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11 Sep 01 - 12:51 AM (#546788) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DONE MADE MY VOW TO THE LORD From: wysiwyg See also DONE MADE MY VOW in songbook LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING. ~S~ DONE MADE MY VOW TO THE LORD Traditional Negro Spiritual REFRAIN: Done made my vow to the Lord And I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go To see what the end will be. Done opened my mouth to the Lord And I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go To see what the end will be. VERSES: LEADER: Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, PEOPLE: See what the end will be. LEADER: But still my soul is heav'nly bound PEOPLE: See what the end will be. LEADER: I'll pray and pray and never stop, PEOPLE: See what the end will be. PEOPLE: Until I reach the mountain top, PEOPLE: See what the end will be. LEADER: If you get there before I do, PEOPLE: See what the end will be. LEADER: Tell all my friends I'm coming too, PEOPLE: See what the end will be. SOURCE: American Negro Songs, 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular. John W. Work, Dover Publications, Mineola, NY 1998. Orig. pub. Crown Publishers, NY, 1940. ISBN 0-486-40271-1. @spirituals SH E-mailing tune to Joe Offer for inclusion in Mudcat MIDI pages (see QUICKLINKS).
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11 Sep 01 - 01:22 AM (#546795) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DONE MADE MY VOW TO THE LORD From: masato sakurai The tune is somewhat similar to "Go Down, Moses," so the two may be related. The line "sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down" is also used in "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See." Jeanette Thompson (soprano) sings "Done Made My Vow" (arr. E. Boatner) in her album Negro Spirituals (Pavane Records ADW 7267), in a slow and mournful way. Masato
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10 Feb 09 - 11:42 AM (#2562810) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DONE MADE MY VOW TO THE LORD From: wysiwyg Also on the late Thea Bowman's out of print audiotape, Thea Bowman - Songs of My People. Moving rendition. Putting this in my travel-and-sing set. I've written about her elsewhwere at the Cat-- this song, she LIVED. ~Susan |
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10 Feb 09 - 10:16 PM (#2563394) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Done Made My Vow to the Lord From: Q (Frank Staplin) Recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (Album title "Fisk Jubilee Singers"), on Folkways Records. The sound is poor. (Omitted from "Index to Negro Spirituals," Cleveland Public Library, CBMR Monographs, No. 3.) |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:46 PM (#3396759) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Done Made My Vow to the Lord From: GUEST,Real Lyrics those are not the real lyrics the are. |
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28 Aug 12 - 11:49 PM (#3396797) Subject: ADD Version: Done Made My Vow to the Lord From: Joe Offer I came across a version of this recorded by a women's quartet called "Meta Four." The song is basically this chorus sung over and over: Done made my vow to the Lord And I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go Since I have been set free. Done made my vow to the Lord And I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go Since I have been set free. -Joe- |
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29 Aug 12 - 03:01 PM (#3397141) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Done Made My Vow to the Lord From: Q (Frank Staplin) "I Made a Vow to the Lord" is the title of several variants. I made a vow to the Lord I made, a vow to the Lord I promised him I'd go Every step of the way I made, I made, I made I made, I made a vow To the Lord, Oh yes I did. Sometimes, O Satan Gets on my track Don't you know he tries So many times to turn me back But I know I've got to go on And stand up to my test For I made a vow I got down on my knees One Sunday morning to the Lord. Did you make a vow to the Lord Did you make, a vow to the Lord Did you promise him You'll go every step of the way Did you promise the Lord that you would run every step of the way'I made a vow I made a vow. Gospel Keynotes, Juanita Bynum, on youtube and lyrics on the net. Also Regina McCrary with the B C and M Mass Choir on youtube. |