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Thread #49613   Message #749457
Posted By: masato sakurai
17-Jul-02 - 01:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: There's a Meeting Here Tonight
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A MEETING HERE TONIGHT
Are you looking for this spiritual?

THERE'S A MEETING HERE TO-NIGHT (from Allen et al., Slave Songs of the United States, p. 9; with music):

1. I take my text in Mattew, and by de Revelation,
I know you by your garment,
Dere's a meeting here to-night.
Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh!/(Brudder Tony,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh!/(Sister Rina,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
I hope to meet again.

2 Brudder John was a writer, he write de laws of God;
Sister Mary say to brudder John, "Brudder John, don't write no more."
Dere's a meeting here to-night, Oh! (Brudder Sandy,)(bis)
Dere's a meeting here to-night,
I hope to meet again.

[Mrs. Bowen gives us the following beautiful variation, as sung in Charleston:]

I see brudder Moses yonder,
And I think I ought to know him,
For I know him by his garment,
He's a blessing here to-night;
He's a blessing here to-night,
He's a blessing here to-night,
And I think I ought to know him,
He's a blessing here tonight.

The following may be a more popular version:

THERE'S A MEETING HERE TONIGHT.

CHORUS: Get you ready, there's a meeting here tonight
Come along, there's a meeting here tonight
I know you by your daily walk,
There's a meeting here tonight

1. Camp meeting in the wilderness
There's a meeting here tonight
I know it's among the Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight

2. My father says it is the best
There's a meeting here tonight
To live and die a Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight

3. There's fire in the East, there's fire in the West
There's a meeting here tonight
I know it's among the Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight

~Masato