Subject: RE: Need lyrics Beulah Land - Gillian Welch From: GUEST Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:14 PM Excellent! Thanks folks ... with your help, I was able to piece it together. I have the Avalon Blues CD ... but I am hearing impaired, and cannot understand lyrics unless I have them written so I can see them. I'm a big Gillian Welch fan, and that song was so hauntingly beautiful I just HAD to know the lyrics. |
Subject: RE: Need lyrics Beulah Land - Gillian Welch From: Peace Date: 14 Dec 05 - 09:31 PM I got a mother in de Beulah Land, Outshine the sun, outshine the sun, outshine the sun; I got a mother in de Beulah Land, Outshine the sun, far beyond the sun. The above snippet from docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lomax/lomax.html |
Subject: RE: Need lyrics Beulah Land - Gillian Welch From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:14 PM The album is "Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt," Vanguard CD 79582, 2001. I listened to a sound sample, and the words I heard Gillian Welch singing are:
I got a mother in Beulah land that outshines the sun. I got a mother in Beulah land, way beyond the sky. Oh, come on and go to Beulah land and outshine the sun. Come on and go to Beulah land and outshine the sun. Come on, go to Beulah land, way beyond the sky. I got a... |
Subject: RE: Need lyrics Buelah Land - Gillian Welch From: GUEST Date: 13 Dec 05 - 05:51 PM OK ... thanks Q ... I'll check back at a later date. It's a beautiful, haunting version. |
Subject: RE: Need lyrics Buelah Land - Gillian Welch From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 13 Dec 05 - 05:45 PM Original hymn posted in thread 37937: Sweet Beulah Land Also thread 15101: Beulah Dwelling in Beulah Land in the DT. Unless someone will post the lyrics from "Avalon Blues," we don't have her version. Copyright keeps it off free internet. |
Subject: Need lyrics Beulah Land - Gillian Welch From: GUEST,John Eddy Date: 13 Dec 05 - 05:26 PM Hi Folks ~ finally found a tune I can't locate lyrics to. Thought I'd check here ... TIA. The tune is called "Beulah Land" by Gillian Welch. I believe she recorded it on a tribute albumb to Mississippi John Hurt ... Avalon Blues? |
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