Lyr Add: Rainbow 'Round His Shoulders

Subject: Lyr Add: Rainbow 'Round His Shoulders
From: GUEST,JB3
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 01:44 AM

We are waiting for the boatman, We're waiting for the boatman, Lord
We're waiting for the boatman, who rose from Calvary

And we'll all go together, We'll all go together
To see the Lord Jesus walking on a cloud
With a Rainbow 'Round His Shoulders

O, Fathers are you ready, Fathers are you ready, Lord
O, Fathers are you ready and don't you want to go

And we'll all go...

Repeat for Mothers, Sisters, etc., and end with the "waiting for the boatman" verse and a last chorus


This is a great camp-meeting song, believe I heard it from Jean Ritchie. The tune is the same as Seneca Square Dance, but AB instead of AABB in form.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rainbow 'Round His Shoulders
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 11:00 PM

Oh! How lovely! And I know the tune, too!

Thanks!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rainbow 'Round His Shoulders
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 11:10 PM

Hear the tune at HONKINGDUCK as fiddled by Fiddlin' Dave Neal.   

Recording: Challenge 301
Date Issued: January 1927
Side: B
Title: Seneca Square Dance
Recording Date: Unknown

Grab a MIDI of it at Ed Hetzler's wonderful site of fiddle tunes in MIDI format.

~Susan