Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index

Subject: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:44 PM

Dicho did a wonderful job of transcribing almost all the songs spirituals from the U.S. Library of Congress recordings of the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. I'll post the index in this thread. If you would like to discuss any of the songs, please do so in the thread for that song.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:45 PM

LOMAX AND LOMAX 1939 THREADID NUMBERS
Dec. 3, 2001

1. AIN’T NO HEAVEN ON DE COUNTY ROAD
2. ALL DE FRIEND I HAD IS DEAD AND GONE
3. ANGELS STANDIN’ IN THE WATER
4. AWFUL DEATH (DEATH IS AWFUL)
5. BORN AGAIN
6. BYE AND BYE
7. CARRY ME, BURY ME
8. CHRIST IS COMIN’ ON THE CLOUD
9. CLIMBING UP THE HILL OF MOUNT ZION
10. COME ON AN’ BOW DOWN
11. DEATH, OH DEATH
12. DON’T FEEL LIKE I’SE ANYWAYS TIRED
13. DOWN ON ME
14. DRINKIN’ WINE
15. GAMBLER WHERE WAS YOU?
16. DE GOSPEL TRAIN
17. GREAT DAY
18. HE THAT BELIEVE HAVE AN EVERLASTING HOME
19. HELL DOWN YONDER
20. (HE’S A) BATTLE-AX
21. HOLY BRIGHT NUMBER
22. I CAN’T STAY AWAY
23. I CAN’T STAY BEHIND
24. I DON’T DO NOBODY NOTHIN’
25. I GOT A HOME IN THAT ROCK I, II
26. I GOT TO STAND THERE BY MYSELF
27. I LEF’ MY HOME A-PRAYIN’ (ON MY WAY)
28. I WANT TO MOAN RIGHT ON THAT SHORE
29. I’LL ANSWER TO MY NAME
30. I’M A PILGRIM
31. I’M GONNA LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR MY LORD
32. I’M GONNA WALK AROUND IN JERDAN (TELL THE NEWS)
33. I’M LOOKIN’ FOR THAT MAN THAT DON’T KNOW JESUS
34. I’M SO GLAD I GOT MY ‘LIGION IN TIME
35. ISRAELITES SHOUTIN’ IN HEAVEN
36. IT’S COOL DOWN HERE AT THE RIVER JORDAN
37. JESUS GOIN’ MAKE MY DYIN’ BED I, II
38. JESUS WILL WALK AROUND YOUR BEDSIDE
39. (JESUS) HE KNOWS
40. JESUS’ BLOOD DONE MADE ME WHOLE
41. JOB, JOB I, II
42. JOHN (DONE) SAW THAT NUMBER
43. JORDAN DEEP AND JORDAN WIDE (I’M GWINE HOME ON THE MORNING TRAIN)
44. KEEP A-RUNNIN’FROM THE FIRE
45. LONG WAY TO TRAVEL
46. LOVE COME TWINKLIN’ DOWN
47. MIGHTY RIDER
48. MORE ROOM THERE (RUN HOME, CHILDREN)
49. MOTHERLESS CHILD SEES A HARD TIME
50. NEVER HEARD A MAN SPEAK LIKE THIS MAN
51. NEW BURYIN’ GROUND
52. NOBODY’S FAULT BUT MINE
53. ONE MORNING SOON
54. PO’ CHILD
55. POOR SINNER FARE YOU WELL
56. PREACHER STANDIN’ IN DE PULPIT
57. PURPLE DAY
58. ROCK O’ JUBILEE
59. SAMSON
60. SINNER WILL BE RUNNIN’ ON THAT GREAT DAY
61. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD II
62. STOOP DOWN AND DRINK
63. STOP AND TAKE A RIDE
64. SUN DIDN’T SHINE OUT ON BE-YONDERS MOUNTAIN
65. THIS HEART O’ MINE
66. THIS LITTLE LIGHT O’ MINE
67. TIME HAS MADE A CHANGE
68. TROUBLE IS HARD
69. WAITIN’ ON YOU
70. WE’LL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER BY AND BY
71. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THIS WORLD’S ON FIRE?
72. WHEN THE GATES SWING OPEN
73. WHEN MY BLOOD RUNS CHILLER AND COLD
74. WHY’N’T YOU SHOUT LIKE YOU KNOW YOU BOUND FOR GLORY?
75. WILL YOU MARCH DOWN
76. WON’T THAT BE A TIME
77. YOU GOTS TO MOVE

Subject: LOMAX SPIRITUALS, GOSPEL, HYMNS NOT POSTED
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:49 PM

