GOIN' TO SHOUT ALL OVER GOD'S HEAV'N

Cho.
*Heav-n, heav'n,
Ev'ry-body talkin' 'bout heav'n ain't goin' there,
Heav'n, heav'n,
Goin' to shout all over God's heav'n, heav'n,
Goin' shout all over God's heav'n.

I've got a robe, you've got a robe,
All of God's children got a robe,
When I get to heaven goin' to put on my robe,
Goin' to shout all over God's heaven.
Cho.
I've got a crown, you've got a crown,
All God'd children got a crown,
When I get to Heaven goin' to put on my crown,
Goin' to shout all over God's heaven.
Cho.
I've got a shoes, you've got a shoes,
All God's children got a shoes,
When I get to heaven goin' to put on my shoes,
Goin' to walk all over God's heaven.
Cho.
I've got a harp, you've got a harp,
All God's children got a harp,
When I get to heaven goin' to **play on my harp,
Goin' to play all over God's heaven.
Cho.
I've got a song, you've got a song,
All of God's children got a song,
When I get to heaven goin' to sing a new song,
Goin' to sing all over God's heaven.

*Last syllable hummed rather than pronounced. Subject of verse sometimes carried over into chorus. **Take up my harp, in Johnson and Johnson.
R. N. Dett, Religious Folk Songs of the Negro, p. 126-127. Also in earlier Hampton Institute editions prefaced by H. W. Ludlow and by R. R. Moton but not in Fenner 1874.
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ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS

(Different verse only)
I got-a wings, you got-a wings,
All God's chillun got-a wings,
When I get to heab'n goin' to put on my wings,
I'm goin' to fly all over God's heab'n, heab'n,
Ev'ry body talkin' 'bout heab'n ain't goin' dere,
Heab'n, heab'n,
I'm goin' to fly all over God's heab'n.

Other differences minor. Johnson and Johnson, The Books of American Negro Spirituals, I p. 71.

Everybody Talkin' About Heaven Ain't Gwine There.
Title of version collected by John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; nothing new.
Other versions have been collected and may have verses worth posting.
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