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Subject: Meeting At The Building From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 06 Mar 02 - 10:59 AM Leadbelly recorded a short version of a gospel song, Meeting At The Building, soon be over, all over this land. Does anyone have the words... not much on Leadbelly's recording, and I can't find the record that it's on. It' not on the Leadbelly's Last Sessions, which was re-issued on CDs. I've started to build my own collection of books, courtesy of Mudcat leads, but it isn't in anything I have. (I did try Digitrad, first.) If Masato or Dicho don't have them, they must not exist. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: greg stephens Date: 06 Mar 02 - 11:31 AM Well the first verse from memory is: meeting at the building,send me over, send me over, send me over,/ meeting at the builing send me over,/ all over this world./ All over this world my lordy,/all over this world,/ all over this world my lordy,/ all over this world. I think it probably continued with "crying" and then "shouting", everything else repeated, but i'm not sure. Afraid the relevant LP is stashed in an inaccessible box. Hope that helps, greg |
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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: MEETING AT THE BUILDING From: masato sakurai Date: 06 Mar 02 - 12:12 PM MEETING AT THE BUILDING
[G]Meeting at the building soon be over,
CHORUS:
Yes, preaching at the building soon be over,
Chorus
Shouting at the building...
Chorus
Lying at the building...
Chorus
(From: Moses Asche and Alan Lomax, The Leadbelly Songbook, Oak, 1962, p. 44)
For CDs containing this song, CLICK HERE. I have four (or five?) of them. ~Masato
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 06 Mar 02 - 01:15 PM Thanks, Greg & Masato: I have an l.p. somewhere with the song on it... we moved last April, and we've whittled everything down to a big stack of boxes in the garage. I imagine that, somewhere under the pyramid, I have the record. I was driving home after practice with my gospel group last night, and the song popped into my head and I sang it all the way home, figuring out harmonies and bass responses. It took Masato to verify my memory. I sang it "soon" be over, too. I dunno, Greg... considering your appreciation for American Folk Music, maybe there's a subconscious desire that someone "Send you over." Thanks for the complete listing... have to update my Leadbelly to CDs. I was very disappointed with the quality of the Smithsonian re-issue of Leadbelly's last sessions. Sounded real dead to me.
So, where's Dicho? Guess you beat him to the mouse this time, Masato... :-) Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: greg stephens Date: 07 Mar 02 - 04:28 AM Soon be over? well I was listening to the song in my head where it had lain dormant for 30 years. Yes I would like to be sent over to Louisiana.....all contributions gratefully accepted, dollars or sterling would be fine. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ALL OVER THIS WORLD From: masato sakurai Date: 09 Mar 02 - 12:50 AM Related song.
ALL OVER THIS WORLD (I)
All over this world,
Going to the graveyard soon be over,
'Burking the gospel soon be over,
All over this world,
SOURCE: Befo' De War Spirituals (1933; quoted from Peters, Lyrics of the African-American Spiritual, p. 264)
ALL OVER THIS WORLD (II)
CHORUS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
SOURCE: John W. Work, American Negro Songs (1940; Dover, p. 167; with music). The same version (2 verses only; no music) is in Work, Folk Song of the American Negro (1915; Negro Universities Press, 1969, p. 57).
Rosetta Tharpe recorded "All Over This World" in 1942 (on Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol. 2, Document DOCD-5335). ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 09 Mar 02 - 07:09 AM Thanks, Masato: I figure there must be alternate versions. When my group does children's programs (which is recent for us,) it's nice to have some old spirituals that are easy to learn. Right now, we do Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Standing on Jesus (not the civil rights remake, "Staying on Freedom," although we do a couple of verses that way to talk about the use of spirituals in the civil rights movement. We also do Who Built The Ark? which has verses, but an easy chorus to learn, and the kids have a lot of fun answering "Brother Noahey!" It's a real interesting challenge trying to give little kids living in affluence an idea of what slavery, or even poverty was/is like. We Use I Got Shoes for that, which you also provided some versions of. A modern version of that for women would be, "I got Shoes, You Got shoes, I've got 68 pairs of shoes." When I was growing up, I had shoes. One pair a year. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Mar 02 - 08:05 AM I believe Dicho is out of town on a little trip. Face it, Jerry. All the stuff you do now is really spirituals! *G* BTW I actually found a MIDI yesterday of (My Mind Was) Standin' on Jesus. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Mar 02 - 10:03 AM Posted: STANDIN' ON JESUS. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: masato sakurai Date: 09 Mar 02 - 10:18 AM Susan, it's "Woke Up Dis Mornin'" in Songs of Zion (no. 146), or "Woke Up This Mornin'" in African American Heritage Hymnal (no. 566). ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Meeting At The Building From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Mar 02 - 12:10 PM OK. Will you post the alternate (*G* correct) versions over in that thread then, and list the titles (and URL) in the Permathread? ~S~ |
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