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Thread #49613   Message #749586
Posted By: masato sakurai
17-Jul-02 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: There's a Meeting Here Tonight
Subject: RE: There is a Meetin Here Tonight
"There's A Meetin' Here Tonight" by Joe & Eddie (only the first verse and chorus is HERE) is:

Breakin' up big rocks on the chain gang,
Breakin' rocks and soothin' my time.
Breakin' up big rocks on the chain gang,
Oh Lord I committed a crime.
Hold it steady right there while I hit it
I reckon that ought to get it.
Been workin', I been workin',
And I still got so terrible long to go.

Bob Gibson's "There's a Meeting Here Tonight" can be heard HERE.

Sheet music for "Dar's a meeting here tonight" by Pete Devonear (Boston: John F. Perry & Co., 1875):

First Line: If I had a wife and a little baby, Dar's a meeting here tonight
First Line of Chorus: Git yer ready, Dar's a meeting here tonight

is at Levy (Click here); and also at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress).

~Masato