Lyr Req: Time Is Winding Up (Hazel Dickens)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Time Is Winding Up (Hazel Dickens)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 12:49 AM

There's also a recording by Babe Stovall on Folk Festival of the Smokies, Vol II [that's Two, not Eleven], Traditional Records FFS 529 (vinyl). He sings it at about twice the tempo of the recording on O Sister! And he plays his guitar while holding it behind his head and turning his back to the audience (and the microphones), resulting in what the liner notes refer to as a "compromise in sound quality".

Subject: Lyr Add: TIME IS WINDING UP (from Hazel Dickens)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 May 04 - 10:17 PM

It's a great song, but there's not much to the lyrics:

Time, time, time is winding up.
Time, time, time is winding up.
Time, time, time is winding up.
Your time is winding up.

Brother, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Brother, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Brother, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Your time is winding up

Father, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Father, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Father, you better be praying
For time is winding up
Your time is winding up

Time, time, time is winding up.
Time, time, time is winding up.
Time, time, time is winding up.
Your time is winding up.

It's on the Rounder Heart of a Singer CD by Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones, and Ginny Hawker. The same recording is on the Rounder O Sister collection.

It's a "keeper," but the words can be memorized in about 3-1/2 seconds.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Time is Winding Up- Hazel Dickens
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 May 04 - 04:15 PM

The old blues-gospel tune "Time Is Winding Up", title used in a speech by Martin Luther King, sung by Otis Thames, is here: Time Is Winding Up

Possibly inspired by the old spiritual. "Time is Drawing Nigh."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Time is Winding Up- Hazel Dickens
From: AnneMC
Date: 11 May 04 - 03:35 PM

Thanks, BanjoRay.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Time is Winding Up- Hazel Dickens
From: BanjoRay
Date: 10 May 04 - 12:26 PM

They (Hazel, Ginny and Carol-Elizabeth) sound as though they're singing in a modal key - Ami, G and maybe C would be good chords to try out on it.
Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Time is Winding Up- Hazel Dickens
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 May 04 - 05:41 AM

Subject: Lyr/Chord Req: Time is Winding Up- Hazel Dickens
From: AnneMC
Date: 09 May 04 - 06:29 AM

Has anyone the lyrics for "Time is Winding Up" as sung by Hazel Dickens, and is the tune usually in simple chords or in minor keys ? (Helps to enthuse my guitar playing accompanist if i give him some idea of the chords - I don't play guitar myself. )
Thanks,
Anne