p. 200. "Transcribed by the editor from the singing of the Hampton students led by Paige I. Lancaster. The score includes a 'Chorus of basses.'