• BORN AGAIN
• BY-AND-BY
• DRIVE OLD SATAN AWAY
• GOT TO LAY DOWN (AND DIE SOMEDAY)
• HAVE MERCY LORD (not found)
• I’M GOIN’ LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR MY LORD
• I’M GONNA WALK AROUND IN JORDAN
• JESUS IS MY ONLY FRIEND
• JOHAH
• LORD, DON’T TURN YOUR CHILD AWAY
• MY GOOD LORD DONE BEEN HERE
• MY SOUL WANTS SOMETHING NEW
• O YE PRODIGAL SON
• PREACHER STANDIN’ IN DE PULPIT
• SATAN LOST MY FADER’S KEYS
• SOMEBODY TOUCHED ME
• TILL I DIE

Subject: SPIRITUALS OTHER THAN LOMAX POSTED BY DICHO
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:57 PM

• BOUND TO GO (ALLEN AND HIGGINSON)
• BRIGHT SPARKLES IN DE CHURCHYARD (FENNER)
• DEATH’S GWINE-TER LAY HIS COLD ICY HANDS ON ME (JOHNSON AND JOHNSON) (with Death is going to lay his cold icy hands on me)
• DO LORD REMEMBER ME (WORK)
• GOD GAVE NOAH THE RAINBOW SIGN (with I got a home…) CARTER FAMILY
• GOIN’ TO SHOUT ALL OVER GOD’S HEAV’N
• HEAVEN BELL A-RING (ALLEN)
• I CAN’T STAY AWAY (WORK)
• (I WISH I HAD DIED IN EGYPT LAND)
• I NEVER INTEND TO DIE IN EGYPT LAND
• I DON’T FEEL WEARY (with Purple Day) (ALLEN)
• I HEARD FROM HEAVEN TODAY (AKA OH, PETER, GO RING DEM BELLS)
• IF I BE LIFTED UP
• JOHN SAW (DE HOLY NUMBER)
• KEEP YOUR HAND ON THAT PLOW, HOLD ON
  (posted by Amos 19-Mar- 00 in St Patrick’s Day thread) (Different version of Keep Your Hands On the Plow, in DT)
• LORD SHOW ME THE WAY (KENNEDY)
• MY LORD WHAT A MORNIN’ (VARIOUS)
• MY LORD WHAT A MORNIN’ (VARIOUS)
• OH, GIVE WAY JORDAN (FENNER, DETT)
• OH, WASN’T THAT A WIDE RIBBER? (FENNER)
• OH, WASN’T THAT A WIDE RIVER II (JOHNSON AND JOHNSON)
• OLD SHIP OF ZION I-VIII (VARIOUS)
• ONE MORE RIVER (HIGGINSON)
• RELIGION SO SWEET (ALLEN)
• SITTIN’ DOWN BY THE SIDE OF THE LORD
• THE SOCIAL BAND (ALLEN)
• SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD I ( DETT )
• TRYIN’ TO CROSS THE RED SEA (WORK)
• TURN SINNER TURN O! (ALLEN)
• WE’LL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER BY AND BY (VARIOUS)
• WHEN THE TRAIN COMES ALONG (in thread, p. 18-19)
• DE WINTER (ALLEN)
• DE WINTER’LL SOON BE OVER
  
  WORK SONG
• WAKEUP, SLEEPY (STEAMBOAT) LOMAX AND LOMAX 1939

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:11 PM

Not all the songs, Joe! Just those that were identified as spirituals. There is still a five-foot shelf of material left in the 1939 trip, on a large variety of subjects.
The site is well worth investigating because loads of ideas are there for the singer, performer, or anyone just plain interested in folk songs and how people change them around. A real portmanteau!
The materials are also a record of a culture that pretty well disappeared just a decade later, with WW II the disruptive agent.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:18 PM

You're right, Dicho. There are 686 songs in the Lomax collection. You transcribed 77 of them.
Get back to work.
[grin]
Thanks a lot, Dicho.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:25 PM

Notes. A couple listed as not posted, were posted and are on the posted list. My poor editing.
The very popular Jonah (and the Whale) is better represented elsewhere, by a wide spectrum of gospel singers, and the Lomax recording is hard to understand. Not yet in DT!.
Others were fragmentary, not understandable, or offered ideas better presented in other songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:43 PM

Of course these will all appear as clickable links in the African American Spirituals Permathread, too, with the rest of the spirituals posted at Mudcat-- as soon as I get that caught up.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Lomax Recording Trip Index
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:46 PM

Joe. Thanks for the list. I've missed some of them.

Dicho. My Tracer is bulging.*BG* I couldn't catch up with your posting.

~Masato