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10 Dec 07 - 11:13 AM (#2212505) Subject: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Gern I'm looking for both of these once-common spirituals. "I Can't Sit Down" features the line, "I just got to heaven, gotta look around." I quite possibly have either or both titles wrong. |
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10 Dec 07 - 11:44 AM (#2212518) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: GLoux Old-time string band, Big Medicine, does a great version of "I Can't Sit Down" on their "Too Old To Be Controlled" CD. They call it "Sit Down (I Can't Sit Down)". Yodel-Ay-Hee 043. -Greg |
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10 Dec 07 - 02:18 PM (#2212606) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: GUEST,Hope this is one of them. If so it is from www.akordy.sk/piesen.ltc?interpret=186&piesen=4397 I can´t sit down Oh I can't sit down I gotta keep a goin' like the flowin' of a song Oh I can't sit down I guess I'll take my honey an' her sunny smile along Today I am gay an' I'm free Oh just a bubblin,' nothin' troubblin' me Oh I can't sit down I can't sit down Happy feelin' in my bones astealin', no concealin' det is picnic day! Yeah I'm feelin' happy, I'm feelin' happy, so happy, det is picnic day! Sure is dandy, got de likker handy, Me an' Mandy Sure I'm feelin' happy, I'm feelin' happy, so happy We are on de way because it's picnic day! Oh I can't sit down I gotta keep a jumpin' like de thumpin' of a drum Oh I can't sit down I'm full of all commotion like an ocean full of rhum! Today I am gay an' I'm free Oh just a bubblin' nothin' troubblin' me Oh I'm goin' to town I can't sit down I can't sit down Oh baby I can't sit down Oh baby I can't sit down Gotta keep agoin' Keep agoin' like a song… |
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10 Dec 07 - 05:20 PM (#2212698) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Bugsy Chorus Won't you sit down Lord I can't sit down Won't you sit down Lord I can't sit down Won't you sit down Lord I Can't sit down 'Cos I just got to Heaven Got to look around Who's that yonder dressed in red Well it mus be the children that Moses led (Repeat} (Chorus) Who's that yonder dressed in white? Must be the children of the Israelite. (repeat) {Chorus} Who's that yonder dressed in black Well it mus be the hypocrites turning back (repeat) (and so on, and so forth) Cheers Bugsy |
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10 Dec 07 - 05:37 PM (#2212708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: GUEST,Bob Coltman The conventional version: GIT ON BOARD From Beatrice Landeck, "Get On Board," Edward B. Marks Music Corp 1944 CHO Git on board, little children, Git on board, little children, Git on board, little children, There's room for many a more. Gospel train am comin', I hear it close at hand, I hear the car wheels movin' And rumblin' through the land, CHO The fare is cheap and all can go, The rich and poor are there, No second class aboard dis train, No difference in de fare. But of course it's been found with other verses too. Bob |
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10 Dec 07 - 05:37 PM (#2212709) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Gern Bugsy's is the one,with interchangeable verses. How about the other, usually sung slowly, perhaps spelled "Git On Board" in the manner of "Dem Golden Slippers." |
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10 Dec 07 - 05:39 PM (#2212712) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Gern Wow! I was answered as I asked. Thanks for the help, all! |
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10 Dec 07 - 07:03 PM (#2212767) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Bugsy Glad to be of assistance Cheers Bugsy |
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10 Dec 07 - 08:35 PM (#2212805) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Q (Frank Staplin) "Get on Board" is properly titled "Gospel Train," an old spiritual sung by the Jubilee Singers. Many versions. See thread 62341: Gospel Train Also see African-American Spirituals Permathread (Link in FAQ). Steep Canyon Rangers do that 'sit down' song on Youtube" sit down It uses common floater verses that appear in several different spirituals. It may have originated with the opera "Porgy and Bess" (Gershwin), "Oh, I Can't Sit Down." |
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25 Apr 10 - 12:05 AM (#2893816) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Can't Sit Down/Get On Board From: Janie You can take a listen to Big Medicine's version at http://www.bigmedmusic.com/ The link takes you to their home page. Click on "Music". Scrolled down and click the link under the album "Too Old to Be Controlled." |