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Thread #19551   Message #2545672
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Jan-09 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
Subject: RE: Gospel Origin-Civil Rights & Labor Songs
"Woke Up This Morning" always seems to have been sung with variants, as needed or desired.
This copied from "Sing Out" as reprinted in "Rise Up Singing" (Leaving out chords).

WOKE UP THIS MORNING

1. Woke up this morning with my mind (my mind it was) stayed on freedom (3x)
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah!

(bridge) Walk (6x) with my mind on freedom (repeat)
-Ah - walk walk walk walk

2. Ain't no harm to keep your mind (in keepin' it) stayed on freedom (3x)
Hallelu ...

3. Walkin' & talkin' with my mind ...
4. Singin' & prayin' with my mind ...

Rev. Osby of Aurora, IL (addl. lyrics Robert Zellner)
© 1963, 1966 Fall River Music Inc. Al rights reserved. Used by permission.-
In SO! 12-5 & Reprints #6. In SFF We Shall Overcome, S That Changed the World, FS EncyVI. On "Trav On w/the Weavers" & their "Reunion 1963."


Ed. Peter Blood & Annie Patterson, 1988, 1992, © "Rise Up Singing, the Group-Singing Song Book." A Sing Out Publication- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.